While some Georgetown students spent their spring break in exotic locations around the world and some stayed on campus to study for upcoming midterms, 12 Georgetown students had the opportunity to learn and travel with the Border Awareness Experience trip in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the role the United States must play to improve humanitarian aid worldwide in the Third Annual Fritz Institute Lecture on Humanitarian Relief yesterday morning in Gaston Hall.
Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.
“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.
The Living Wage Coalition united 24 student organizations in a rally in Red Square yesterday to express support for the effort to raise the “poverty-level” wages of subcontracted workers.
After spending the past four years at Georgetown as the Director of International Programs and leading a multi-university research project to measure the effects of study abroad on students, Dr. Michael Vande Berg will leave Georgetown in April.
Georgetown’s new Doctor of Liberal Studies program, a PhD degree, will accept the first 10 students ever to pursue such a degree in North America beginning in fall 2005.
The “Re-Imagining Service at Georgetown” initiative and “The Run for Rigby” project have been awarded $2,500 and $1,500 respectively to subsidize their goals for the coming year.
Georgetown undergraduate early admissions have recovered from last year’s temporary decline in applications, according to statistics released by University admissions officials earlier this month.
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