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Ferretti, Badger Reflect on a Term Filled With New Advocacy and Unprecedented Challenges

By Noa Bronicki November 12, 2020

Despite facing a host of new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ferretti-Badger administration says it has stayed committed to advocating for students, addressing both current student needs...

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Parent Facebook Group Goads University To Reopen in Spring, Attacks Community Compact

By Moira Ritter and Claire Stowe November 6, 2020

As the community awaits Georgetown University’s spring semester plans, a group of parents now call not only for students to live on campus this spring but also for Georgetown to cease enforcing its...

Georgetown Aims to Bring More Students Back To Campus this Spring, GUSA Reports

Georgetown Aims to Bring More Students Back To Campus this Spring, GUSA Reports

By Ella Castanier November 2, 2020

Georgetown University plans to bring back more undergraduate students and release another round of housing applications for the spring 2021 semester, according to Georgetown University Student Association...

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Anxious Students Weigh Spring Housing Plans

By Claire Stowe October 30, 2020

KASSIDY ANGELO/THE HOYA | Georgetown’s Office of Residential Living sent an email update to all on-campus students Oct. 28 notifying them of their automatic approval for spring on-campus housing. While...

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University Yet to Bolster Funding, Personnel at Academic Resource Center in Month 8 of Hiring Freeze

By Katie Bootsma October 29, 2020

The university has not provided the Academic Resource Center the funding and employees it needs to serve the Georgetown University community as the universitywide hiring freeze enters its eighth month,...

KIRK ZIESER/THE HOYA | The summer semester at Georgetown is split into two 6-week sessions, with the first having begun on May 18 and the second set to begin June 29.

GU Provides Extra Financial Support for Faculty Juggling Work, Caregiving Responsibilities

By Kelly Anderson October 23, 2020

Following firm pressure from dozens of faculty members, Georgetown University expanded its emergency stipend for faculty and staff who are incurring extra caregiving costs because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  In...

Uncertainty Looms Over Spring Study Abroad as COVID-19 Remains Global Threat

Uncertainty Looms Over Spring Study Abroad as COVID-19 Remains Global Threat

By Kelly Anderson October 22, 2020

Georgetown University students who hope to study abroad spring 2021 face uncertainty about whether their study abroad plans will be complicated by coronavirus-related travel restrictions.  Although...

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GU Parents Pressure University To Bring Students Back for Spring Semester

By Moira Ritter October 22, 2020

Georgetown University parents have flooded social media and administrators’ inboxes with messages urging the university to reopen campus for Zoom-weary students in the spring.  The effort...

GUSA Voices Support for GAGE Amid Ongoing Dispute Between Union and University

GUSA Voices Support for GAGE Amid Ongoing Dispute Between Union and University

By Ella Castanier October 9, 2020

Amid a continuing contractual dispute between Georgetown University's graduate student union and the administration, the Georgetown University Student Association Senate rallied to support the union’s...

GU Nursing Students Juggle Health Concerns, Academic Commitments

GU Nursing Students Juggle Health Concerns, Academic Commitments

By Claire Stowe October 8, 2020

While most Georgetown University students are taking classes at home, Alice Lei (NHS ’22), a nursing major, not only returned to campus but spends 16 hours a week in a local hospital fulfilling clinical...

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Liberal Arts Education Counteracts Authoritarianism in Universities and Politics, GU Report Says

By Daya Benami Narasimhan October 2, 2020

Postsecondary education can have a crucial role in suppressing authoritarian tendencies, particularly in the United States, according to a report published by a nonprofit research and policy institute...

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Georgetown Student Tenant Association To Revive Operations Amid Student Housing Difficulties

By Harrison Lee October 2, 2020

The Georgetown Student Tenant Association plans to enhance its operations to aid students experiencing housing uncertainty and grappling with untenable leases because of the COVID-19 pandemic. After...

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