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Georgetown University campus tour guides will no longer read Indigenous land acknowledgements during tours following new guidance from the Office of Admissions.

GU Admissions Ends Campus Tour Guide Land Acknowledgments

By Ajani Stella and Maren Fagan • October 9, 2025

Georgetown University’s admissions office directed student tour guides to stop giving land acknowledgments during their tours, according to multiple sources and emails obtained by The Hoya.  The...

COURTESY ALEX MITCHELL David Patou (COL ’18) and Alex Mitchell (COL ’18) founded Campus Sherpa fall 2014. The company has spread to more than 60 college campuses and employs 400 part-time student tour guides.

Startup Personalizes the College Tour

By Léa Nicolas • October 16, 2015

Prospective college students can now personalize one-on-one campus tours with Campus Sherpa, a for-profit tour guide company founded and run by Alex Mitchell (COL ’18) and David Patou (COL ’18)....

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