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CSJ Awards Two Students Erica Pincus Scholarships

CSJ Awards Two Students Erica Pincus Scholarships

By Evie Steele March 24, 2023

The Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service (CSJ) awarded Sarah Tyree (CAS ’24) and Miray Samuel (CAS ’25) on March 15 the Legacy of Erica Pincus scholarship, centered on community...

Georgetown Students Honored As Education and Social Justice Fellows

Georgetown Students Honored As Education and Social Justice Fellows

By Evie Steele February 25, 2023

Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service (CSJ) and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs named four Georgetown students this year as their...

Georgetown Center for Social Justice Adapts to Zoom Tutoring

Georgetown Center for Social Justice Adapts to Zoom Tutoring

By Marisa Kiley October 29, 2020

Because the Georgetown University Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service moved its Washington, D.C.-area tutoring services online this semester, student tutors worry tutees’ limited...

Mayor Issues 1st Hypothermia Alert for This Season

Mayor Issues 1st Hypothermia Alert for This Season

By Curran Stockton November 8, 2019

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) issued the season’s first hypothermia alert Nov. 1, as the wind chill dropped the temperatures into the low 30s overnight. The city issues hypothermia alerts...

KIKI SCHMALFUS/THE HOYA | The shuttered UPS in Poulton Hall will be fully incorporated into the Center for Social Justices office and meeting space.

CSJ Renovations to Grow Office and Meeting Space

By Katrina Schmidt September 13, 2019

Extensive renovations to the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service’s home in Poulton Hall will be completed in October, providing expanded space for CSJ programs and staff.  Once...

SINGH & BEAUSOLEIL: An Ode to the Underappreciated at Georgetown

SINGH & BEAUSOLEIL: An Ode to the Underappreciated at Georgetown

By Hashwinder Singh and Khendrick Beausoleil August 13, 2017

While writing this, our final column of the summer, we recognized that in describing our experiences as students of color, we have been forced to reflect upon the highs and lows of our freshman year at...

Civil rights activists and Black Lives Matter activists engaged in a panel discussion as part of a day of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s Beyond Vietnam speech. (JEANINE SANTUCCI/THE HOYA)

Speakers Urge Greater Awareness of University Role in Social Justice

By Jeanine Santucci April 11, 2017

On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, speakers called for a greater awareness of the university’s role in addressing racism in the United States in...

Professors Launch Working Class Studies Minor Proposal

By Emily Tu November 13, 2015

Several faculty members are collaborating with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor to develop an undergraduate Labor and Working-Class Studies, which they aim to begin offering in...

Common Core Yet to Raise DCPS Results

By Aly Pachter November 3, 2015

Twenty-five percent of D.C. Public Schools 10th-graders who took the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers in English and 10 percent of students who took the test in geometry...

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The second annual 5K Race Against Homelessness, which took place Saturday, returned with more than 300 participants this year.

Social Justice Race Returns

By Susannah Price October 20, 2015

More than 300 members of the Georgetown community participated in the second annual 5K Race Against Homelessness, a charity event hosted by the Georgetown Ministry Center and the Center for Social Justice,...

Task Force Tackles Hypothermia

By Emma Rizk April 10, 2015

“DHS reports the Hypothermia Alert will remain on.” The message from the District of Columbia AlertDC system is casual, and for most students, it simply signifies another cold winter night. For...

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Center for Social Justice Associate Director Ray Shiu spoke at the 30th anniversary dinner for the pre-orientation program FOCI.

FOCI Program Marks 30 Years

By Patricja Okuniewska March 31, 2015

Thirty years ago, 14 students and seven leaders embarked on the inaugural First Year Orientation to Community Involvement program at Georgetown University. Put together by the Center for Social Justice...

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