A true liberal arts education is meant to introduce students to a wide variety of thoughts, and professors are supposed to be the well-intentioned and informed mediators of discussion. However, it is very...
Colleges and universities nationwide are in the midst of an adjunct crisis, coinciding with skyrocketing operating costs and burgeoning student debt in higher education. Numerous studies suggest that the...
Despite rapid growth in the technology industry, there is only one woman for every three men employed in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics job.
The Sit With Me initiative hopes to...
After the expulsion of rape survivor Willa Murphy this summer, campus has rung with calls for sexual assault reform. Student activists at the forefront of this charge have presented the university with...
Well folks, here we are.
It’s the end of the semester, the end of the year, and for some graduating next month, the end of an era of education as they are off to the real world. Copley Lawn is finally...
One year after President Barack Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative promoting education of young men of color, an initial White House report reflecting on the program’s first year concluded...
Fr. Ryan Maher, S.J., an associate dean in the College from 2001 to 2012, taught me about a particular mission of Jesuit education. In his role as a dean, he didn’t color inside the lines or stick to...
In an essay that was excerpted from his 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, and published in Foreign Affairs Magazine, Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard Kennedy School first...
With the noted inadequacy of the funding and scope of our sexual health resources, students have commenced a campaign to hire a program assistant for Health Education Services and the Women’s Center....
This February, my students are joining their peers across the country to celebrate Black History Month.
They saw the movie “Selma”, shared their personal stories and have been asked to discuss...
Washington, D.C.’s pervasive inequality manifests itself primarily in income and educational gaps, according to a series of reports released over the past few weeks.
A report analyzing the financial...
“You’re in ROTC? Do you know so-and-so?”
“No... I’m in Navy ROTC.”
“I didn’t know Georgetown had a navy program.”
“Well actually, it doesn’t.”
This conversation...
