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Georgetown Scholars Program Celebrates First-Generation, Low-Income Students During GSProud Week

Georgetown Scholars Program Celebrates First-Generation, Low-Income Students During GSProud Week

By Anna Lim November 10, 2023

Georgetown Scholars Program (GSP) hosted their annual GSProud Week campaign from Nov. 5 to Nov. 10 to focus on increasing first-generation, low-income (FGLI) student visibility on campus.  GSP...

VIEWPOINT: Expose the Hidden Curriculum

VIEWPOINT: Expose the Hidden Curriculum

By Madison Fox-Moore December 2, 2022

It is no secret that, as a university with more students from the top 1% of the income scale than the bottom 60%, Georgetown University’s wealth distribution greatly favors the upper class. While Georgetown...

VIEWPOINT: Learn Beyond the Classroom

VIEWPOINT: Learn Beyond the Classroom

By Liz Fieschko May 15, 2020

When I first came to Georgetown University, I thought the whole point was the classes I would take. I pushed myself to read all the readings, which led me to spend all my weekends on the lovely third...

VIEWPOINT: Holding On to Home

By Celine Calpo November 13, 2018

The most heart-wrenching moment of my life was right after new student convocation, when my mom told me that she and my dad were “not as smart” as I am. The two of them had tickets for seats in...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Multicultural Equity and Access Director Charlene Brown-McKenzie (C 95) (left) facilitated a panel of Community Scholars Program alumni at an event honoring the programs 50th anniversary Oct. 5.

Community Scholars Program Celebrates 50 Years

By Meena Morar October 19, 2018

Since the Community Scholars Program was first proposed in 1964, it has grown from a small, faculty-funded program supporting five local students to a large institutional presence serving at least...

REYES & SORTO: Closing the Knowledge Gap

REYES & SORTO: Closing the Knowledge Gap

By Renzo Reyes and Luis Sorto April 19, 2018

Although we came from different backgrounds, we are often reminded that as first-generation students from immigrant households, our paths to Georgetown University shared many similarities. Growing up,...

PERALTA: Hopes of an Incoming Hoya

By J. Martin Peralta April 10, 2018

I never imagined I would one day have the opportunity to attend my dream college. My parents migrated to a small border town in southern Arizona from northern Mexico in the late 1990s, when they were...

VIEWPOINT: My Unexpected Path to Georgetown

By Amanda Scott October 5, 2017

If you were raised in an upper — or middle — class family and your parents went to college, think about what your family and school counselors told you about college growing up. You were likely...

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Finding a Home on the Hilltop With GSP

By Eleanor Tolf September 8, 2017

Eleanor Tolf is a Hoya Staff Writer. Every year, hardworking, high-achieving students arrive on Georgetown’s campus anxious about the costs of higher education. Around 10 percent of Georgetown’s...

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