Category: Academics and Faculty

The School of Foreign Service School Council has accepted the second of two SFS Academic Council proposals concerning the revised Map of the Modern World curriculum.

The Georgetown University Faculty Senate held a main campus caucus meeting Monday afternoon in the Leavey Center to discuss its stance regarding faculty rights to external activities, which include professional or academic consultations outside of the university.

NHS Dean Bette Jacobs will step down at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year, according to an e-mail sent to faculty and staff by University President John J. DeGioia today. Jacobs, who has served as dean since 1999, will remain at Georgetown as a professor in the NHS and as a distinguished scholar at the O’Neill Institute, DeGioia said.

At the beginning of the spring 2010 pre-registration period, which began Monday, nearly 200 undergraduate courses — almost one in every five courses — lacked descriptions and syllabuses on the registrar’s Web site.

Jeff Reid has been named director of entrepreneurial studies in the McDonough School of Business. Reid will also lead the development of the MSB’s Real Estate Initiative.

Fr. Thomas King, S.J., a respected member of the Georgetown community for 41 years, died suddenly from a heart attack at 5:30 p.m in Wolfington Hall on Tuesday at age 80.

Updated: 2:33 p.m. on Sept. 25.

Plans to chart a new path for Map of the Modern World drew criticism from students and alumni after the director of the SFS undergraduate program presented a revised syllabus to the Curriculum Committee last Friday.

Updated at 3:48 p.m. on Sept. 22.

The School of Foreign Service Curriculum Committee was presented with significant changes to the Map of the Modern World syllabus on Friday. The changes are planned to take effect in the spring of 2010, overhauling a course that has come to define the SFS undergraduate experience.

Three Law Center professors have been appointed by President Obama to posts in his administration, bringing the number of officials in the administration who have taught at Georgetown Law to nine.

In the wake of professor Ahmad Dallal’s departure to become provost of the American University of Beirut, professor John Voll will take his place as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies.