Category: On Campus

The deadlines for progress reports from the three working groups of the Diversity Initiative launched last April by President John J. DeGioia have been revised, but the groups have made progress toward meeting their goals.

Kicking off a week of festivities, speaker events and a reconstruction of the Berlin Wall in Red Square and the Intercultural Center, Georgetown began its celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday.

As Georgetown’s annual Take Back the Night week begins, the university’s first Rape Aggression Defense course ended on Saturday.

A UNICEF official spoke about a children’s health initiative at UNICEF-Georgetown’s seventh International Development Dinner on Friday in Copley Formal Lounge.

Former University President Leo J. O’Donovan commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech in Riggs Library last night.

The locks on the rear doors of some university-owned townhouses may compromise residents’ safety, according to student residents and an official in the D.C. Fire Marshal’s office.

With the center in place, GU Pride and other student groups, including the Georgetown Solidarity Committee and Take Back the Night, have seen their goal from two years ago — to have a prominent voice and a safe space on campus — institutionalized at Georgetown.

Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, in partnership with The Center for Child and Human Development, will initiate a new interdisciplinary program on Disability Studies.

Faculty and student panelists discussed the need for a different conceptual approach to disabilities at a conference in McShain Lounge on Thursday.

The Senate Finance Committee endorsed health care legislation earlier this month that may impact the future of the university’s health care plan.