The Executive Faculty has approved another set of recommendations made last March by the Committee on Intellectual Life, continuing a process that has been ongoing for 12 months to strengthen academic culture on campus.

Many of Georgetown’s graduate schools gained a larger share of national recognition last week after moving up in this year’s U.S. News and World Report rankings of top graduate schools.

The Georgetown University School of Medicine climbed four spots and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and McDonough School of Business both rose three places in this year’s rankings.

A new nursing scholarship by the Georgetown University Medical Center and Washington Hospital Center aims to bring on more applicants and to combat the increasing national shortage of nurses.

Theology professor Chester Gillis was named interim dean of Georgetown College for one year yesterday, filling the post that will be vacated by current Dean Jane McAuliffe on July 1.

University Provost James O’Donnell said that Georgetown will launch a nationwide search for a permanent dean this summer.

After falling in a recent business school ranking, the McDonough School of Business has taken steps to address relatively low student satisfaction rates by forming student focus groups commissioned to pinpoint the problems.

Georgetown is looking to become a new training ground for budding George Steinbrenners with the kick-off of the School of Continuing Studies’s sports management program this fall.

University President John J. DeGioia defended the academic integrity of a Georgetown center funded largely by a Saudi prince after a congressman claimed that the center may be partial to Saudi Arabia.

Anthropology professors are looking to separate the program from its sociology counterpart after seeing the major's increasing popularity in recent years.

Forty-four students are currently majoring in the social science since the program was established only four years ago. In response to its growth, many anthropology professors have also initiated a push to become an independent department.