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Georgetown College will consider giving department status to the womens and gender studies program.

Students Submit Proposal for Women’s and Gender Studies Department

By Katrina Schmidt October 13, 2017

A proposal advocating that the women’s and gender studies program gain department status by fall 2018 was submitted Tuesday by students hoping to expand the program’s resources. The student-led...

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Commencement 2017

By Online Editor May 27, 2017

More than 6,000 students graduated in 10 commencement ceremonies last week, including over 1,800 undergraduates in the Georgetown College, School of Foreign Service, McDonough School of Business, and...

Commencement Speakers Present Varied Experiences

By Jeff Cirillo May 19, 2017

Yesterday’s senior convocation and the McCourt School of Public Policy’s commencement ceremony marked the official beginning of the 2017 graduation season — the crowning event for students nearing...

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University President John J. DeGioia announced the appointment of Christopher S. Celenza as the new dean for the Georgetown College starting July 1.

New College Dean Looks to Balance Tradition With Innovation

By Ian Scoville and Tara Subramaniam March 15, 2017

Christopher S. Celenza, who will start as the next dean of the College on July 1, is looking to balance maintaining Georgetown’s traditions with a need to prepare students for an uncertain future. “On...

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University President John J. DeGioia announced the appointment of Christopher S. Celenza as the new dean for the Georgetown College starting July 1.

University Appoints New Dean for College

By Ian Scoville March 2, 2017

Christopher S. Celenza, the vice provost for faculty affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will serve as the next dean of the Georgetown College starting July 1, according to a campuswide email from...

Cousteau Advocates Legacy Building, Environmental Protection

By Molly Simio May 26, 2016

Environmentalist and explorer Alexandra Cousteau (COL ’98) encouraged graduates to take control of their own legacies, maintain a sense of wonder and preserve the planet in a commencement address...

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College Dean Chester Gillis recently announced he would step down in June 2017. He plans on taking a yearlong sabbatical before returning to Georgetown’s theology department.

Gillis Reflects on Term

By Sarah Griffin April 5, 2016

From hosting intimate conversations with first-year students over dinner at his home to promoting increased racial awareness through the development of an African American studies major, College Dean...

Rose Encourages Boldness, Hard Work

By Emily Tu May 16, 2015

In journalist Charlie Rose’s commencement address to the Georgetown College Class of 2015, he encouraged graduates to seize the opportunities available to them and live life fully. Before his...

College Considers Restructuring Academic Credits

By Kelsey Quackenbush February 20, 2015

The College Academic Council held a town hall meeting with a panel of administrators and professors from Georgetown College on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of changing Georgetown’s standard academic...

GILLIS: Liberal Arts Lay a Flexible Groundwork

By Chester Gillis January 13, 2015

In a period when some question the value of the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences, we in the College Dean’s office want to share our perspective. We write from years (and in many cases decades)...

College Scraps Unpopular Classes Before Add-Drop

By Toby Hung November 18, 2014

The Office of the College Dean has instructed department heads to delete courses that do not meet an eight-student enrollment minimum during pre-registration in order to minimize costs and inefficiency,...

GU Launches Government BA/MA Program

By Gene Choi October 21, 2014

The government department established a new democracy and governance B.A./M.A. program, allowing undergraduate students to graduate in five years with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in a specific...

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