The School of Continuing Studies’ Sports Industry Management program’s partnership with professional soccer team FC Barcelona continued in July with a trip to Barcelona and a meeting with team executives. Daniel Kelly, the faculty director of the Sports Industry Management program, said in an interview with The Hoya that[Read More…]
Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies kicked off its collaboration with Spanish soccer giants FC Barcelona to advance education, leadership and research in the field of sports management. The first event in the partnership, announced last month, was a symposium hosted July 26 at the school’s downtown campus. Soccer Leadership[Read More…]
The Georgetown School of Continuing Studies finalized a partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to provide scholarship benefits to current federal employees, the university announced in a press release Tuesday. The scholarship benefits for federal civil servants applying to the SCS cover 10 percent of tuition costs each[Read More…]
Former University Registrar John Q. Pierce (CAS ’72) announced in a Jan. 8 email to the Georgetown community that he has left the position of registrar and will instead serve as an assistant provost in the registrar’s office before retiring at the end of the spring semester. Pierce has worked[Read More…]
Fr. Richard Curry, S.J., professor of Catholic studies and theater and founder of Dog Tag Bakery, died from heart failure Dec. 20 at the age of 72. Curry worked at Georgetown for 10 years. Curry also served as director of the Academy for Veterans, a program that serves to assist[Read More…]
The School of Continuing Studies stands out among peer institutions with its professional program offerings that develop students’ skillsets and foster creative thinking. The new facilitation concentration — aimed at current facilitators, leadership coaches and human resource professionals — provides facilitation training to students through classroom instruction, reading and reflection[Read More…]
Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership at the School of Continuing Studies will debut the certificate in facilitation — a three-month workshop that teaches the skills needed to oversee workplace meetings — next semester as the first certificate in higher education of its kind. According to Program Coordinator Kathryn Wade, SCS administrators[Read More…]
The School of Continuing Studies has launched a new master’s in hospitality management program to keep pace with the District of Columbia’s growing hospitality industry, including the highly anticipated Trump Hotel that will take over the former Old Post Office Pavilion in 2015. The program, which is accepting applicants for[Read More…]
As the federal government shutdown continues. the School of Continuing Studies is offering classes to all furloughed federal employees, free of charge, beginning today. “Central to our mission is service to the community, particularly as we establish ourselves as good neighbors in our new downtown location,” Interim Dean of the[Read More…]
One month after opening a larger downtown space, the School of Continuing Studies announced a new master’s program in systems engineering management — its first course of study in a “STEM” discipline. The master’s program, scheduled to launch in fall 2014, is a partnership with the Stevens Institute of Technology[Read More…]
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