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Janet Zhu

Degrees Bought in Bulk

By The Editorial Board September 23, 2014

The looming specters of debt and the difficulty of finding a job can be thoroughly potent in dissuading students from committing even more money and time to a graduate degree. While these are harsh...

Reconsidering the Humanities Crisis, Part I

Reconsidering the Humanities Crisis, Part I

By Paul Healy May 29, 2014

Over the past year, the humanities have come under close scrutiny in our public discourse. Last summer, Harvard released a report that showed a decline in enrollment in humanities majors. In January,...

Gen Ed Adds Missing Link

By The Editorial Board October 23, 2012

As Georgetown reexamines its general education requirements for English, the proposal under consideration entails an obligatory first-year writing seminar and a broader array of options for fulfilling...

National College Tuition Costs Sees Slow Growth

By Kelly Church October 19, 2012

The rise of college tuition costs has slowed to its lowest rate in 40 years, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The survey, the results...

SULLIVAN: What’s in a Name? For Spaces, Quite a Bit

By Kevin Sullivan October 16, 2012

Space at Georgetown is always in short supply, and for better or for worse this constraint has shaped our history in many ways. The history of our great space disasters and triumphs alone could fill a...

In College Admissions, Facebook Now a Factor

By Ted Murphy October 16, 2012

Admissions officers are checking Facebook pages and Google search results of potential applicants with higher frequency than ever previously reported. A Kaplan Test Prep survey released Oct. 4 found...

Fine-Tuning Spaces For Music Stars to Flourish

By The Editorial Board October 28, 2011

It's time for our campus to face the music — and that means providing students with the room to hear it. While a host of undergraduate music groups like to jam out — including a small army of a...

Mendelson Slams GU Campus Plan

By Braden McDonald September 23, 2011

Councilmember At-Large Phil Mendelson denounced Georgetown's 2010 Campus Plan in a Sept. 16 letter to the D. C. Zoning Commission. In the letter, Mendelson claimed that Georgetown's 40 percent enrollment...

Tables Turned: Learning From Undergraduates

By Paul Musgrave February 15, 2011

When it comes to running a student government, graduate students could learn a lot from Georgetown undergraduates. As a Ph.D. student in political science, I find most political life interesting, be...

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