Archive: Featured
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Singing Through the Jail Phone: Inmates and Undergrads Learn About Music Behind Bars
WAMU Arts and Culture Reporter Mikaela Lefrak sat in on Professor Ben Harbert’s “Music in U.S. Prisons” Community-Based Learning course this past spring, and reports, …
August 6, 2018
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DC Reads Celebrates 20 Years of Tutoring, Advocacy
The university’s Center for Social Justice launched the program in 1997 in response to Congress’s passing of the America Reads Challenge Act, a law intended to improve…
October 13, 2017
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Empowering Women and Youth Through Storytelling: 2016 and 2017 Projects for Peace
Students from among the Davis United World College Scholar Program partner schools are selected to carry out their proposed projects. The program, which is coordinated at…
August 18, 2017
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Working for the Common Good: Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference Includes Georgetown Delegation
A Georgetown delegation of 16 students, faculty and staff joined hundreds of representatives from U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities last week to explore how institutions can…
August 16, 2017
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Speakers Urge Greater Awareness of University Role in Social Justice
On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, speakers called for a greater awareness of the university’s role in addressing racism in…
April 11, 2017
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Red Cloud High School teams with Georgetown Prep and Georgetown University, advocating to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline
While in Washington D.C. with the first delegation from Red Cloud High School ever to attend the Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice, four students from the Jesuit-run high…
December 5, 2016
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University Wins Interfaith Honor
The White House selected Georgetown as the winner of its Interfaith Community Service Award from a group of 766 colleges and universities, the university announced last.…
November 8, 2016
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Georgetown Earns Prestigious White House Honor for Interfaith Community Service
The university has won the White House’s Interfaith Community Service Award for fostering meaningful relationships among its community members of differing faiths and…
October 31, 2016
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Center for Social Justice in the Summer
40 percent of the students who participate in programs offered by the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service come from Georgetown College. We sat down with…
October 26, 2016
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VIEWPOINT: Inspired to Go Beyond Our Front Gates
In 2013, I stepped into the home of the Flores family in the Brightwood neighborhood of northern Washington, D.C., for the first time. As a freshman, I was new to the city and…
September 20, 2016