Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Tag: Georgetown University: Page 3
Women
Report: Education is Key Factor in Gender Bias Among Women in Politics
As campaign season for the 2020 presidency begins with more women competing for the nomination than ever before, gender bias continues to affect their chances of political success, with 13 percent of Americans believing that men are more emotionally suited for political office than women.
April 17, 2019
Home
Black Studies Leaders Laud Georgetown Student Vote for Fee to Fund Reparations
Some African-American studies professors are praising Georgetown University undergraduate students for passing a referendum to assess students a semesterly fee to fund reparations for descendants of nearly 300 slaves sold by the university in 1838 to help the school stay afloat.
April 13, 2019
Home
Conference Dissects White Supremacists from Nazis to Now
Anti-Semitism and racism are contemporary as well as historical, and everyone from academics and religious leaders to the public and police should stand against the White supremacy that fuels them, speakers said Wednesday at a Georgetown University conference at the National Press Club.
April 11, 2019
News Roundup
Wrongfully Sentenced Georgetown Alumnus Receives Marshall Scholarship
Brian Ferguson, a recent graduate from Georgetown University who was once wrongfully sentenced for homicide and exonerated after serving 11 years of a life sentence, has won a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master’s of comparative policy at the University of Oxford. Ferguson is one of 48 students in the country to be awarded with […]
December 4, 2018
Community Colleges
Study: Bachelor’s Degree Not Sole Path to ‘Good-Paying’ Job
People who consider a bachelor’s degree the only route to a good-paying job should think again, because the economy is providing similarly gainful employment to workers with just a high school education and those with so-called middle skills, according to a new study by the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University.
October 16, 2018
Latest News
Study Outlines Challenges for Low-Income Working Students
Low-income undergraduates who work are less likely than their higher-income counterparts to obtain a bachelor’s degree, and they are disproportionately women, Latino, Black and first-generation college students, according to a study by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University.
August 28, 2018
Latinx
Report Details Wide Latino, White College-Attainment Gaps in Colorado
Colorado, the second most-educated state in the nation, has a college-attainment gap between White and Latino residents that is the worst among the nine states with the largest Latino populations.
August 8, 2018
LGBTQ+
Donors Help Gay High School Valedictorian Afford College
Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian from First Coast High school in Florida, who said he was shunned by his parents because of his sexuality, can now attend college in the fall thanks to a GoFundMe campaign. The campaign was started by Jane Martin, one of his teachers. After hearing that Owen was worried he […]
August 2, 2018
Students
Health Insurance Remains an Issue for Students and Recent Grads
A nationwide poll revealed that more than 70 percent of college students and recent graduates reported having difficulty finding affordable insurance coverage. Many students cited expensive premiums and high out-of-pocket costs as impediments to affordability.
June 2, 2018
Home
Using Technology to Put Faculty First
Technology entrepreneur Steve Goldenberg founded Interfolio, a software company that helps more than 200,000 faculty and administrators at hundreds of colleges and universities across the world.
May 3, 2018
STEM
STEM Conference Tackles Student Readiness for Evolving Workforce
WASHINGTON — The seventh annual U.S. News and World Report STEM Solutions Presents: Workforce of Tomorrow conference brought together leaders in education, business, government and the nonprofit sector to discuss strategies to develop the next generation of students in STEM fields.
April 5, 2018
Home
Scholars See Mixed Progress on Civil Rights 50 Years After King’s Death
Many people who were alive during the nation’s Civil Rights Movement felt that America stood still April 4, 1968, the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet.
April 3, 2018
Previous Page
Page 3 of 6
Next Page