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GU Raises Tuition Yet Again Amid Frustration
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Tuition is increasing by 4.9% next year, and students are expressing anger over a perceived lack of transparency.
Catherine Alaimo Special to The Hoya
Georgetown University announced its decision to increase the annual undergraduate tuition rate by 4.9% for the 2023-2024 academic year, the second increase in the last two years. In 2022, the tuition increased by 3.5% from the previous school year. Georgetown’s announcement coincides with hundreds of college students’ protests at the U.S. Supreme Court to pass President Biden’s student loan forgiveness legislation. “The tuition rate reflects a balanced approach to managing rising costs, as well as providing the resources needed for academic and student priorities, new programs and initiatives, and our commitment to minimizing add-on fees,” Provost Robert Groves wrote in a Feb. 21 email to undergraduate students. Groves said the university will continue to meet the
financial needs of all of its students by increasing funds as tuition increases, citing Georgetown’s record-high financial aid budget of $264 million for the 2022-2023 academic year as evidence. “The university will continue to consider adjustments to financial aid packages when alerted to new family circumstances and to recruit deserving students regardless of their ability to pay,” Groves wrote. Georgetown based their decision on several different factors, according to a university spokesperson. “There are a variety of factors taken into consideration in setting tuition rates, including the costs of delivering a high-quality education, available sources of financial aid, projected costs for competitive faculty and staff salaries, student services, technology upgrades, maintenance and See TUITION, A7
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Starting with the Class of 2027, the two-part “Engaging Diversity” core requirement will be replaced with a new one-credit “Pathways to Social Justice” course that all students will be required to take.
‘Engaging Diversity’ Out, Social Justice In Evie Steele
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revised “Pathways to Social Justice” requirement will replace Georgetown University undergraduate students’ “Engaging Diversity” core requirement, which has been in place since 2016. The new course will start with the Class of 2027. The university’s main campus executive faculty approved proposed changes to the curricular requirement Feb. 24. Beginning in the Fall 2023 semester, undergraduates will be required to take
a one-credit, pass-fail seminar titled “Race, Power and Justice at Georgetown,” as well as two other classes in different departments meeting the pathways requirement to more deeply investigate social justice. Students across all five undergraduate schools can currently choose from a wide array of courses like “Business Arabic” and “Issues in Environmental Justice” to meet their two-course “Engaging Diversity” requirement: one course for “Engaging Diversity: Domestic” and one for “Engaging Diversity: Global.”
Under the new requirement, the “Race, Power and Justice at Georgetown” seminar will teach students about Georgetown’s role in the history of enslavement and racism, according to the subcommittee’s proposal. “This course will teach Georgetown’s history of enslavement of people of African descent and how that history intersects with national and global experiences of slavery and emancipation, settler colonialism, imperialism, and contemporary struggles for justice,” the subcommittee’s proposal reads. “It will develop a common
vocabulary for all Georgetown students to continue to engage in conversations about racial equity and justice and should be taken in the first or second year.” The 2015 creation of the diversity requirement mandated a five-year review of the curriculum’s efficacy. As part of this evaluation, since fall 2020, over 25 students, staff, faculty and administrators from the main campus’s Core Curriculum Committee, the Georgetown University Student Association and the See CORE, A7
SFS Sophomore Wins Big, Georgetown Student Groups Returns to ‘Jeopardy!’ Celebrate Black History Month Emily Han
Academics Desk Editor
Georgetown University student organizations hosted projects and demonstrations throughout the month of February to commemorate Black History Month. The Black Leadership Forum (BLF), a coalition of clubs on campus that serves Black students,
largely facilitated the initiatives. The Black MBA Association (BMBAA), which aims to increase the representation of Black leaders in business, also organized opportunities for students to engage with Black History Month. Saleema Ibrahim (SFS ’23), a BLF facilitator, said one goal of these events was to increase the presence of the Black student community at
Georgetown through a combination of academic, social and scholarship events. “We wanted to make sure that this month we were very visible on this campus and that we’re putting on events that we enjoy,” Ibrahim told The Hoya. “I enjoyed working with the other student leaders in the BLF, and I know See BHM, A7
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Caleb Richmond (SFS ‘25) won nearly $30,000 at the High School Reunion Tournament March 2, five years after competing in the Teen Tournament in 2018.
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Most people can only ever dream of competing on “Jeopardy!” At 19 years old, Caleb Richmond (SFS ’25) has already appeared on the show twice, so far accumulating total winnings of around $40,000 across both tournaments. Richmond first competed in the “Jeopardy!” 2018 Teen Tournament as a sophomore in high school, advancing to the semifinals and walking
away with $10,000 in prize money. The reunion tournament, which brings back contestants who competed in various teen tournaments, featured Richmond in an episode that aired March 2. Twenty-seven students competed in the tournament, and in his first round, Richmond faced off against two other college students and won to now move onto the semifinals. The winner of the tournament will receive a grand prize of
$100,000 and a place in the 2023 “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions, which will feature the most successful contestants from the show’s current season, all competing for a grand prize of $250,000. Richmond said that while the competition itself is important, the highlight of his return to “Jeopardy!” was reuniting with the friends who he made during the high See JEOPARDY!, A7
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The Black Leadership Forum largely led the initiatives, which highlighted the Black student community through scholarship, academic and social events.
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