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Georgetown University


Self Description

January 2006: "Founded in 1789, the same year the U.S. Constitution took effect, Georgetown University is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today, Georgetown is a major international research university that embodies its founding principles in the diversity of our students, faculty, and staff, our commitment to justice and the common good, our intellectual openness, and our international character."

http://www.georgetown.edu/home/about.html

Third-Party Descriptions

November 2004: The Department of Education recently required Georgetown University to rewrite its sexual assault policy following a complaint from a female student who had been forced to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to a hearing before the school's sexual assault board.

http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2004/11/11/coverHowUvaTurnsItsBackOnR.html

September 2001: A university located in Washington DC.

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Member of (past or present) Big East Conference Organization Dec 14, 2012
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Children and Families (CCF) Organization Jul 1, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) Organization Jun 1, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Law and the Public's Health Organization Jan 11, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center on an Aging Society Organization Dec 12, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Centers for Law and the Public's Health Organization Feb 28, 2010
Possible/Unclear Credit Research Center (CRC) Organization Jan 7, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Harrison Institute for Public Law Organization May 21, 2007
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Health Policy Institute (HPI) Organization Mar 21, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) Organization Nov 3, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) Organization Jul 25, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) Organization Sep 14, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) David M. Abshire Ph.D. Person Jul 15, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) David S. Addington Esq. Person Nov 9, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gen. John R. Allen Person Dec 23, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Sara Amiryar Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Nan Aron Esq. Person Nov 10, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mitch Bainwol Person Sep 7, 2004
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Randy E. Barnett Esq. Person Mar 19, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Rep. Robert "Bob" L. Barr Jr. ,Esq. Person Jul 15, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gary L. Bauer Person Jan 8, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Paul Begala Esq. Person Oct 3, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) J. Bradley Bennett Esq. Person Feb 11, 2013
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Financial Recipient from (past or present) William R. Berkley Person Feb 29, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Douglas J. Besharov Esq. Person Sep 8, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. M. Gregg Bloche Esq. Person May 22, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Clark Boyd Person Dec 6, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) James "Beau" C. Brincefield Jr., Esq. Person Jun 10, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Leonard "Len" E. Burman Ph.D. Person Dec 15, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Daniel Callahan Ph.D. Person Nov 13, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale Ph.D. Person Mar 13, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gen. George W. Casey Jr. Person Nov 21, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Doug Chapin Esq.,MPA Person Nov 1, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Meryl J. Chertoff Esq. Person Dec 12, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Inimai M. Chettiar Esq. Person Apr 7, 2013
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Joseph Cirincione Person Feb 2, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Barkley Clark Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Paul D. Clement Esq., MS Person Apr 9, 2007
Owned by (partial or full, past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. David D. Cole Esq. Person Apr 22, 2004
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alberto R. Coll Person Jul 12, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., Esq. Person Jun 15, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Rochelle A. Davis Person Jun 1, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael Diamond Esq. Person May 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Richard C. Dieter Esq. Person Apr 18, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Viet D. Dinh Esq. Person Apr 22, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben Esq. Person Nov 11, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sen. Richard "Dick" J. Durbin Person Dec 22, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Ric Edelman Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Dan C. English M.D. Person Jun 17, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Judith M. Feder Person Aug 16, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Edwin G. Foulke Jr., Esq. Person Apr 27, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Peter W. Galbraith Person Jun 26, 2004
Organization Executive (past or present) Prof. Robert L. Gallucci Person Jul 9, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Robert M. Gates Ph.D. Person Jan 28, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo Person Mar 6, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Ronald C. Goodstein Person Apr 17, 2004
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lawrence O. Gostin Esq. Person Jan 11, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael Gottesman Esq. Person Sep 30, 2003
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mary Graham Person May 9, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Emily Nagle Green Person Jan 6, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mark Grossman Esq. Person Oct 24, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Alan Gura Esq. Person Mar 3, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Susan K. Gurley Esq. Person Oct 31, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. David Andrew Harris Esq. Person Mar 24, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lisa Heinzerling Esq. Person Jul 14, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Bruce Hoffman Ph.D. Person Jun 20, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Harry Holzer Person Sep 4, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Michael J. Horowitz Esq. Person Jan 8, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Rep. Steny H. Hoyer Esq. Person May 7, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Thomas B. Hudson Esq. M.S. Person May 3, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Cornelius Hurley Esq. P.M.D. Person May 19, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Rear Admiral John D. Hutson Person Oct 22, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. John H. Jackson Esq. Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Jeffrey P. Kahn Ph.D. Person Dec 20, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Neal Katyal Esq. Person Jan 16, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Donald Kerwin Esq. Person Jan 8, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Stephen J. Kim Person Jun 18, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Mila Kofman J.D. Person Nov 19, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Philip Allen Lacovara Esq. Person Oct 14, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Donald Langevoort Esq. Person Oct 12, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) John F. Lauro Esq. Person Aug 3, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Richard J. Lazarus Esq. Person May 24, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator George LeMieux Esq. Person May 23, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Patrick J. Leahy Person Nov 23, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Laura J. Lederer Esq. Person Sep 26, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Martin S. Lederman Esq. Person Jan 31, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Amanda Lenhart Person Mar 9, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Adam J. Levitin Esq. Person Oct 10, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Robert A. Levy Esq. Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Joanna I. Lewis Ph.D. Person Dec 15, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Scott Lilly Person Mar 11, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. David J. Luban Esq. Person Dec 2, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. John Lynch Esq., MBA Person Jan 8, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) David M. Lynn Person Dec 18, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Cindy Mann Esq. Person Jul 1, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jack Marshall Esq. Person Jan 17, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Kate Martin Person Feb 26, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Monica Medina Esq. Person Jun 27, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Steven J. Milloy Person Oct 16, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sen. George J. Mitchell Esq. Person Jul 27, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Brenda Morris Esq. Person Oct 28, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Lisa Murkowski Person Feb 27, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Juan E. Méndez Esq. Person Jul 14, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul Offner Person Sep 4, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Nina E. Olson Esq. Person Jan 11, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rev. Ladislas Orsy Esq. Person Dec 2, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Edmund D. Pellegrino M.D. Person Oct 18, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul R. Pillar Person Feb 10, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) John David Podesta Esq. Person Dec 12, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Karen L. Pollitz MPP Person Apr 9, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Shauna R. Prewitt Esq. Person Aug 23, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Joy L. Pritts Esq. Person Oct 20, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales Esq. Person Jun 12, 2007
Organization Executive (past or present) Prof. James Reardon-Anderson Person Feb 25, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Harvey Rosenfield Esq. Person Feb 7, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Harvey Rosenfield Esq., MA Person May 9, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Marc Rotenberg Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul F. Rothstein Esq. Person Jan 5, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Peter J. Rubin Esq. Person Apr 12, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Esq. Person Apr 11, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rabbi David Saperstein Esq. Person Dec 8, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Isabel V. Sawhill Person Mar 1, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia Person Dec 21, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Andrew I. Schoenholtz Esq. Person Jun 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Roy A. Schotland Person Sep 15, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Philip G. Schrag Esq. Person Jun 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Tammy S. Schultz Person Jan 20, 2013
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Nancy Sherman Ph.D. Person Nov 30, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael Shifter Person Jan 5, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Maria Shriver Person May 21, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Douglas Shulman MPA, JD. Person Sep 7, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Donald "Don" Siegelman Esq. Person Mar 13, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Judge Laurence H. Silberman Person Nov 12, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Brenda V. Smith Esq. Person Aug 27, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Robert Ellis Smith Esq. Person Sep 6, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Gary Solis Esq. Person Oct 22, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael "Mike" E. Staten Person Jan 7, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Margaret Sullivan Person Dec 14, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul J. Sullivan Ph.D. Person Feb 7, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Kara Swisher Person May 2, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Deborah F. Tannen Ph.D. Person Feb 25, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mayor Angel Taveras Esq. Person May 12, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael "Mike" R. Taylor Esq. Person Aug 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) George John Tenet MIA Person Jan 10, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) John Thompson Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Loren B. Thompson Ph.D. Person Dec 8, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Nick Timiraos Person Aug 21, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Robert M. Veatch Ph.D. Person Sep 14, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) David C. Vladeck Esq. Person Dec 2, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Hamed Wardak Person Mar 29, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Bruce Weinstein Ph.D. Person Dec 17, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Clyde Wilcox Ph.D. Person Feb 29, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Jennifer L. Windsor Person Jun 12, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Allison M. Zieve Esq. Person Mar 28, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach M.D. Person Nov 22, 2005

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jun 21, 2010 In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That

QUOTE: the tactic getting the most attention — and the most controversy — is the sudden, deliberate and dubiously effective grade inflation, which had begun even before the legal job market softened.

 New York Times
Jun 06, 2010 Colleges offer grants, work-study to reduce students' debt

QUOTE: More than 50 colleges -- including elite private schools and flagship state universities in Virginia and Maryland -- have eliminated or capped loans in their financial aid portfolios for some or all students, promising enough aid in grants and work-study to cover most of the gap between what they charge and what each student can afford to pay. At a handful of private universities with sizable endowments, including Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, the goal is quite literally to eliminate loan debt for most graduating seniors.

 Washington Post
Aug 02, 2007 Top Private Education Lender Cuts Jobs: GAO Report Faults Industry Oversight

QUOTE: EduCap... laid off scores of workers yesterday and is considering shutting its loan business as federal officials investigate whether it has abused its tax-exempt status, according to current and former employees.

 Washington Post
Jun 14, 2007 Women lawyers force big rights gains in Uganda: This spring, a small group of lawyers helped overturn laws that gave men more rights than women.

QUOTE: There are hundreds of groups in Africa advocating women's rights. But few, if any, have been as effective in alleviating the injustices suffered by women as this small group of lawyers in Uganda… “They're just people who need help at the end of the day," says Victoria Kirunda, who has been a lawyer with FIDA-U for over a year.

 Christian Science Monitor
Jun 13, 2007 High-Deductible Plans Cost More For Maternity Care: Study Compares Out-of-Pocket Expense

QUOTE: The first study of its kind has found that families typically pay much more out of pocket for maternity care under the new high-deductible health insurance plans paired with health savings accounts that have been heavily touted by President Bush and others. The cost difference compared to traditional employer-based health insurance is especially stark, in most cases, for women who have complicated pregnancies.

 Washington Post
Mar 05, 2007 Without Health Benefits, a Good Life Turns Fragile

QUOTE: Increasingly, the problem affects middle-class people like Ms. Readling, who said she made about $60,000 last year. As an independent contractor, like many real estate agents, Ms. Readling does not receive health benefits from an employer. She tried to buy a policy in the individual insurance market, but — having had cancer — could not obtain coverage, except at a price exceeding $27,000 a year, which was more than she could pay.

 New York Times
Sep 11, 2006 As violence escalates, so does talk of a divided Iraq: An idea to redraw the map to give religious and ethnic groups more autonomy gains traction in Iraq and US.

QUOTE: But where many specialists agree is that the Bush administration is not planning ahead sufficiently for the curveballs that continuing sectarian and religious conflict might have in store for the US in terms of Iraq's final architecture...the US might be best off leaving the fight and letting the Iraqis decide what they really want.

 Christian Science Monitor
Aug 31, 2006 Ministry Groups' Ejection Protested

QUOTE: Some evangelical students at Georgetown University spent the first day of classes yesterday collecting 400 signatures from people who said they were displeased that the school had ejected several private ministry groups from campus.

 Washington Post
Aug 04, 2006 Advocates Say U.S. Bars Many Academics: Government Says It Rarely Uses Law Regarding Those Who 'Espoused Terrorism'

QUOTE: growing number of foreign scholars whose visas have been revoked or whose applications have been denied -- barred, according to civil rights and academic groups, for their ideological or political views...

 Washington Post
Jun 10, 2006 Beliefs: Will Same-Sex Marriage Collide With Religious Liberty?

QUOTE: Is same-sex marriage on a collision course with religious liberty? It wasn't surprising that before the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage died in the Senate this week, several senators supporting it raised that danger.

 New York Times
Apr 17, 2006 Arrests Don't End Wage Protests: U-Va. Students Continue Rallies

QUOTE: The arrests Saturday evening of 17 University of Virginia students who had occupied a campus building for four days to protest the wages paid to university employees did nothing to deter a crowd of demonstrators yesterday, as students continued to call for higher pay.

 Washington Post
Apr 07, 2006 Colleges, Awash in Applications, Turning Away Even Top Students

QUOTE: Selective schools in the region and the country are reporting more rejections than ever..."We were kind of struck by the fact that we were wait-listing and denying students that last year or two years ago we would have been happy to admit," said John Latting, director of undergraduate admissions.

 Washington Post
Mar 24, 2006 College Board Acknowledges More SAT Scoring Errors

QUOTE: an additional 27,000 SAT tests from the October exam had not been rescanned for errors.The announcement was the third admission in two weeks by the testing organization of potential errors and underreported scores.

 Washington Post
Jan 09, 2006 Urban Colleges Learn to Be Good Neighbors: Universities Also Reap Benefits From Investing in Their Communities

QUOTE: Ten years ago, the University of Pennsylvania was under siege....The university and private developers have invested about a billion dollars over the past decade in security, retail, schools, the local housing market and what Penn refers to as "economic inclusion" -- making sure the community and minority companies get a piece of the success.

 Washington Post
Mar 22, 2005 Learning to Stand Out Among the Standouts: Some Asian Americans Say Colleges Expect More From Them

QUOTE: "...selective colleges routinely reject [Asian American applicants] in favor of African American, Hispanic and even white applicants with lower scores in order to have more diverse campuses and make up for past discrimination."

 Washington Post
Nov 11, 2004 How UVA turns its back on rape

QUOTE: One of the most bitter ironies for UVA rape victims is that the school seems to reserve its harshest penalties not for sexual predators, but for students who violate the Honor Code, an antebellum proscription against lying, cheating, and stealing.

 Hook
May 25, 2003 Campuses May Be Developing Tactics to Hide Rapes

QUOTE: Harvard University reversed its decision to make reporting a sexual attack on campus more daunting. Elsewhere, however, students receive little support for prosecuting their assailants and may be actively discouraged from pursuing a claim.

 Women's eNews
Jul 06, 2001 Leading Colleges Adopt New Guidelines for Awarding Financial Aid

QUOTE: ...leading colleges and universities will announce today that they have agreed on new guidelines for determining who is eligible for financial aid.

 New York Times