A Message about University Preparations Related to Hurricane Irene

From: studentaffairs@georgetown.edu

Subject: A Message about University Preparations Related to Hurricane Irene

Dear Parents,

We are writing to update you on our preparations for possible inclement weather this weekend as we welcome students to campus.

We are watching Hurricane Irene and considering how this storm may impact our community and events planned this weekend, in particular move-in and New Student Convocation.

Our first priority is a successful move-in. At this time, we anticipate that move-in will proceed as planned for our new students.

Additionally, we are considering whether it will be safe to hold New Student Convocation as planned. We will update you of changes to our plans as we gather more details about Hurricane Irene’s path and potential impacts.

Please know that we are also making preparations to support students on campus during inclement weather.

Please check http://preparedness.georgetown.edu for updates. We also encourage students to sign up for HOYAlert for emergency notification via email, SMS and voice messaging.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Sincerely,

Rocco DelMonaco, Jr.

Vice President for University Safety &

Chief of Police &

Todd Olson

Vice President for Student Affairs

New Student Convocation

Dear new Hoya Parents and Families,

We look forward to formally welcoming your new student into Georgetown’s academic community.

New Student Convocation is an important tradition for all members of the Hoya community. We hope that in celebrating this formal induction to the academic community, you are introduced to the many ways that learning happens at Georgetown – through inspiration, persistence, curiosity and challenge. The ceremony and welcoming addresses by students, faculty and President John J. DeGioia will undoubtedly shed light on the special opportunities and insights afforded by a Georgetown education.

There are a few logistical considerations that will help you make the most of the day, so please take a minute to think through your plans for the morning of Sunday, August 28.

Prior to the Convocation, there are religious services or faith community gatherings for students and families; these are not required, but afford the opportunity to gather in celebration of your faith tradition if you so choose. Most services start at 9am. Students can plan to attend breakfast in Leo’s between 8am – 10am at whatever time best fits their schedules. Family members interested in breakfast can purchase a meal ticket for Leo’s at the entrance. Starbucks in the Leavey Center will open at 7:30am. More dining options may be available in or near your hotel, so consider your dining needs before heading to campus.

Catholic Mass will be held in McDonough Arena on Sunday morning. Following mass, all attendees must exit the arena so it can be reset for convocation. At this point, the line will begin forming for parents and guests to attend Convocation.

It is important to note that the arena cannot accommodate all the guests who would like to attend the ceremony, so we have a tent with additional seating immediately outside the arena with live telecasting of this event. Each student receives two tickets for guests to attend the ceremony at the New Student Orientation (NSO) Registration tent on Copley Lawn on Saturday, August 27. It is the student’s responsibility to give these tickets to his or her guests . Tickets are required for indoor seating, but they do not guarantee indoor seating. Tickets are not required for the tent seating adjacent to the arena, and you are urged to have additional members of your party sit there (e.g. brothers and sisters of the matriculating student, grandparents, etc.). You need not wait in line for tent seating, you may bypass the line for indoor seating and find a comfortable seat. The student processional will pass through the tent, which will afford you the opportunity to see your student participating in this ceremony.

The line for guests who would like to sit indoors typically begins to form around 9:30am. The doors to the arena usually open around 10:45am. All guests must be seated by the time the doors close at 11:15am. To be fair to all guests, we cannot permit saving seats in the arena or holding places in line. Please plan your morning accordingly.

Questions about convocation can be directed to the Director of Academic Events at mcevents@georgetown.edu. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, August 28, 2011 for New Student Convocation.

Best wishes and Hoya Saxa,

Jean N. Farley

Faculty Chair, New Student Convocation Committee

School of Nursing and Health Studies

Future Resources

Hello and welcome from Off Campus Student Life! Off Campus Student Life OCSL) in the Division of Student Affairs addresses the needs and concerns of students who live off campus in privately owned residences.

My staff and I help our students live safely and successfully off campus. Through various programs and services, we provide opportunities for off campus students to become part of the local community. We also resource students on matters of safety, including their personal safety and home safety. Additionally, OCSL staff works to promote and enhance good relationships with neighbors by increasing students' awareness of their responsibilities and promoting good citizenship on the part of all Georgetown students.

While we work primarily with juniors and seniors who live off campus, we also get involved with programming and activities for residential students, since they, too, have responsibilities to be good neighbors and citizens when they travel through the neighborhoods, and since they might in the future choose to live off campus.

We look forward to welcoming you to Georgetown soon!

Anne Koester
Director, Off Campus Student Life
http://offcampus.georgetown.edu/

Welcome to Campus Life - CMEA

Welcome to CMEA

The Center for Multicultural Equity & Access is gearing up for a busy summer as 60 new Hoyas will arrive on campus for four weeks of classes and orientation as part of the Community Scholars Program, a unique collaboration of Student Affairs, the English Department, and the academic deans’ offices. The Community Scholars are high-achieving first-generation college students from all over the country invited to participate because of their leadership and service.

In addition to taking a Humanities and Writing class for credit with veteran English teachers, the Scholars take a non-credit enrichment class and engage in a variety of transition-to-college experiences coordinated by CMEA. These include everything from time-management workshops to meetings with faculty and administrators to excursions into D.C. neighborhoods.

In the coming weeks, we welcome middle and high-school students from one of those neighborhoods to the summer edition of our Meyers Institute for College Preparation. Rising eighth ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders will come to Georgetown every day for up to five weeks for a full day of academic instruction in English, math, science and Spanish to help get them ready for college.

And next month we greet yet another group of students, Hoyas from the Class of 2015 who have chosen to participate in our YLEAD (Young Leaders in Education About Diversity) pre-orientation program. But more about that later…

Welcome to Campus Life- GU Women's Center

The GU Women’s Center is a friendly, welcoming space where students come for resources, leadership development, meeting space, or just to hang out on the comfy couches. We provide a safe space where students can come if they need help or support in their personal lives, including issues first-year students face as they deal with the stress of going away to college for the first time. The majority of our programming focuses on the needs of women to help them reach their full potential, both as leaders on campus and in their professional lives after graduation.

The Women’s Center works closely with women student leaders, providing them with resources and support to work for positive change in their campus community.We also hold several career development workshops over the course of the year, building resume, networking, and interviewing skills. Telling Her Story, our annual speaker series, highlights exceptional to inspire and educate our community. Through our WAGE Fellowship, we connect female student leaders with remarkable female alumni to provide them with mentorship, training, and leadership development, as well as excellent networking opportunities.Now, with the new Women’s Center that opened this year at SFS Qatar, we have the exciting opportunity to link women in DC with women in Qatar for discussion and cultural exchange. Here at the Women’s Center, we provide a gathering place for students on campus and empower them to achieve their goals.

Welcome to Campus Life- LGBTQ Resource Center

Dear friends, parents, and family members:

We are excited and honored to be welcoming all of your students to the

Hilltop, and for sharing them with us for the next several years. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Resource Center (LGBTQ) is unique among Jesuit schools, as we are the first fully funded, stand alone Center in the country.

A long process of discernment, dialogue, and reflection from students, faculty, staff, and Ministry went into creating and establishing this Center, and we look forward to creating spaces for conversations around the intersections of LGBTQ and faith. We are very honored and very mindful of the responsibility and privilege that comes in its wake. We started in August 2008, and we have sought to build on the rich interfaith and intellectual engagements of Georgetown to create a Center that will speak to all of us in all of our rich diversity.

Guided by the Jesuit values of cura personalis (care of the person), Academic Excellence, Educating the Whole Person, Faith & Justice, Women and Men for Others, Interreligious Understanding, and Community in Diversity we work towards creating a space and community where all are welcome, celebrated, and given opportunities for full actualization of their potential.

Our mission is dual: to provide thoughtful education for all members of the campus community on LGBTQ issues as part of the larger diversity of our world; and to provide a safe environment in which our LGBTQ students can be fully participatory citizens of the campus community.

We work with all of our campus partners—both within Student Affairs, and with academic units to provide a broad range of trainings, workshops, programs, and events throughout the year. We also provide students with leadership development by having them participate in national conferences, and providing specific opportunities for work with all of our campus partners. We offer peer facilitated discussion groups for both LGBTQ and Ally students; there are LGBTQ Catholic and Protestant prayer groups that meet weekly; and we offer a range of educational, social, and service oriented programming.

We invite all parents to come visit us at the Center, and to learn more about our work. Please visit our website for more information on all the work we do: http://lgbtq.georgetown.edu. We hope you can drop by when you are here. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch with Shiva Subbaraman, who serves as the Director of the Center, as well as Matt LeBlanc, Program Coordinator. We also have several work study students, and we work extensively with graduate students, faculty, and staff.

Please email us lgbtq@georgetown.edu if you have questions or concerns you would like addressed; and you can also reach us at: 202.687.3546.