The Division of Student Affairs and the academic deans’ offices have established an Academic Safety Net initiative that focuses on identifying and responding to academically at-risk students and that engages Student Affairs personnel in the promotion of students’ academic success.

Alcohol & Predatory Drugs Prevention Awareness Campaign

The offices of Health Education Services, Off Campus Student Life, and Student Conduct have engaged several local bars and restaurants in sponsoring a campaign to raise awareness about responsible drinking and predatory drugs. In cooperation with these Georgetown commercial establishments, the three Student Affairs offices are developing posters, coasters, and other items to educate patrons about the dangers of predatory drugs.

Alliance for Local Living (ALL)

ALL is an advisory council and community action group established by the University to deal with issues and challenges arising within the neighborhoods surrounding the University, where the majority of Georgetown students who live off campus reside. The goal of ALL is to foster good neighbor-to-neighbor relations. The Alliance is composed of University administrators, faculty, neighbors, including homeowners from Burleith and West Georgetown, students living in these neighborhoods, Church leaders, MPD, the Department of Public Safety, landlords, and business owners.

Curriculum Infusion Project: “Connecting the Safety Net to the Heart of the Academic Environment: Curriculum Infusion of Mental Health Issues into Lower Division Courses”

Georgetown University won a $100,000.00 grant from the Engelhard Foundation for a “curriculum infusion” project to create opportunities for engaged learning in order to reduce harm to students. This project focuses on curriculum infusion of student mental health issues through the design of carefully targeted curriculum modules across a wide spectrum of lower division general education courses. The project is driven by two key goals: (1) to elevate the importance of wellbeing issues in the lives of students and faculty by finding creative and meaningful ways of broadening the scope of the lower division curriculum, and (2) to significantly enhance and expand the campus safety net serving student mental health and wellbeing. This project is part of a larger initiative underway at Georgetown to strengthen and transform undergraduate learning.

Educational Community Involvement Program (E.C.I.P.)

The Educational Community Involvement Program (E.C.I.P.) is a pre-college academic enrichment program operated by the Center for Minority Educational Affairs. The endeavor of the E.C.I.P office has been to inspire hope, confidence, and a heightened interest in the value and benefits of post secondary educational opportunities for students of the District of Columbia. The E.C.I.P. office offers various programs, the Schiff Scholars, with its goal to promote student interest and motivation toward the pursuit of a college education, being its premiere one.

Hate and Bias Reporting Working Group and the Bias Related Reporting System

The Hate and Bias Reporting Working Group was established to improve the awareness of and response to acts of intolerance, bias, and hate within the University community and to create a Bias Reporting System that would provide the University students, administrators, and staff a mechanism for reporting and confronting intolerance. The Bias Reporting Team is in charge of the Bias Reporting System and of the follow-up action to reported incidents of alleged bias.

LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning) Working Group

The LGBTQ Working Group is a group of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to creating an environment on the campus that is both welcoming to LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff as well as supportive of their special needs. Endeavoring to identify key campus issues affecting LGBTQ students and to provide a forum for discussion of these issues, the Working Group is broadly collaborative, consulting an array of campus departments and constituencies.

In particular, the Working Group seeks to encourage discourse about LGBTQ issues and issues of faith and Catholicism, fostering reflection, dialogue, and action. The Working group also is a key advisory and consultative body to the Coordinator for LGBTQ Community Resources and to the Vice President for Student Affairs. The Working Group seeks to improve services and campus environment for Georgetown University's LGBTQ community.

Living-Learning Communities

The Office of Residence Life has worked with a number of departments and students to create alternative residential experiences. Students have an opportunity to connect the academic and residential experiences around common interest themes through either creating or participating in a Living-Learning Community (LLC) residential program. Although each LLC is different, the programs are driven by a desire for students to take responsibility for their environment, to enhance their educational experience, and to integrate their living and learning.

NAWCHE 2006 Conference Planning Committee

Sexual Assault Working Group

The Sexual Assault Working Group is a group of faculty, staff, students, administrators, and community members dedicated to addressing sexual assault and relationship violence in the Georgetown University community. The group works to:
- monitor campus issues and trends regarding the scope of sexual assault and relationship violence
- sustain the institutional commitment to address issues related to sexual assault and relationship violence
- provide a comprehensive review of suggestions and recommendations from grassroots organizations and the University community
- sustain the institutional commitment to address sexual assault issues
- support the work of the Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator (SAHIC).

Staff Orientation and Development Working Group

The Staff Orientation and Development Working Group is engaged in maintaining a comprehensive program of staff development, which focuses on both orientation and continuing professional development. These efforts reflect the core values and unique mission of Georgetown University and allow our staff to create a more coherent learning environment and serve students more effectively

The Lena Landegger Community Service Awards

For over ten years, the Division of Student Affairs has been fortunate to be able to offer the Lena Landegger Service Awards to deserving undergraduates. This award, established in the memory of the late Lena Landegger by the Landegger Charitable Foundation, honors students who have made distinguished contributions to community service. Every year, twenty students are chosen from a large pool of candidates to receive an award of $2,500 each in recognition of their involvement in projects ranging across many communities throughout Washington DC and the U.S., and extending at times into foreign countries.