Georgetown University in the District of Columbia 2015 Annual Report Georgetown University Campus Plan 2017-2036 1 Office of Community Engagement 2015 annual report EXHIBIT E: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Georgetown University in the District of Columbia 2015 Annual Report Report at a Glance 3 Letter from President John J. DeGioia 4 Highlights from 2014-2015 8 Creating Economic Opportunities 11 Responding to Community Needs 19 Supporting Strong and Healthy Neighborhoods 24 About the Office of Community Engagement 1 Office of Community Engagement 2015 annual report georgetown university is deeply committed to advancing the common good in the city of washington, dc and around the world. since our founding in 1789, we have come together as a community to pursue our jesuit tradition of serving the most marginalized members of our city, our nation, and our world. In recent years, the District of Columbia has undergone significant changes. We have witnessed the emergence of new economic sectors, the growth of our population, the rise of incomes, and an increasingly flourishing real estate market. But many challenges remain—especially for the most marginalized members of our city—and much work still needs to be done. As an anchor institution in the District, and a Catholic and Jesuit university committed to justice, we have a responsibility to respond to these challenges— to educate students to be women and men for others and to create new knowledge to better understand our world and improve the human condition. At Georgetown University, we seek to engage in this work through mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships designed to respond to the needs of our city. Over the last year, through the extraordinary efforts of many in our community, we deepened our engagement in significant ways. Members of our faculty conducted research on issues of health, the environment, and social justice in our city and helped local nonprofit leaders develop skills to strengthen and transform their organizations. Students, through the support of community-based course projects, helped preserve affordable housing, devise community development projects for the East End neighborhood, create citizenship resources for immigrant communities, and develop lesson plans for a DC high school. In January, our University honored George Jones, CEO of Bread for the City, with the John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream award, in recognition of his dedicated service to some of the most marginalized members of our DC community. Georgetown’s commitment to our immediate neighbors—expressed through the Georgetown Community Partnership—grew even stronger and we are grateful for the opportunity to work together to ensure a safe and vibrant community for all who live in the areas surrounding our Main Campus. During this past year, we also received several important recognitions of our community engagement work, including a renewal of our Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, the most prestigious recognition of its kind in higher education. Our Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center also earned the endorsement of the National Cancer Institute, which commended the Center for its commitment to community-based research and education. This annual report offers further details on all of these partnerships and much of our community’s work. I invite you to learn more about these and many other efforts at communityengagement.georgetown.edu. I am deeply grateful to all those in our university community who have dedicated themselves to serving the common good both here in the District of Columbia and across our world—and I look forward to all we will accomplish together in the years ahead. Sincerely, John J. DeGioia President, Georgetown University 3 Office of Community Engagement 2015 annual report Highlights from 2014-2015 Jones’ work impacts a city where approximately 19 percent of residents live below the poverty line and 28 percent of residents live with little access to nutritious food.1 George Jones of Bread for the City Receives John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award Each year Georgetown recognizes a local leader working to solve some of the District’s most pressing challenges with the John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award. As part of the award Georgetown enters into a yearlong partnership with the awardee and his/her organization. In As part of Georgetown’s partnership with Bread for the City, the January 2015 Georgetown honored university has supported the organization in a number of ways, George Jones, CEO of Bread for the including: City, an organization that provides • Advising on a planned giving campaign DC residents living in poverty with • Advising on a staff benefits plan comprehensive services including • Providing professional development for BFC staff food, clothing, medical care, and • Engaging George Jones in keynote events on race and poverty legal and social services. 5 Office of Community Engagement 2015 annual report Maryland-DC Campus Compact Recognizes Georgetown for Community Engagement The Maryland-DC Campus Compact recognized Georgetown University in fall 2014 for its community engagement, and a Georgetown faculty member for his dedication to civic learning. The university received the Engaged Campus Award, the region’s highest recognition of community engagement in higher education. Maurice Jackson, associate professor of history and a scholar of DC history and culture, received the Civic Engagement Award. Professor Jackson also Associate Professor of History Maurice Jackson, a scholar serves as the inaugural chair of the Mayor’s Commission on of DC history and culture, spoke at the event “DC and the African American Affairs. War on Poverty.” DC and the War on Poverty: Then, Now, Georgetown One of Six Institutions in New and the Future DC Center for AIDS Research In March 2015 the Center for Public and Nonprofit Georgetown University joined an interdisciplinary consortium Leadership at the McCourt School of Public Policy held with five other institutions in spring 2015 to create the District a discussion about the legacy of the war on poverty in of Columbia Center for AIDS Research. The center, funded Washington, DC, the changing demographics of the District, through a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the implications of these changes for the city’s low- is led by George Washington University and also includes income residents. The panel featured Alice Rivlin, visiting Howard University, American University, the Children’s professor of public policy; Maurice Jackson, associate professor National Medical Center and the Washington DC VA of history and chair of the Mayor’s Commission on African Medical Center. Georgetown’s Princy Kumar, MD, directs the American Affairs; Ed Lazere, executive director of the DC center’s clinical and population sciences core, and the center Fiscal Policy Institute; George Jones, CEO of Bread for the will include the Women’s Interagency HIV Study, based at City and recipient of the 2015 John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Georgetown and led by Mary Young, MD, assistant professor Dream Award; and Nicky Goren, president and CEO of the of medicine. The center will expand the multi-institutional Meyer Foundation. effort to support research that contributes to ending the HIV epidemic in the District and beyond. Georgetown Renews Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement In January 2015 the “With this award from Carnegie Foundation for the the National Institutes Advancement of Teaching of Health, the District of renewed Georgetown’s Carnegie Classification for Columbia and the DC Community Engagement. Center for AIDS Research Georgetown was one of 361 colleges and universities to arrive as a premier receive the classification destination for HIV research in the country. in 2015. This prestigious [This is] an exceptional consortium of classification recognizes “campuses that are improving teaching and learning, producing research that makes a academic institutions and researchers.” difference in communities, and revitalizing their civic and MAYOR MURIEL E. BOWSER academic missions.” 6 Office of Community Engagement 2015 annual report The Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center conducts groundbreaking cancer research and provides community-based cancer screening and treatment services. Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Social Justice Programs Mark Major Milestones Center Earns NCI Recognition for Community- Three longstanding programs at Georgetown’s Center for Based Work Social Justice celebrated major milestones during the 2014-2015 In fall 2014 the National Cancer Institute (NCI) endorsed the academic year. The First-Year Orientation to Community Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, citing Involvement (FOCI) celebrated its 30th anniversary. FOCI exceptional accomplishments in community-based work for provides an introduction to first-year students about social cancer prevention and control efforts. Georgetown Lombardi, justice issues in the District. Each summer 70 students engage the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in the with a variety of issues including HIV/AIDS, education, District, conducts community-based screening and research sustainability, hunger, and homelessness. on cancer disparities among underrepresented minority The Alternative Breaks Program (ABP) commemorated communities. its 40th anniversary this year. Since its founding in 1975 ABP has connected students, faculty, and staff for a week of immersion