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1. Vice Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs @VictorDCha kicks off our program with welcoming remarks. “You may find that some of your best friends will come not just from within your program, but also from these wider circles.”
2. Want to jumpstart your career through SFS? The SFS Graduate Career Center has got you covered! @gusfs_careers Director @anne_steen tells students, “We partner with you to execute your career and your legacy as a global leader.”
3. SFS Dean @joelhellman_SFS welcomes new students and says SFS is no stranger to times of crisis. “We come together in the spirit of when we were created, at a moment of great uncertainty and change and a moment that challenged us to rethink, question, criticize and innovate.”
4. Next up, Fr @MCarnesSJ, Dir @GeorgetownCLAS, explores @Georgetown's Jesuit tradition+how it informs our values+mission today. He encouraged considering the questions: “How will this contribute to kind of person you want to be? And how does it respond to needs of our world?”
5. We now welcome Prof. Scott Taylor, Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Rosemary E. Kilkenny, Esq., @Georgetown VP for Institutional Diversity & Equity and Prof. Clarence Lusane, Director of @HowardU's Intl Affairs Program.
6. They join @MCarnesSJ for a panel discussion on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Georgetown, SFS and in international affairs.
7. Taylor spoke about racial justice as a mission of educators: “It is our responsibility to recognize that power and that privilege you enjoy and harness both to advance justice.”
8. Fr. Carnes noted @Georgetown's own history w/ slavery, as well as institutional changes to address it. “We still need to do more. And I hope that each of us finds in this a goad to more action. And we need to address this moment even more urgently than we have in past years.”
9. Lusane spoke on the role of international affairs scholars in the discussion around racial justice: “We have a responsibility to dig in a deeper and more profound way, and deconstruct the parables and paradigms of the field of international relations.”
10. Kilkenny reflected on her experiences as @GUAlumni, an administrator and a Hoya parent, advising new students: “You have a very important role to play in creating the kind of climate we want to see established in our classrooms.”
11. Students now have the opportunity to join breakout sessions where they can find out more about SFS graduate certificates, put Qs to our new Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, meet with @gusfs_careers advisors and learn about Georgetown's info systems from @GU_UIS.
12. To learn more about our graduate certificates, please visit https://sfs.georgetown.edu/academics/graduate/
13. Students are Zooming with Prof. Scott Taylor, our new Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Learn more about his vision for his new role at https://bit.ly/TaylorViceDeanDEI
14. Want more opportunities to meet with Graduate Career Center advisors? Students can connect with the Center through their customized Canvas career course and program-specific workshops. Find out more at: https://sfsgcc.georgetown.edu/
15. Stay on top of all the technological resources available to you as you start the fall semester online by connecting with @GU_UIS. Visit: https://uis.georgetown.edu/
