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While much has changed over GW’s 200 years,
what endures is our never-ending
commitment to creating a
greater world.
MAKE AN IMPACT
GW Community Makes an Impact Serving in Honor of MLK Jr.
More than 500 volunteers took part in GW’s 28th annual MLK Jr. Day of Service and Leadership at projects throughout the D.C. area. Participants contributed about 1,500 service hours at 11 different sites with projects including local school cleanups, creating harm-reduction kits, removing broken glass from park trails and transcribing Freedmen’s Bureau documents. Some volunteers were joined in a project to create math, literacy and social, emotional learning materials for preschoolers by Vice President Kamala Harris, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Black Heritage Celebration Launches with Keynote from actor Amanda Seales
Seales advised GW audience to be fearless in making career moves if a job isn’t serving them.
STORIES FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Ellen Granberg, Ph.D., to Serve as 19th President of GW
Ellen Granberg, a sociology scholar who is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and was previously an academic leader at Clemson University, will become the first woman to serve as GW’s president when she takes the helm of the largest university in the nation’s capital on July 1.
Black Heritage Celebration 2023
GW’s 2023 Black Heritage Celebration, “Black to the Future: Our Revival and Rebirth,” is here—and the calendar is packed. While there’s plenty to keep you occupied on campus, you can also find some events in the wider Washington, D.C., area that celebrate Black life, history, art and accomplishment.
"Thomas Buergenthal visited my Holocaust class @GWtweets today and I’ll never forget it. It was the first time in my life hearing from a Holocaust survivor directly. Research through text is one thing. Hearing directly from the person is another."
Gavin Coble
BA Political Science
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