Fall 2025

Founded in 2013, Georgetown University’s American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Club, or GU Signs for short, helps students learn about ASL and DC’s Deaf community. Club-sponsored events, including museum tours, movie nights, and food outings, highlight Deaf culture and allow students to practice ASL outside of a traditional classroom space.
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“Georgetown’s mission of formation, understanding, education, and research is more critical today than ever. In a world craving nuance, patience, and kindness, our alumni are prepared to meet this moment. Rather than retrenching into comfortable spaces, our students and graduates follow in the esteemed Jesuit tradition of being at the edges and the intersections of society.

We seek out other points of view and engage across differences, having been educated in a community designed from its founding as open to people of all faiths willing to listen and learn in support of a then-new Republic. We aspire to care for each other and for others we have never met because we recognize our common humanity and realize that our destiny is shared.”

—GUAA President Fitz O. Lufkin IV (C’11, G’12), speaking at John Carroll Weekend 2025 in Philadelphia

For the spring issue we are gathering ideas from alumni for a new section of Georgetown Magazine. Please share your favorite place to spend a sunny day when you were a student!