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Baker Center for Leadership & Governance

In his 2016 best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance writes about growing up in Rust Belt Ohio and visiting family in Appalachian Kentucky. Vance describes Appalachia as a stalled, store-shuttered place with dropping employment and high school graduation rates, its people plagued with addictions. Read More

Community Scholars Program Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary

In 1968, Georgetown University recognized that high-achieving students from racially and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds may need different types of support to have a truly equitable educational experience. The resulting manifestation of Georgetown's Jesuit heritage—the Community Scholars Program—will celebrate its 50-year anniversary this fall. Read More

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Hilltop a Hotspot for Disease Study

In what areas of the U.S. are parents more reluctant to vaccinate their kids? Do these locations have something in common? Is vaccine hesitancy—the desire to delay or refuse vaccines—eroding population immunity? Read More

Shweta Bansal, an assistant professor of biology at Georgetown

Bill Clinton Remembers Georgetown

Twenty-five years after his first presidential election win, former President Bill Clinton (F'68) returned to campus as the centerpiece of “Clinton 25: Georgetown Reflects on the Vision of Bill Clinton,” a three-day symposium in November put on by the McCourt School of Public Policy and its Institute of Politics and Public Service. Read More

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