Message from the Dean
Dear SCS Community & Guests:
This is an especially exciting time for SCS. Last summer, we bid farewell to 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW–our very first home in downtown D.C.–and joined Georgetown’s Capitol Campus at 111 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
Making Moves & Expanding Impact: The 2024-2025 Dean’s Report celebrates closing one pivotal chapter at SCS, and embracing a new one. As our home for 13 years, the 640 Mass. building was instrumental in our School’s growth, enabling for the first time our community to work, teach, and learn from each other all under one roof. That campus did not merely house our work, but gave us all a place to belong.
Building on this momentum, we are excited to unlock new opportunities at the Capitol Campus. For the first time, SCS is now co-located with other Georgetown programs and schools, including the Earth Commons Institute, the McDonough School of Business, the Berkley School of Nursing, the School of Health, and the Capitol Applied Learning Labs. The move presents vast opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and community-building, which we are already witnessing in the first few exciting months at 111 Mass.
Joining the Capitol Campus will expand and deepen our School’s impact. In this time rife with challenges, we remain steadfast in our mission: to deliver a world-class education to a diverse array of communities and individuals throughout their academic and professional careers; to improve employability and develop workforces; and to contribute to building a civic-minded, well-informed, and globally aware society.
Above all, we remain rooted in a 500-year-old tradition of Catholic and Jesuit education that compels each and every one of us to ask tough questions of ourselves and of our professions, rethink traditional solutions, and ultimately seek something greater.
I am deeply grateful for your support of SCS, and I hope you are as eager as I am to see what’s next.
Most sincerely,
Kelly J. Otter, Ph.D.
Dean
School of Continuing Studies