Department of English

The Community Scholars Program is an exciting opportunity for English graduate students to actively improve the Georgetown community while gaining valuable teaching skills, participating in classes, and receiving a generous stipend.

As part of the Center for Multicultural Equity & Access (CMEA), the Community Scholars Program promotes diversity and educational excellence.  Scholars are chosen from each year's incoming first-year undergraduate class based on their exceptional academic skills, and their identifying themselves as first-generation college students, or as students hailing from historically under-represented ethnic-minority and/or working-class communities; they are invited to attend an intensive month-long college preparatory program during the summer before the official start of their freshman year, which then continues into the fall term.

The graduate students selected to work with the Community Scholars Program pursue the mission of the CMEA, building a community of caring learners who work for a more just society.  These students help faculty teach Humanities and Writing 009—an intensive critical reading and writing course offered as a two-course sequence in the summer and fall—to a select group of Community Scholar undergraduates.  In this capacity, graduate students help their assigned professor prepare for class, while attending class, grading papers, leading discussions, and tutoring students individually.  In the spring, these graduate students continue to work with Community Scholars as tutors.  During the summer, these graduate students take two hours of classes a week and continue to assist in teaching the summer classes and tutoring students.