The Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, which opened its doors in January 2001, is a concrete and imaginative manifestation of that commitment. With origins in the work of the Task Force on Social Justice and work for the Jesuit Colleges and Universities Conference on Justice at Santa Clara, this new Center has a mission that is simple to state but far-reaching in its implications: The Center is guided by that mission as it strives to consolidate and develop work in its key three areas: service, curriculum and research.

First, it incorporates and builds on the vibrant student work of direct service and the learning it fosters, whether from tutoring and mentoring or arts education and job development training.

Second, the Center promotes and helps develop curricular offerings that incorporate community-based work and service to justice. The new Center advances this curricular work through faculty workshops, course development grants, and continued support of conferences that enable more faculty to learn about the pedagogy of service learning and to redesign courses to incorporate it.

Third, the Center serves as a catalyst to consolidate and advance the exciting community-based research projects that have been most recently housed in the Center for Urban Research and Teaching, founded in 1997, and the 1999 program called PURS, Partners in Urban Research and Service-Learning, a collaborative project that brought together ten Georgetown social science faculty and community leaders to develop research projects serving the community.

URL: http://socialjustice.georgetown.edu/

Address: Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service Georgetown University Poulton Hall Suite 130 1421 37th ST N.W. Washington, DC 20057

Phone: 202.687.5330

Email: csj@georgetown.edu