The landscape of higher education is changing. Universities across the globe are looking for new and improved ways to modernize how education is delivered and create an enriching experience while contending with the rising costs to students and institutions. We have risen to this challenge by performing a thorough review of our operations and identifying select initiatives to maximize Georgetown’s resources to ensure our future is as illustrious as our past.
Successfully executing this program will allow Georgetown to strategically invest for the future ensuring that we can continue to provide an environment that supports serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs while promoting intellectual, ethical, and spiritual understanding. The objectives of this initiative are to:
Achieve significant savings by improving processes, practices and operating structures
Improve budgeting and financial planning processes
Instill a culture of fiscal and organizational responsibility
In spring 2019, Geoff Chatas, Georgetown University’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, co-hosted a series of forums across the GU campuses to discuss university-wide priorities, ambitions and how to strengthen the financial foundations of the institution. …