Campus Resources

Academic Resource Center
The Academic Resource Center (ARC) assist in many skills areas necessary for academic success through individual consultations or workshops, accommodations to students with disabilities, and facilities and support services to help ensure equal opportunity for students with disabilities. The ARC offers both services and support for students as well as training and assistance for faculty and staff members.

Center for Social Justice
The Center for Social Justice (CSJ) focuses on developing Georgetown’s commitment to service and justice. The Center builds and supports student work of direct service, such as tutoring and mentoring programs. The CSJ also promotes and helps develop courses that incorporate community-based work and service to justice, and advances the University’s community-based research projects. As collaborative office, the CSJ works in partnership with many university individuals, offices and organizations.

Classroom Educational Technology Services (CETS)
CETS provides technology and audio-visual service and support for classrooms as well as workshops, institutes and conferences taking place on campus. CETS staff can assist faculty, staff and students with both locating and using media for educational purposes.

CNDLS
The Center for New Design in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University supports faculty and graduate students through the promotion of best practices in teaching and learning. CNDLS (pronounced “candles”) is at the heart of Georgetown’s effort to combine the best of its educational traditions with the tools, resources, and opportunities of the new learning environments of the 21st century.

• Digital Commons
• Assessment Portal
• BlackBoard
• Language Lab

Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS)
Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) serves as the university’s primary mental health agency for its students and campus community. CAPS offers a broad range of services to help students overcome psychological, emotional, and cognitive difficulties, including evaluations, group therapy and individual counseling. CAPS can also assist faculty who may be concerned about a student’s mental well being through its referral service.

UIS Help Desk
The University Information Systems Help Desk supports telephone, computing, networking, and applications on campus. Help Desk staff are available Monday through Friday from 8:30-5:00 pm to answer your questions regarding using Georgetown University technology in your office, at home, in the classroom, or in public computing clusters. The group also manages communications on scheduled and unscheduled outages.

University Library
The Georgetown University Library consists of the main library, Lauinger Library, and Blommer Science Library, which is located in the Reiss Science Building. Lauinger Library also houses the Woodstock Theological Center Library and shares its cataloging facilities with the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, which serves as the library for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
The library is also home to the Gelardin New Media Center, which offers access to a wide variety of software and services for computing, for multimedia development, and for audio-visual and digital materials. The Gelardin staff also offers multimedia instruction and training for faculty, students and staff.

Writing Center
The Writing Center is a free writing resource available to undergraduate and graduate students. Writing Center Tutors do not proofread papers for grammar or spelling errors, but rather help individuals improve their own critical thinking, revision, and editing skills. Peer tutors will assist writers with any style of writing at any stage of the writing process, from brainstorming to revision, and tutors are available to work with professors as in-class tutors.

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