Editing Georgetown University (section)

===21st century===
In December 2003, Georgetown completed the campaign after raising over $1 billion for financial aid, academic chair endowment, and new capital projects.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/capital-campaign-close-to-1-billion-1.1886694|title=Capital Campaign Close to $1 Billion|first=Nick|last=Timiraos|work=[[The Hoya]]|date=September 12, 2003|access-date=May 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119023502/http://www.thehoya.com/capital-campaign-close-to-1-billion-1.1886694|archive-date=January 19, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2002, Georgetown University began studying the feasibility of opening a campus of the SFS in Qatar, when the non-profit [[Qatar Foundation]] first proposed the idea. The [[Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar|School of Foreign Service in Qatar]] opened in 2005 along with four other U.S. universities in the [[Education City, Qatar|Education City]] development. Additionally, the [[Center for International and Regional Studies]] (CIRS) opened in 2005 at the new Qatar campus.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 13, 2006 |title=Georgetown University marks inauguration of Qatar campus |url=http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=April2006&file=Local_News2006041324119.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312033524/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=local_news&subsection=Qatar%2BNews&month=April2006&file=Local_News2006041324119.xml |archive-date=March 12, 2007 |access-date=March 10, 2010 |work=[[The Peninsula (newspaper)|The Peninsula]]}}</ref> Between 2012 and 2018, Georgetown received more than $350 million from [[Gulf Cooperation Council]] countries including [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Qatar]], and the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=England |first1=Andrew |last2=Kerr |first2=Simeon |date=2018-12-13 |title=Universities challenged: scrutiny over Gulf money |url=https://www.ft.com/content/fa6d15a4-f6ed-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/fa6d15a4-f6ed-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |access-date=2021-11-26 |work=Financial Times}}</ref>

In 2005, Georgetown received a $20 million gift from [[Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud|Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud]], a member of the [[House of Saud|Saudi Royal Family]]; at that time the second-largest donation ever to the university, it was used to expand the activities of the [[Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Caryle |date=December 13, 2005 |title=Saudi Gives $20 Million to Georgetown |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121200591.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616170911/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121200591.html |archive-date=June 16, 2017 |access-date=November 4, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> The same year, Georgetown began hosting a two-week workshop at [[Fudan University]]'s School of International Relations and Public Affairs in [[Shanghai]], China, which developed into a more formal connection when Georgetown opened a liaison office at Fudan on January 12, 2008, to further collaboration.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/news/georgetown-opens-liaison-office-at-fudan-university/ |title=Georgetown Opens Liaison Office at Fudan University |first1=Connie |last1=Parham |first2=Yoshi |last2=Myers |date=January 18, 2008 |access-date=March 9, 2010 |work=[[The Hoya]]}}</ref>

[[John J. DeGioia]], Georgetown's first lay president, led the school from 2001 to 2024. DeGioia continued its financial modernization and sought to "expand opportunities for intercultural and interreligious dialogue."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://president.georgetown.edu/sections/biography/ |title=Biography |department=Office of the President |date=February 2005 |publisher=Georgetown University |access-date=October 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210185537/http://president.georgetown.edu/sections/biography/ |archive-date=February 10, 2009 }}</ref> DeGioia also founded the annual Building Bridges Seminar in 2001, which brings global religious leaders together, and is part of Georgetown's effort to promote religious pluralism.<ref name="ir" /> The [[Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs]] began as an initiative in 2004, and after a grant from [[W. R. Berkley|William R. Berkley]], was launched as an independent organization in 2006.<ref name="ir">{{cite web |url= http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=12052 |title= Georgetown Advancing Interreligious Understanding |work= Georgetown University |access-date= March 10, 2010 |date= April 2, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100611024040/http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=12052 |archive-date= June 11, 2010 }}</ref>