Tomorrow morning, Georgetown’s SFS-Qatar campus will be holding its first-ever commencement. The school’s inaugural graduating class includes 21 students from 9 different countries. Everyone’s favorite University President, John DeGioia, is taking some time off from his newfound Twitter passion to head out to Doha (and to think we were miffed about sharing Gwen Ifill…).

Founded in 2005, SFS-Q was the fifth college campus to open at Education City, an academic enclave on the outskirts of Doha funded by the Qatar Foundation. The SFS-Q website outlines how much the school has changed over its first four years:

Pioneers in every way, the Class of 2009 has set the foundation for Georgetown’s presence in Qatar. “These students arrived in August 2005 at a university with 7 faculty members, 1 classroom and a library that was essentially a couple shelves of reference books and a trickle of periodicals,” said Director of Admissions, Liz Kepferle, who helped to recruit the first class. “Today, there are 34 faculty members, numerous classrooms and study spaces, and a library of more than 30,000 volumes.

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