Posts from 2021

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: Last month, we shared a draft of Realizing Our Promise: The Second JHU Roadmap on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and today, we are excited to provide the final version of the plan to all of you. Deeply...

Remarks by President Ronald J. DanielsWhat Universities Owe Democracy | New York Public Library [iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7apdDruHHTA?rel=0&autohide=1&modestbranding=1&wmode=transparent...

Remarks by President Ronald J. DanielsFacts, equity, and democracy  | Bloomberg American Health Summit Good morning, everyone. I’m delighted to join you for this year’s Bloomberg American Health Summit. COVID-19 has been described...

Published in New York Post Across the country, millions of high school seniors are already preparing college applications for next fall. Those who apply to highly selective universities will be engaged in a struggle for very few spots. Last...

Published in Chronicle of Higher Education In the late 1990s, I served as dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. As Canada’s most selective law school, the competition for admission was fierce. Applicants were always in...

Published in The Atlantic I was born in Canada, and my sense of national identity, like that of many Canadians, was formed in direct relation—perhaps in opposition—to the great colossus to the south. We were a country that aspired not to...

Published in Washington Post One of the first institutions to fall when the Taliban entered Kabul in mid-August was the American University of Afghanistan. For a time the country’s only private, nonprofit, independent university...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: Recently, on one of the final evenings of the summer, I stood outside Gilman Hall on our Homewood campus, truly elated to be welcoming the more than 1,400 new Johns Hopkins students who were gathered for our university’s Convocation...

Remarks by President Ronald J. DanielsConvocation for the Class of 2025 | Keyser Quad [iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_Ulw4d1oMg?start=2614" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0...

Remarks by President Ronald J. DanielsDemocracy Day | Shriver Hall Good afternoon. I am so pleased that we are able to gather here together for this colloquium on democracy and the purpose of engagement with its core ideas, values and practices....