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At this pivotal time in our history—as a University and global community—you have inspired the very best in one another and shown the power of a community that’s centered on creativity, generosity, and compassion. I can’t wait to see what we accomplish together this year.

Dear Faculty Colleagues: It is hard to overstate the importance of our junior faculty to the future of our university. They are without question some of the best young scholars, teachers, and clinicians anywhere in the world, and they bring new ideas and fresh perspectives to our quest for knowledge and discovery. The university’s continued eminence is tied to our success in supporting the growth and achievement...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: I want to be sure you heard some significant and very welcome news for our community. In an important victory for international students at Johns Hopkins and other universities, the federal government today agreed to rescind a change to rules for F-1 visa holders that would have prevented many students from coming back to the United States for studies this fall and could have forced others...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: In recent weeks, I have watched with increasing concern the steady march of decisions and policies put forward by this administration that unfairly target our international students and their families. As you know, the latest came on Monday when this administration released revised guidance regarding the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) that substantially impacts our...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: In this moment of national reckoning with racist violence and structural racism it is clear that as individuals, as a university, and as a society, we are faced with both an imperative and an opportunity to act. Sadly, that pain and impact reverberated again this week when a racist symbol was found on a construction site in an off-campus lab facility and Johns Hopkins unequivocally and in...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: I am anguished to be writing you with some very distressing news. Yesterday, a rope tied into a noose was found in a construction site of a Whiting School of Engineering lab in an off-campus facility, the Stieff Silver building near the Homewood campus. We have referred the incident to federal law enforcement as a potential hate crime, and we are conducting our own investigation as well...

Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community: We are pleased to share today our plans for the undergraduate experience at JHU this fall. After extensive consultation with our faculty public health and medical experts, and input from faculty, students, and staff, we have determined that we will be able to resume in-person activities for our undergraduates but that we will also provide maximum flexibility for those...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: The past several weeks have shown starkly the toll and trauma of racism. We understand that it is incumbent upon us not only to listen and support our Black and Brown colleagues but to take actions that embody our belief that their flourishing at Johns Hopkins truly matters. In the coming days, we will share more about a framework for determining together the steps we can take to combat racial...

Dear Johns Hopkins Students and Families: We continue to plan for the next academic year, one that will be different from any of the previous 144 at Johns Hopkins. We are committed to doing our best to resume a spectrum of education, research, and student-life activities this fall to the greatest extent possible—with scrupulous regard to sound public health and medical advice—and to ensuring that you have a rewarding...

Dear Faculty, Students, Staff, and Neighbors of Johns Hopkins: As hundreds of thousands rise in protest here and across the nation, we share the continued anguish and anger at the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and the unjust loss of so many other Black lives, in the long and grotesque history of structural racism that has shaped this nation and its institutions. This moment of national reckoning implicates...