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Dear Johns Hopkins Community: I write to you on the other side of a historic Election Day. While there is still much we don’t know as we wait for remaining states to certify results, it is beyond doubt that participation—especially by younger...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: We write today to share news about our spring semester. With a mix of cautious optimism, careful preparation, and strong desire to convene on our campuses, we are planning to resume in-person, on-campus academic...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: This past summer, I had the opportunity to talk with Professor Martha Jones in the Department of History about her latest book, Vanguard, a history of Black women’s multigenerational struggle to secure...

October 15, 2020 Dear Johns Hopkins community: The past eight months have been among the most challenging in our university’s past century, as we have weathered together the effects of a devastating pandemic that has taken millions of lives...

Dear Faculty, Students, Staff, and Neighbors: In June, we wrote to you to express Johns Hopkins’ commitment to reimagining public safety in our communities. We believed then, as we do now, that this moment calls upon all of us who care deeply...

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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...

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...

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...

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....