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Originally published in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter On Monday evening, the Black Student Union called the campus community together for a frank conversation concerning issues of race, diversity and the black student experience at Johns...

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: Reports of bigotry and racial discrimination across U.S. higher education have drawn this country’s attention in recent weeks, and it is important to acknowledge that this moment is not about a handful...

Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, This summer, I hosted a small group of high school students from the Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program in my office, offering cookies and lemonade as, with typical teenage reserve, they shared stories about...

Dear Johns Hopkins community: In recent years, we—along with other colleges and universities across the country—have confronted and addressed a number of complex issues surrounding sexual assault and the steps we must take to protect...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff:Ten goals. Four priorities. Conversations with more than 1,000 members of the Johns Hopkins community across 10 divisions, culminating in one ambitious vision for our university through 2020. Since we...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community, This is an exciting moment for innovation and entrepreneurship at research universities, especially Johns Hopkins. Discovery and entrepreneurial endeavor are converging in unprecedented ways. Investigators...

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: Over the last year, the president, provost, and deans and directors of the university’s divisions have been working on an initiative designed to support the research and creative professional activities...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff:, Student alcohol abuse – particularly “binge drinking” – has long stood as a critical challenge on college campuses, including our own. Its impacts are far-reaching, affecting not only the health...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, It has been more than two years since a universitywide committee began working on a comprehensive self-study of Johns Hopkins in preparation for its decennial reaccreditation evaluation. We are delighted...

Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community, More than 20 years ago, a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers participated in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an effort to assemble a photographic record of the night sky. The image data collected...