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On Friday, April 11 the Hopkins Political Union held its second debate of the semester, tackling two of the most contested issues in American politics: health-care policy and abortion. There were two unresolved guiding questions: Should health care be left to the free market, and is abortion health care?
On Tuesday, April 15, the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for their weekly meeting. They discussed the renovation of Shaffer and Remsen Halls with members of the administration before moving on to committee voting procedures and agenda-making with the new Executive Board, who were elected last week.
On Thursday April 10, the Hopkins Lecture Series hosted an event titled “An Evening in Virtual Conversation with Margaret Atwood” in collaboration with the Aronson Program for International Studies and the International Studies Leadership Council. This event was part of their 2025 spring series to facilitate discussion on topics of domestic and international significance.
On April 15, University administration hosted a virtual Community Updates conversation titled “Immigration and student visas.” The event was a conversation between Interim Vice President and General Counsel Tiffany Wright, Vice President for Public Safety and Chief of the Johns Hopkins Police Department Branville Brown, and Associate Vice Provost of of International Student and Scholar Services Jim Brailer.
On Wednesday, April 9 the Masters in Intelligence Analysis Program hosted “Africa at the Center of Global Issues” as part of their Inside Intelligence series. The event featured Jerry Laurienti, adjunct professor at Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Policy, and Michael Ard, the Masters in Intelligence Analysis program director in the Advanced Academic Programs division in a discussion on the future of diplomacy and conflict in the African continent, especially considering the role of foreign aid.
On Friday, April 11, the Committee on Student Elections (CSE) released the results for the 2025–2026 Homewood Undergraduate Elections. These positions included the Executive Board, Senate and Class Programming Councils for the Student Government Association (SGA) and the president and vice president for the Hopkins Student Organization for Programming (the HOP). For this election cycle, CSE reported that the total number of voters came to 831, a significant decrease compared to the 1,032 voters from last year’s election.
As of April 10, the Office of International Services (OIS) stated that the number of graduate students who have had their F-1 visas and records revoked was now “several dozen” on their website, an increase from the “approximately dozen” described on April 8.
On Tuesday, April 8 the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for their weekly meeting. This was the last general body meeting of the 112th SGA Senate.
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Two tickets, consisting of three and two candidates, respectively, are running in the 2025–2026 Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Board elections. The SGA Executive Board debate was held Tuesday, April 1, and voting will be open on April 8.
On Wednesday, March 26 at the Great Hall in Levering Hall, the Sheridan Libraries hosted the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSE) Furniture Fair, where students were encouraged to provide feedback on a new array of furnishings, which will become available once the renovations for MSE are completed.
On Tuesday, April 1 the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for their weekly meeting. They discussed SGA merch, amendments to their Constitution and passed a funding bill to promote voter turnout in SGA elections.
On Wednesday April 2 at 4 p.m., the Hopkins Justice Collective (HJC) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference outside Charles Street Market to announce a joint letter signed by over 50 advocacy, faith-based and student organizations addressed to the Governor Wes Moore, Attorney General Anthony Brown and the Maryland legislature.
On Monday, March 31, 2025, the University announced that Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, will deliver the commencement speech for the Class of 2025.
Hopkins Justice Initiative (HJC) released a statement on March 27, demanding a meeting with the University administration to negotiate a sanctuary campus to protect noncitizen students.
The University announced the Regular Decision results for its 150th class on March 21. This was the final round of decisions in one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the University’s history.
On Tuesday, March 25 the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for its weekly meeting.
On March 13, pro-life activist and Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins visited Hopkins as part of her nationwide “Make Abortion Illegal Again” Speaking Tour, tabling in front of Charles Street Market during the day before delivering a talk in Gilman 50 in the evening.
On Wednesday March 5, the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Global Health NOW hosted an event entitled “Extraordinary Journeys: Stories of Refugees Fleeing Conflict and Shaping Global Health.” Held at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington D.C. and available to an online audience through a livestream, the storytelling event highlighted the experiences of refugees from the Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) community.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chairman and Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) published a list of over $2.05 billion in National Science Foundation (NSF) grants that he claimed “promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda,” on Feb. 11.