Hopkins lags in economic diversity ranking
The New York Times ranked Hopkins as slightly above average in economic diversity among top American colleges in their first College Access Index.
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The New York Times ranked Hopkins as slightly above average in economic diversity among top American colleges in their first College Access Index.
After nearly two years of reconstruction, the stretch of N. Charles Street from 29th Street to University Parkway will reopen to vehicular traffic on Sept. 5.
President Ronald J. Daniels announced via email that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has officially launched an investigation into the University’s response to incidents of alleged sexual assault and a possible Clery Act violation.
In a class-action settlement with more than 8,000 patients, Johns Hopkins Health System will pay $190 million in insurance funds to women whose pelvic exams may have been videotaped or photographed.
As students protested on the Breezeway to increase transparency between the administration and the student body, Provost Robert Lieberman, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger and Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Chief Diversity Officer Caroline Laguerre-Brown met with seven students Friday to discuss the University’s sexual violence policy and increasing communication about administrative operations and policies.
In response to President Obama’s new White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, the administration announced last Friday that it is establishing a Sexual Violence Working Group to improve the University’s policy about and responses to reports of sexual crimes.
The Taiwanese American Students Association (jhuTASA) drew over 400 people to its 12th annual Night Market in the Mattin Courtyard on Sunday, sharing homemade Taiwanese food and collaborating with fellow Asian interest groups.
To continue spreading awareness of sexual assault on campus, College Democrats, Voice for Choice, the Hopkins Feminists and the Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) sponsored the Hopkins Against Sexual Assault petition-signing and photo contest Wednesday on the Keyser Quad.
The Hopkins chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) is under investigation by the administration, according to Coordinator of Greek Life and Orientation Rachel Drennen.
J Street U, a national collegiate organization advocating a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, held their first Student Town Hall event in Charles Commons from Saturday through Monday, drawing more than 300 students from 57 colleges and universities. The conference was the largest event ever hosted by J Street U.
Current Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Vice President Janice Bonsu was elected Executive President for the 2014-2015 academic year. She defeated her opponent, Justin Whalley, by 436 votes in an election administered online by the Committee on Student Elections (CSE).
More than 699 people have signed a petition to amend the University’s Sexual Violence policy to make it more comprehensive in its definition of sexual violence.
J Street U, a national organization in support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will host its first Student Town Hall on the Homewood campus from April 5–7. Featured speakers at the event include Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Ambassador to the United States Maen Areikat, Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs and Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards.
Jonathan Bagger, the vice provost for graduate and postdoctoral programs and special projects, has been appointed as the next director of TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.
Five Hopkins-affiliated female leaders spoke about their experiences as students and in the workplace at the inaugural Summit for Emerging Women Leaders held on Saturday in Charles Commons. The event was organized by the Women’s Initiative for Social Equity (WISE).
Dr. Alison Papadakis, who will join the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department this fall, gave a lecture on Wednesday evening titled “Adolescent Angst: Self and Peer Factors Related to Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescents.”
JHU Confessions, a Facebook page featuring anonymous, student-submitted confessions, was temporarily deactivated Monday in order to fix the posting system that turned the page into a hub for cyberbullying and controversial posts about race and sexual orientation.
Dr. Robert Bagdorf, vice president of worldwide business development in biopharmaceuticals search and evaluation at Pfizer, spoke in Hackerman Hall on Monday about marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
President Ronald J. Daniels was listed as the 30th highest-paid private college president on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual list of executive compensation at private colleges. The list of 2011 executive compensations was published in December just before the Board of Trustees voted to extend Daniels’ contract until 2019.
President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Robert Lieberman were among the first of more than 200 American university and college leaders to denounce the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions late last year.