This year the University increased tuition by 3.5 percent for undergraduates enrolled full-time at Homewood, and financial aid for those students rose by nine percent. Undergraduate tuition this year will amount to just over $52,000, an increase of over $3,000 from three years ago.
A federal judge is allowing a $1 billion lawsuit against Hopkins to move forward after it was dismissed in 2016 for the University’s alleged involvement in a 1940s experiment that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases.
Special Collections, a University archive of rare documents, introduced the Freshman Fellows program last year as part of an effort to more closely engage undergraduate students with Special Collections research. The year-long fellowship drew 24 freshman applicants, of which four Fellows were selected.
At their second meeting of the semester on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed several initiatives they will hold in partnership with the University administration. These included the annual SGA-Administration Dinner, a new Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) Curriculum and a new SGA-led initiative on improving civic discourse on campus.
The JHU Forums on Race in America hosted April Ryan, former White House reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, on Tuesday night. She spoke on a multitude of issues ranging from her perspective on racial inequality to fake news.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, the oldest university press in the U.S., will be celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2018.
Oscar Vasquez, a former undocumented immigrant, and Fredi Lajvardi, a high school robotics coach, spoke about politics and immigration in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Thursday, Sept. 7.
The Trump administration announced its intention to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in six months.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos declared last Thursday that she intends to roll back Obama-era policies regarding campus sexual assault. On Tuesday, the University announced that it does not plan to change its current sexual assault policies.
The University instituted a new child accommodation policy for graduate students over the summer. This program allows new parents to take up to eight weeks off to care for their children.
Hopkins is no longer a top 10 university, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, which were released on Tuesday.
The Peabody Conservatory announced that it will be offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance earlier this summer. The program is the first of its kind at the institute and is expected to launch in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Bird in Hand, a cafe-bookshop in Charles Village co-created by local bookstore The Ivy Bookshop and Baltimore coffeehouse Artifact Coffee, welcomed Baltimorean writer Rafael Alvarez on Tuesday night as part of his monthly reading series, Readings with Ralphie.
University President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar issued a statement on Wednesday pledging support to students who might be affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s recension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA).
After months of planning, New Student Orientation for the Class of 2021 kicked off on Saturday, Aug. 26 on Homewood Field. A Core Team of undergraduates as well as a number of staff and graduate interns worked to coordinate the student and parent programming that occurred through Wednesday, Aug. 30.
This semester, the Alumni Memorial Residence halls (AMR I and II) are equipped with window air conditioning units. While other dorms on campus have central air conditioning, lack of air conditioning (AC) has been a historically distinctive feature of the AMRs.
The Hopkins community mourns rising sophomore and student athlete Abigail Bastien, who passed away in July.
The University recently announced the creation of the Agora Institute, an academic institution dedicated to improving civic engagement across the globe.
At its first weekly meeting of the year, the Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed guest speaker Stanley Andrisse, a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Medicine.
Keyser Quad and the Breezeway reopened to students in July after 15 months of renovation. The construction project focused on making structural and waterproofing repairs to Krieger Hall and the Colonnade. Though some refurbishments and adjustments still need to be finished, the project is mostly complete.
