Institutional Priorities
At Johns Hopkins we discover, we teach, we heal, and we serve our communities — the community in which we live and work, and our larger global community. Our discoveries and teaching trigger advances in patient care and public service. The needs of our patients and communities drive our research and teaching. Everything we learn, discover, and invent, we share we the world.
In order to do this, Johns Hopkins must attract the best students and faculty, bringing them together and encouraging them in every way possible to tackle the most difficult, most pressing problems confronting the world. We must also have classrooms and research labs, library buildings, and student housing: a complete physical infrastructure to support the pioneering work done daily across the Johns Hopkins campuses.
Support for Student Financial Aid
When assigned a problem to solve, students at other universities may search to see what has been written before. At Johns Hopkins, students start with a blank piece of paper.
The stellar reputation of Johns Hopkins’ academic programs and faculty attracts exceptional students to all our schools. Scholarship support has an immediate impact—signaling to applicants and current students that Johns Hopkins is as committed to their scholarly success as they are. But it also has a far-reaching effect, providing a promise to future generations that academic merit is the only criterion by which they will be judged.
Support for Faculty
Johns Hopkins’ excellence rests on our ability to attract and retain outstanding professors who are leaders in their fields—individuals who teach and mentor students; are actively engaged in scholarship and discovery; and apply their expertise to the practice of their disciplines, from medicine to business to international affairs. We seek to provide our young investigators with startup funds and our established faculty with the stability of endowed professorships and the tools they need for both research and teaching.
Support for Facilities
Archimedes spoke of needing only a lever and a place to stand to move the world. New and renovated facilities on all our campuses will provide Hopkins people with both.
Our patient care rooms are equipped with technology to allow clinicians to test and diagnose on-site, and our classrooms are equipped to offer faculty and students instant access to the right tools and resources. These advancements, among others, are proof that every lab, practice space, and classroom has been built as a tool as much as a workspace.
We are building labs, libraries, and learning spaces that will free our faculty and students to do their best work. And our new medical facilities will give clinicians every advantage in their battles against disease and give patients every resource to speed their recovery.
Support for Research and Academic Programs
What is discovered in our labs, created in our practice rooms, and learned in our classrooms is shared with the world.
On every continent and in every time zone, you’ll find Johns Hopkins people at work: They are reconstituting K–12 schools around America, treating malaria and training midwives in developing countries, developing new techniques in our surgical suites, uncovering the mysteries of history at archaeological digs, and remediating the impact of pollutants in our waterways. In fact, they are even working out of this world: Johns Hopkins scientists are unraveling the cosmological clues to the nature of our universe, while Hopkins engineers are probing the outer reaches of our solar system.
Deans' and Directors' Priorities
Support provides university leadership with the ability to nimbly respond to urgent challenges and to invest in unanticipated opportunities. This funding is current-use, which enables deans and directors to provide support where it is needed, when it is needed - funding everything from novel faculty research projects to programs designed to improve the student life experience.
See the impact of philanthropy at Johns Hopkins in a short film called "A Remarkable Journey."
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