During Spring Break
this past March, about 35 SAIS students traveled to Turkey for eight days to participate in the second annual Strategic Studies International Staff Ride sponsored by the school. A staff ride, more than a mere battlefield tour, teaches students about the enduring aspects of war. The trip included visits to the World War I battlefields of Gallipoli, the site of several ambitious amphibious assaults in 1915. While walking the ground where these historic events occurred, SAIS students played the role of key participants in the military campaign, presenting an analysis of their actions as World War I commanders. To prepare for the trip, students mastered maps and more than 350 pages of data, attended preliminary briefings, and developed role-playing presentations delivered during the on-scene battlefield walks.
In the photograph, American foreign policy professor Fred Holborn lectures to the group of staff ride participants in an ampitheater in Gallipoli.
 Sudent thespians now have what they never had before—a professionally run “black box” theater complete with nicely appointed dressing rooms and an area for constructing sets. A new digital media center offers students the technological resources to design Web sites, edit digital videos, burn CDs, and create three-dimensional computer models, among other things. There is also a new darkroom for photography, music practice rooms, a dance room, and space—long-sought-after meeting and office space—for Homewood’s student activity groups.
And then there are the visual art studios. The Homewood Art Workshops, consigned since 1974 to the cramped and nearly windowless basement of Merryman Hall, now sprawls across the sunlight-strewn top floor of the center’s Ross Jones Building.
Homewood’s new Mattin Center—a sleek, three-building, glass-and-stone “creative chrysalis”—is, in the words of President Brody, “writing a new chapter in the history of the Homewood campus.”
Three Nursing Practice Labs are available at the School of Nursing to provide the student with an opportunity to gain experience and confidence in performing a wide variety
of nursing technologies.
Patient care stations in
the laboratories, designed to closely approximate inpatient areas and stocked with necessary supplies, are available for students to practice
both basic and advanced nursing technologies. Practice using actual hospital equipment is an integral part of the laboratory experience and patient simulators are provided to facilitate clinical skill mastery.
Additionally, students receive individual instruction and guidance in the performance of key nursing technologies including vital signs, medication administration, intravenous therapy, and sterile technique.
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With the June 2000 conclusion of its Initiative fund-raising campaign, Johns Hopkins became the sixth U.S. university to raise over $1.5 billion in a single campaign. The Johns Hopkins Initiative raised $1.52 billion in gifts and commitments, substantially strengthening and stabilizing the Institutions’ financial position.
The Initiative’s remarkable success raised for Hopkins a total of $859.7 million in commitments for endowment and capital projects, as well as $660.3 million for program support. Of these total funds, $162.8 million was designated for student aid. Gifts and pledges to Johns Hopkins Medicine—comprising the School of Medicine and the Hospital and Health System—accounted for $703.8 million, 46% of the total committed during the Initiative.
The Johns Hopkins Initiative drew unprecedented support from more than 100,000 alumni, friends, corporations, foundations, and other organizations. Fiscal year 2000 brought record-setting cash receipts from private donors—including new gifts and payments on pledges—of $304 million. This established a new single-year record for cash receipts—up nearly 47% over the previous year. With continuing this momentum in mind, the Board of Trustees voted to begin a new campaign on July 1, 2000, with a likely duration of seven years. The public announcement of this new campaign is planned for May 2002.
Given the institutional needs and the opportunities that now exist, the administration will continue to work unceasingly to bring Johns Hopkins the continued support it merits from alumni and friends. Ongoing fund raising continues to focus on priorities of the Johns Hopkins Initiative, while also addressing emerging needs. The top priorities of the last campaign were endowment for student aid and the libraries, as well as support for facilities.
Despite the Initiative’s accomplishments, Johns Hopkins’ endowment continues to be below that of many peer institutions. At the 1994 start of the Initiative campaign, the Hopkins endowment ranked 20th among U.S. colleges and universities; seven years later, it was 23rd, despite the fact that its endowment had increased from $600 million to $1.5 billion. Thus, fund-raising efforts at Johns Hopkins will continue to focus on endowment gifts as a priority.
Student aid also remains a pressing need throughout the Institutions, as Hopkins seeks to attract the best students and to ensure that they can afford a Hopkins education.
Endowment for the Sheridan Libraries, as well as expanded resources for the Welch Medical Library and other divisional libraries, was also an institutional priority during the Initiative resulting in considerable progress, including the establishment of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library’s Digital Knowledge Center, which serves as the library’s information technology research and development department. With the cost of materials rising faster than inflation, and with the ever-growing demand for electronic enhancements of library services, the need to invest in these vital resources remains an urgent fund-raising concern.
Finally, the emphasis placed by the Initiative on buildings and facilities across the Institutions is continuing. Funds raised during the Initiative provided support for the recently opened Harry and Jeanette Weinberg and Bunting-Blaustein cancer buildings at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, the Anne M. Pinkard Building which provides a permanent home for the School of Nursing, a new research and teaching space at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Griswold Hall recital facility at the Peabody Institute. At Homewood, engineering facilities have been modernized, and the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center was purchased and renovated. The Mattin Center, which supports student arts and activities, was dedicated in April 2001; a biomedical engineering building, Clark Hall, was dedicated in October 2001; and a student recreation center is nearly complete. Construction of a new classroom building, Hodson Hall, is under way while several new buildings are critically needed for the Hospital and School of Medicine. Furthermore, renovations and additions are under way at Peabody. Major renovations of academic buildings at Homewood also are needed.
Johns Hopkins has heightened its commitment to increase the base of alumni support through gifts to the schools’ annual funds. In 2000, the Krieger School and the Whiting School combined their annual giving programs for undergraduate alumni into a single Hopkins Fund, in which both schools invested significant resources. The Hopkins Fund raised nearly $1.8 million, and surpassed the previous year’s total with three months remaining in the fiscal year. The spirit of the Hopkins Fund—and increased emphasis on annual fund gifts and alumni participation—will be a hallmark as similar efforts are organized for other University divisions.
In fiscal year 2001 $347.7 million was raised—including new gifts and payments on pledges—which represents an increase of 14.4% over last year’s activity. FY 2001 has yielded many exciting opportunities and developments across the divisions.
Most remarkably, an anonymous donor committed $100 million to the Bloomberg School of Public Health (renamed this year from the School of Hygiene and Public Health) to establish the Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute. The Bloomberg School also benefited from two awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: $21.4 million to promote the development of a new type of measles vaccine and $20 million to find the precise combination of vitamins and other micronutrients that will most effectively save lives and prevent illness among impoverished mothers and children in the developing world.
Within the Bioethics Institute, a commitment of $2 million will establish a new professorship in Bioethics and Public Policy.
Johns Hopkins Medicine has received from anonymous donors several generous gifts which include $58.5 million for the launch of the Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE) and $30 million for the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences (IBBS). Additional gifts to Medicine included $3 million for an endowed Professorship in Urologic Pathology, as well as for an accompanying research fund; a $3 million bequest from Sarah Hall Sayler for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment and the cancer buildings; a $2.6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the school’s continued participation in the foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program; $2.5 million from an anonymous donor for chemoprotection research in Basic Sciences; a $2.2 million research award from the Avon Products Foundation to support breast cancer research and treatment for medically underserved women in the Oncology Center; $2 million to create the Kyle Haydock Professorship in Pediatric Oncology; $2 million to create a new Professorship in Adult Medicine in support of colon cancer research; a $2 million bequest from Barbara Flinn Klotz for the new Broadway Research Building; $1.5 million toward a named Professorship in Medicine to support stem cell research; a $1.3 million grant for the Children’s Center from the Theodore and Vada Stanley Foundation; $1.3 million for clinical care and research in pediatric endocrinology in the Children’s Center; $1.2 million from a family foundation for the Department of Urology; $1 million to establish an endowed fellowship and Resource Center for Diabetes; $1 million for ARVD (arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia or sudden cardiac death) research; a $1 million lead trust for pediatric emergency services; $1 million for diabetes research; and $1million to benefit the Center for Avascular Necrosis in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
The Wilmer Eye Institute announced a generous commitment to support research in genetic and molecular ophthalmology; $1 million for macular degeneration research; $1 million to support the Walter J. Stark Corneal Research Fund; $1 million to create an endowment in corneal diseases; and
$1 million for the library at the Wilmer Eye Institute.
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Bloomberg School will both benefit from two additional grants: a generous gift from a family foundation designated for six different medical research initiatives: bioethics, diseases of the eye and patient-physician trust, clinical medicine professorship, gastrointestinal surgery, ophthalmology, and prostate cancer; and $3.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the Center for Civilian Biodefense, a collaborative program between the two divisions.
The Whiting School of Engineering announced this fiscal year an anonymous $10 million “seed” gift for the establishment of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, a University-wide research center to tackle the complex technological, legal, ethical, and public policy challenges of keeping information private and computer systems secure in an increasingly electronic world.
In the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, an alumnus has committed $2 million to endow a professorship in modern Jewish history in the new Jewish Studies Program. The Krieger School has also received $1.7 million from the estate of alumna Dorothy L. Thomson; $1 million from an alumni couple for an endowed scholarship and the Dean’s use; a $1 million grant from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in support of a multi-year project in the Department of Sociology to assess the effects on American families of reforms in federal welfare policies; and $1 million from the Ford Foundation for the Institute for Policy Studies.
An anonymous $4 million commitment will fund two professorships at SAIS, and a $3.9 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts will provide for the continuation and expansion of the Pew International Journalism Program.
Additional leadership gifts this year include a $10 million anonymous gift for renovations at the Peabody Institute, and at the School of Nursing
$1.2 million from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation to fund community health nursing efforts in Baltimore City.
Gifts received during fiscal year 2001 directly benefited teaching, research, student life, and patient care. In addition, these gifts helped both increase the financial stability and provide the flexibility the Johns Hopkins Institutions need to ensure continued leadership and innovation.
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