In StuCo visit, Brody discusses issues at JHU
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers President Brody’s discussion with the Student Council about university issues.
- The News-Letter reported that Brody discussed the engineering dean search, the budget, student advising and Hopkins’ effort to keep awarding Division I lacrosse scholarships.
- The paper reported that Brody expected the engineering dean search to take another nine months and said Hopkins and IBM were discussing high-performance computers for medical and biology research.
- The article adds that Brody discussed possible future layoffs and budget tightening, while saying that “the finances are being managed as responsibly as possible.”
- The reporter writes that Brody described lacrosse as the “biggest challenge” and said Hopkins would support reform but not conformity at the NCAA convention.
- According to the article, students raised concerns about advising, while most agreed that university expansion would require more facilities and faculty; the meeting also included plans for a club night and an information session on elections for ethnic organizations.