Penn Provost Ronald Daniels to become 14th President of the Johns Hopkins University - The New Face of Hopkins
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 phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on Ronald Daniels’s selection as the university’s next president.
- The News-Letter reported that the Board of Trustees chose Daniels after a seven-month search involving more than 300 candidates.
- The paper reported that Daniels would replace William Brody in March, when Brody would become president of the Salk Institute.
- The article says the search committee included students, faculty, administrators and trustees, and interviewed finalists in New York to keep the process confidential.
- The reporter writes that SGA President Sonny Chandrasekhar said Daniels was enthusiastic about working with undergraduates and that he was “really excited to get some fresh opinions.”
- According to the article, Daniels said it was too early to discuss specific policies, but that learning the institution would be his immediate priority.
- The article adds that, while dean of the University of Toronto’s law school, Daniels helped increase its endowment from $1 million to $57 million over nine years.