Interview with President Ronald J. Daniels: freedom of expression, diversity in admissions, policing and more
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 government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on an interview with Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels about expression, policing, admissions and other university issues.
- The paper reported that Daniels said the university supports broad expression and protest, but permits limits when protests disrupt operations, damage property or create harassment risks.
- The article says Daniels described the planned police force as a 100-person department created under 27 pages of detailed legislation.
- The reporter writes that the SGA and cultural groups raised concerns about lower racial diversity after the affirmative-action ruling; Daniels called the change a setback and said Pell Grant students made up 23.8% of the first-year class.
- The article adds that Daniels said the Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., hosted more than 500 events in its first year.
- According to the article, Daniels said the new Data Science and Artificial Intelligence program will support research across the university and could help create companies and jobs in Baltimore.