Daniels reflects on how to improve campus culture
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Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on an interview with President Ronald J. Daniels about campus policing, sexual violence, fossil fuels and campus culture.
- The News-Letter reported that Daniels said work on the police department’s agreement with Baltimore police had stalled during the search for a new security vice president; he said the draft would be public and an outside consultant might be hired if delays continued.
- The paper reported that the police accountability board would include five unaffiliated community members and 10 Hopkins students, faculty members and staff, after more than 125 meetings with stakeholder groups.
- The article adds that 43 percent of survey respondents believed campus officials would conduct fair investigations, while Daniels said the results showed some improvement but were not at a satisfactory level.
- The reporter writes that the Student Government Association had called for reforms to the Office of Institutional Equity, while Daniels said the office’s budget and staff had more than doubled since 2015.
- According to the article, Daniels said fossil-fuel divestment would require significant new arguments or data, while the University planned to buy 253,000 megawatt hours of solar power each year starting in 2021.
- The paper says 18 percent of Hopkins students felt very or extremely connected to campus culture; Daniels said the University was considering changes including new student spaces, curriculum reforms and support for arts groups after the Mattin Center’s destruction.