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2015 –2016 A GUIDE FOR PARENTS produced by in partnership with For more information, please contact Johns Hopkins University Parents Programs 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-3413 web: parents.jhu.edu email: [email protected] About this Guide UniversityParent has published this guide in partnership with Johns Hopkins University with the mission of helping you easily navigate your student’s university with the most timely and relevant information available. contents Discover more articles, tips and local business information by visiting the online guide at: www.universityparent.com/jhu The presence of university/college logos and marks in this guide does not mean the school Johns Hopkins Guide endorses the products or services offered by Comprehensive advice and information for student success advertisers in this guide. | 2995 Wilderness Place, Suite 205 6 | Welcome to Johns Hopkins! 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Dear Hopkins Parent, selective class in Hopkins history. Your The Parents Programs office serves • Visit parents.jhu.edu for parent- student worked very hard to be part of as your important and helpful link to specific information (don’t Hello from the Parents Programs, and the Class of 2019, and we send our best the Johns Hopkins University. We look forget to fill in your Family welcome to the 2015–2016 academic wishes for his or her success. forward to meeting you on the Homewood Information Form!). year! If you are a new parent, we are campus or in your home community. • Join our parent Facebook delighted to have you join the growing We encourage all Hopkins parents to be group at www.facebook.com/ Hopkins family of alumni, students, “ambassadors” and share proudly the Regards, groups/JHUParents. parents, and friends who span the many accomplishments of the University Carol M. Lorton globe. Congratulations on your child’s and its students within their homes and • Reach us at [email protected] or Director, Parents Programs achievement as a member of the most communities. by phone at (410) 516-3413. 6 Johns Hopkins University www.universityparent.com/jhu 7 Become a Hopkins Parent Ambassador Call parents of newly accepted or admitted students to welcome them and serve as a local point of contact. Greet new parents during campus events. Host a Hopkins parent reception with University administration and faculty in your home, club or place of business. Parents.jhu.edu/volunteer Support the Student experience through the Hopkins Parents Fund Help sponsor lecture series, student dinners, campus traditions and many other student enrichment activities by investing in the Hopkins Parents Fund. Over $1M is raised annually to support the undergraduate student experience. Parents.jhu.edu/parents-fund Volunteer with the Hopkins Parents Council Join this parent leadership group whose members support the Hopkins Parents Fund at a leadership level, encourage others to support the fund and act as representatives on campus and in their home communities. Parents.jhu.edu/hpc Help Students Launch their Careers Offer student internships and employment Be Informed through your business, and share career advice and contacts via the Parents Access the Johns Hopkins Parents Johns Hopkins Internship Network ( PIN). 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Charles Street clinicians — one of the campaign’s three Wyman, 700N major thrusts is Enriching the Student Baltimore, MD 21218 Experience. Through donor gifts, the campaign will invest in scholarships and Online giving is available at: fellowships, inspirational learning spaces parents.jhu.edu/parents-fund for collaborative learning and social For gifts of securities, bonds and property, opportunities, and new student programs. contact Gift Planning at (800) 548-1268. These programs will enhance student- Donors of leadership gifts to Parents Fund faculty interaction, ensure diversity on ($5,000 and above) become members of campus, link learning in the classroom the Leadership Giving Circle. to life after graduation, and strengthen Parents Programs Contact Information: connections between students and our Carol M. Lorton surrounding communities. Director, Parents Programs [email protected] Johns Hopkins Parents Fund shares the campaign’s goals. When you support the Margie Carney Enriching the Undergraduate Student Experience Hopkins Parents Fund, you are furthering Associate Director, Parents Programs the cause of the Rising to the Challenge [email protected] Hopkins Parents Fund campaign. Kristina Snyder The Hopkins Parents Fund is vital to have added more opportunities How to Give Coordinator, Parents Programs enhancing student life and providing for building Homewood student [email protected] an important balance to the rigors of community. All parents and grandparents are a Johns Hopkins education. Hopkins encouraged to participate, and help Johns Hopkins University • Academic Initiatives: Opportunities does not charge additional student fees; support the creative initiatives that enliven Wyman 700N/3400 N. Charles Street for student-faculty interaction therefore, it is the gifts from parents and the campus and provide all students Baltimore, MD 21218-2696 outside the classroom include the grandparents that make an immediate and with a comfortable and secure learning (410) 516-3413 popular Dinners with the Deans and important impact toward supporting the environment. (410) 516-8787 Fax activities supported through Faculty student life experience on the Homewood Student Interaction Grants. Students campus. The Parents Fund supports enjoy lectures presented by national myriad student activities and allows for the and global leaders through the creation of new and interesting student MSE Symposium, Conversations in programs that positively impact the quality Medicine and the Foreign Affairs of student life. These initiatives throughout Symposium throughout the year. the year would not otherwise be funded. The Freshman Book Read provides • Student Life: Popular traditions a bonding theme throughout the such as Lighting of the Quads, fall semester. Spring Fair, Signature Class events • Special Projects: Campus artwork, and musical concerts headlining student amenities in Charles national bands all provide social Commons, the renovation of student opportunities throughout the common space such as Wolman year. Most recently, the Blue Jay Hall, and technology enhancements Beach Bash on the first night of in campus communications. classes and the fall HOPtoberFest 10 Johns Hopkins University www.universityparent.com/jhu 11 In addition to the Krieger School of Arts All About and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, the University has seven other academic divisions and campuses Johns Hopkins in the Baltimore-Washington area: the Peabody Institute, a leading music conservatory; the School of Education; the Carey Business School; the Bloomberg School of Public Health; the School of Medicine; the School of Nursing; the research-based Applied Physics Laboratory; and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Our goal is to create new knowledge and innovation that makes an impact on the world. Exploration and discovery have Johns Hopkins is a world leader in always been at the heart of teaching and research, renowned for its commitment to excellence and the undergraduate experience independent inquiry. Our goal is to create at Johns Hopkins. With the new knowledge and innovation that makes guidance of world-renowned an impact on the world, and our students embrace that goal with passion, curiosity, professors and scientists, our and dedication. students challenge the frontiers of every subject imaginable. From the