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Undergraduate education

Students sitting in the audience of an MSE Symposium lecture
'A new experience of wow'
Published Jan 23, 2023
Upperclassmen reflect on their first semester free of COVID-19 restrictions since spring 2020
Demere Woolway and Michael Falk
Undergraduate education
Course examines sexual and gender identity in STEM
Published Dec 1, 2022
In First Year Seminar, Johns Hopkins undergrads explore the history of LGBTQ people in STEM and how science in turn affects the lives of LGBTQ people
Jessie Kanacharoen created these photoshop images of the Beach on the Homewood campus surrounded by smog and turned into a literal beach
Undergraduate education
Embrace the change
Published June 21, 2021
In a semester when the world still felt hemmed in by the virtual nature of most interactions, Krieger School faculty and teaching assistants had to draw on their creativity to connect with students through screens
Keyser Quad on the university's Homewood campus
University operations
University leaders provide spring semester planning update
Published Oct 1, 2020
In a message to undergraduate students, Provost Sunil Kumar and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Alanna Shanahan discuss the principles guiding decision-making
Gilman clock tower
University operations
Undergraduate instruction, activities move online for fall
Published Aug 6, 2020
Students urged to stay home due to resurgence of COVID-19; JHU increasing financial aid and other supports to offset pandemic's burden
Professor in class
Undergraduate education
Committee outlines new model for undergrad education at JHU
Published Feb 5, 2020
Members of the Hopkins community invited to share feedback on CUE2 draft report online or in person
FLI students in a classroom
JHU strengthens support for FLI students
Published May 16, 2019
FLI Network, launched last summer, connects first-generation and limited-income students with resources for college success
Carl Wieman
Undergraduate education
Nobel laureate touts 'active' science learning
Published April 12, 2018
Stanford physicist Carl Wieman speaks at event hosted by Second Commission on Undergraduate Education
Student study and socialize in a JHU campus coffee shop
CUE2
Over coffee, students help shape undergrad experience
Published Feb 14, 2018
At 'Coffee with the Co-Chairs' events, undergrads speak directly to administrators about student life and learning
Jonathan Cole
Q+A
Higher education's changing landscape
Published Nov 27, 2017
A conversation with Columbia sociologist Jonathan Cole, one of the country's leading thinkers on higher ed reform