Dean of Homewood enrollment
named
William Conley has been appointed dean of Homewood
enrollment and academic services, a new position for the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School
of Engineering.
As half of the team responsible for
undergraduateconcerns, he will oversee Undergraduate
Admissions, Student Financial Services, the Office of the
Registrar, Academic Advising for Arts and Sciences,
Pre-Professional Advising and the Career Center. His
counterpart in what was formerly Homewood Student Affairs is
Susan Boswell, dean of student life, who directs nonacademic
services.
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First dean of faculty appointed at
SAIS
Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of
International Political Economy at SAIS, has been named
the school's dean of faculty, a new and temporary
appointment. The position, effective immediately, reports to
SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn, who began her tenure on June
1.
For the next two academic years, Fukuyama
will work with Einhorn, the associate deans and the faculty
on a "collegial mapping" of the school's future. According
to Einhorn, Fukuyama has been given the overarching task of
reviewing SAIS's programs and curriculum.
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What if...? Crisis plans under
study
In a simulation room at APL, the unthinkable is becoming
real: A chemical tank explodes at Bayview Medical Center,
contaminating a vital portion of the facility; a nuclear
"dirty bomb" is detonated in downtown Baltimore, a scenario
ripped right from the the summer's big-screen release The
Sum of All Fears.
The architects and witnesses to these
"desktop" calamities are a group of university and hospital
administrators and APL staff singularly focused on one
overriding question, the one that has echoed in the ear of
James Zeller, a member of the university's Committee on
Crisis Management and chair of the its Crisis Response Team
for the past two and a half years: How would Hopkins respond
to a major crisis?
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