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2025

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On statements on external matters by departments, centers and institutes

October 27, 2025

In August 2024, we shared our decision, endorsed by the deans, to adopt a posture of restraint for public statements made on behalf of the institution in response to global, national, or local events.

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Johns Hopkins launches student innovation fund to promote on-campus dialogue

October 14, 2025

Johns Hopkins University is launching a new initiative to support undergraduate and graduate student efforts to promote respectful on-campus dialogue.

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Academic leaders explore ways to enhance civic thought in higher education

June 6, 2025

A conference co-hosted by Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute raises challenges and solutions for cultivating informed and engaged citizens through university-level civic education.

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Johns Hopkins works to bolster intellectual pluralism across the university

April 21, 2025

For more than a year, Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute—a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C.—have been building bridges to facilitate collaborative work between interested scholars in both institutions.

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Call for applications: Dialogue Innovation Fund

February 4, 2025

The faculty-driven grant program supports endeavors to incorporate dialogue across difference into the classroom and campus life.

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Johns Hopkins, Open to Debate partner for two-year live debate series

January 15, 2025

The first debate, on the future of the Supreme Court, will be held at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center on Jan. 29 with Jeff Sessions, Jeff Flake, Christina Rodriguez, and Jamal Greene.

2024

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New initiative to nurture ‘the skills and habits of dialogue across difference’

October 30, 2024

From residence hall programming to new grants for faculty, Johns Hopkins University will expand on its history of reaching across divides with new dialogue endeavor.

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The Longest Table returns for second year

October 22, 2024

Johns Hopkins hosted its second-annual Longest Table event, renewing a unique dining and dialogue experience aimed at fostering connections and community across the university.

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University focuses on dialogue, education, community building to support students

October 6, 2024

Students are reminded to recognize the humanity in each other as they work through conflict on difficult topics, talk across differences, and learn from one another.

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How two partisan enemies became friends

September 16, 2024

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh and Fred Guttenberg told their story of how two people who are diametrically opposed on politics and policy can lower the temperature and start listening to one another.

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Resources for free expression available online

September 12, 2024

In support of free expression, the university updated its resources to provide information, clarifications, and rules for protests and demonstrations.

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A duty of care

September 3, 2024

At convocation this year, President Daniels spoke of the importance of recognizing the humanity of others, including when they hold views, beliefs, and values that are divergent from our own.

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On institutional statements from the university

August 15, 2024

University leaders articulate a restrained approach to issuing public statements.

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Johns Hopkins professor, students debate Israel’s future

May 16, 2024

Steven David’s course offers students the opportunity to share thoughtful opinions on a major conflict of our time.

2023

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