Following are selected highlights of President William R. Brody's 1996-2008 tenure at The Johns Hopkins University:
Undergraduate Education
* Brody created a university-wide Commission on Undergraduate Education and focused the university's decennial accreditation self-study on undergraduate issues. * Under Brody's leadership, the university created the position of Homewood campus dean of undergraduate education and vice provost to implement the commission and self-study recommendations. * During Brody's tenure, the university has built new residential, art and recreational facilities; enhanced programs aimed at building campus community; inaugurated popular academic programs such as museum studies, theater, and entrepreneurship and management; strengthened security measures on campus and in adjacent neighborhoods; and created new opportunities for undergraduates to take part in original research. * Brody's administration also appointed a campus task force on the arts, leading to appointment of the first vice provost for the arts and implementation of many new curricular and extracurricular arts-related initiatives. * During Brody's tenure, applications for the freshman class at Homewood have grown from 8,510 in 1996, the year he arrived, to 15,950 for the fall of 2008. Academics and Research
* The university in 2007 established the Carey Business School and the School of Education. * Awards and honors for full-time faculty during Brody's tenure include two Nobel Prizes, three MacArthur "genius grant" fellowships, three Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, one National Book Award, one Kennedy Center Honors Award, three National Medals of Science, one National Humanities Medal, one National Medal of Technology and several Grammy nominations. * New interdisciplinary academic and research centers include, among many others, the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, the Center for Financial Economics, the Brain Science Institute, the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, the Center for Africana Studies, the Center for Global Health, the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, the Information Security Institute, the Institute for Cell Engineering and the Malaria Research Institute. * The university's research and development work in science and engineering grew almost 95 percent from $798.5 million in fiscal year 1996, the year before Brody became president, to $1.554 billion in fiscal 2007. Through fiscal 2006, the latest year for which national rankings are available, Johns Hopkins has led U.S. academic institutions in total R&D spending for 28 straight years. * During the past eight years, the Applied Physics Laboratory – working for NASA – has landed a spacecraft on an asteroid, sent one probe toward Pluto and another toward Mercury, and launched the two STEREO satellites to get measurements of the Sun in three dimensions. Community Relations
* Under Brody's direction, Johns Hopkins has been one of the lead partners in the New EastSide project, an urban revitalization designed to provide housing, jobs, commerce and schools and build a diverse mixed-income community in a formerly blighted area north of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions campus. Johns Hopkins has made significant cash and non-cash contributions. * Brody established the Urban Health Institute to focus Johns Hopkins resources on community health problems in East Baltimore. * To support the Baltimore public schools, Brody created the Baltimore Scholars Program, which already invests more than $2 million a year in tuition waivers for graduates of city schools. That figure will increase as the program grows. * With support from the president, Johns Hopkins created the position of community liaison and compliance officer at the Homewood campus to work proactively to defuse tensions between students and community residents. Complaints about student behavior have fallen significantly since the position was established in 2005. Finance and Economic Impact
* The university's endowment has grown from $982.6 million in 1996, the year he arrived, to $2.8 billion in 2007. * Johns Hopkins University employment of Maryland residents increased nearly 43 percent from 1996 to 2006. * In 2006, the Johns Hopkins Institutions (the university together with the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System) generated $10 billion in income for the Maryland economy, a 43 percent increase in just four years from the 2002 level of $7 billion. * The university's fiscal year 2008 budget is $3.39 billion, up 124 percent from the $1.51 billion budget in fiscal 1996, the year before he arrived. Fundraising
* Under Brody, Johns Hopkins completed a $1.52 billion campaign in 2000; the original goal was $900 million. * The Knowledge for the World campaign now under way has raised more than $3.1 billion to date; its original goal was $2 billion. Its new goal is $3.2 billion by the end of 2008. The campaign's priorities are endowment for student aid and faculty support; research, academic, and clinical initiatives; and the building and upgrading of facilities on all Johns Hopkins campuses * Nine of the 10 largest gifts in Johns Hopkins history have been made during Brody's tenure. Facilities
A few examples of the many university facilities completed or extensively renovated during Brody's time in office: * At the Homewood campus: Student facilities such as Charles Commons, the Mattin Center, the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center and the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center. Research and academic buildings such as Hodson Hall, New Chemistry, Clark Hall and the Computational Science and Engineering Building. Outdoor amenities such as the Decker Quadrangle and the "Great Excavations" landscaping project. A new admissions and visitor center, Mason Hall. * At the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore: The Anne M. Pinkard Building (home of the School of Nursing), the multi-building Bloomberg School of Public Health expansion, the Broadway Research Building, the Bunting-Blaustein and David Koch Cancer Research Buildings.
* A $27 million makeover transforming the aging physical plant of the Peabody Institute into one of the best music conservatory facilities in the world. * Expansion of the Montgomery County Campus to three buildings; a new, larger Downtown Center in Baltimore; the 11-story Samuel Pollard Building at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies; the Bernstein-Offit Building in Washington, D.C. Diversity
* Brody appointed the Diversity Leadership Council as one of the first major acts of his presidency. * The university has adopted a goal of gender equity in composition of the faculty and senior leadership positions. At present, three of seven vice presidents and four of nine vice provosts are women. * The representation of underrepresented minorities in the university-wide undergraduate population has increased 64 percent, from 9.2 percent in the year before Brody arrived to 15.1 percent today. At Homewood, the representation of underrepresented minorities in the freshman class has more than doubled since 2001, from less than 7 percent to more than 14 percent. * The university's admissions offices have adopted a wide range of strategies for reaching out to potential minority students and have made recruitment of underrepresented minorities a high priority. * Brody's university-wide Commission on Equity, Civility and Respect will have recommendations soon on a comprehensive university-wide diversity education program, building on success in the School of Medicine and recent new initiatives on the Homewood campus. Advocacy on National and Global Issues
* As co-chair of the National Innovation Initiative (with Intel Chairman Craig Barrett), Brody helped shaped the debate on competitiveness and innovation that culminated in 2007 with the passage of the America COMPETES Act. * Brody advocated strengthening the nation's science, math, engineering, and technology talent base through strong federal support of basic research in the physical and life sciences. * Believing the United States should have access to the best talent in the world, Brody has been an advocate for immigration reform. Serving on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the FBI National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, he has promoted the importance of keeping the United States a welcoming place for international students and scholars.
* Brody has written extensively about U.S. health care and become a leading voice on reform and an outspoken advocate for a better, safer, more cost-effective system. Brody has worked to broaden the dialogue on health care reform and focus the debate on issues such as quality and consistency of care, the complexity of the health care system, and the need to focus on chronic illness. * Brody chaired the NIH Working Group on Construction of Research Facilities (2000–2001), charged with recommending how the nation's biomedical infrastructure could be updated to make the most of the then-recent federal commitment to doubling of the NIH budget.
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