Diversity & Inclusion

Our Commitment

Our vision for diversity at Johns Hopkins is for our community to reflect the broad array of human differences found in our society at large. This diversity advances the university’s fundamental role in cultivating students’ capacity for learning—from classes, classmates, and colleagues—and serves as a distinguishing factor in our success. The achievement of this ideal will depend on our ability to create and nourish an environment and culture where people from all backgrounds feel valued, engaged, and empowered to succeed.

We approach the challenge of meaningful change not as a single initiative or moment in time. Rather, this must be a sustained effort across the full range of our strategic priorities, undertaken with the complete support of our university leadership, including our deans, cabinet, and board of trustees, and communicated within our community in a manner that reflects the ethos and aspiration of this endeavor.

The efforts to sustain a diverse and inclusive community at Johns Hopkins depend on each of us—how we handle everyday interactions on campus; how we teach or learn as our own ideas are tested; how we listen to each other. Each of us must play our part in addressing needs and disparities on our campuses, within our city, and beyond.

Diversity at Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University is deeply committed to the dignity and equality of all persons—inclusive of sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and veteran status.

“Diversity of people, thought, experience, and background is fundamental to the mission of this university. We are committed to recruiting a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff, and to cultivating an inclusive environment that supports, fosters and celebrates all the ways in which the broad differences among us make us better.”

Diversity at Development & Alumni Relations (DAR)

In September 2020, DAR established a Diversity Advisory Council to focus on Diversity, Race, Inclusion, Vulnerability, and Equity (“D.R.I.V.E”) within the division. 

The mission of DRIVE is to actively and intentionally promote and foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and cultural competence within the DAR community, its constituents (alumni, donors, and volunteers), and initiatives.  In keeping with the larger Johns Hopkins Institutions commitment, DRIVE is deeply committed to ensuring its DEI initiatives are in support of the dignity and equality of all persons—inclusive of sex, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and veteran status.

DRIVE focuses its work on three important objectives: 1) learning and training, 2) recruitment, development, and retention, and 3) collaborations and communications.