Johns Hopkins faculty pushes against cuts prompted by pandemic

By The Associated Press
June 23, 2020 | 11:38 AM

BALTIMORE — The faculty at Johns Hopkins University is demanding that the Baltimore school provide a detailed report of its finances and put a moratorium on the cuts to research funding and staffing salaries announced in April.

The Baltimore Sun on Monday reported 600 faculty made the demands last week in a letter.

They wrote they believe the private institution’s financial health can be maintained without “undermining the work it was created to enable.”

The university has played a prominent role in tracking the spread of the coronavirus.

But like other colleges, it is facing financial challenges because of the public health emergency.

Howard University president says more than 200 students readmitted after mass unenrollment

By The Associated Press
July 29, 2026 | 6:20 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The interim president of Howard University said over 200 of the more than 500 first-year incoming students who were unenrolled for the fall semester have been readmitted to the Washington, D.C. school. In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Wayne A. I. Frederick defended the way the historically Black university handled the initial unenrollment, saying many students and their families apparently misunderstood the communicated financial obligations they were expected to meet before the start of instruction in August. “There were no issues as far as what we communicated," Frederick said, adding that the school had been clear since March about unpaid balances for tuition that were due by mid-July. Students who were unenrolled for financial reasons had outstanding tuition balances after their financial aid and scholarships were applied, he said. Others were unenrolled because of unreported immunizations.

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