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Construction workers cut plywood outside Mason Hall at Johns Hopkins. The renovation project will be completed earlier than anticipated.
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The Johns Hopkins mascot used to be the blue jay. Now, it’s the crane.
If you didn’t live through all the construction over the past few years at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, that joke, dropped by University President William Brody, would be a little hard to visualize over the finished product — a new green quad flanked by Georgian brick and marble pillars.
The contrast to what used to be there is striking.
“When I came here, we had asphalt roads all through the campus, cars driving through, parking all over. It really was a noisy campus,” Brody said. “We had this grand plan to move all the cars off campus, replace the asphalt with something water-pervious like brick. I said at the time that it was a 25-year master plan that will be my successor’s successor’s project. Through the generosity of some of our board, we’re working on the last building now.”
That would be Mason Hall for Undergraduate Admissions. It’s the first building visible when climbing out of the new underground parking garage, and it also houses the university’s first visitors center.
Another new addition, the Computational Sciences and Engineering Building, will house interdisciplinary work in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering.
“Altogether, this Decker Quad project is a new front door to the Homewood campus, and it has been designed to be welcoming,” university spokesman Dennis O’Shea said.
Mason Hall is named after Raymond A. “Chip” Mason, trustee emeritus and former chairman of the university’s board of trustees.
Behind Mason Hall sits the Alonzo G. and Virginia G. Decker Quadrangle, named after the longtime chairman and CEO of Black and Decker Corp., who served 30 years on the board of trustees and died in 2002.
The project began in July 2005.
khille@baltimoreexaminer.com
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The Maryland State Board of Nursing should let LPN's do the MD degrees not just BSN on line... The Associates On-line degree program is only 12-18 months long to complete, compared to 18-24 months for the MD. And it costs half as much to acquire....Some of our dedicated nurses are moving to other states to complete MD programs. Many don't come back to Maryland to work.I like it that way. And I promise not to delete anyone else's comment ever again
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The Maryland State Board of Nursing should let LPN's do the RN Associates degrees not just BSN on line... The Associates On-line degree program is only 12-18 months long to complete. Compared to 18-24 months for BSN. And it costs half as much to acquire....Some of our dedicated nurses are moving to other states to complete programs. Many don't come back to Maryland to work.
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Over the last 20 years or more "Baltimore City School System," has been under the microscope of Judge Garbish (Special Education). Morgan, Johns Hopkin, Coppin, all have had opportunities as research institutions to address this major educational problem and the poverty rate, un-employment, single mothers crime. Coppin has had its misfortunes, and attracted low quality of instructors whom are not concerned with the social economical, educational, problems that plague the Urban Inner City youth. Poverty is a key element in Baltimore City. Politicians does not give a hoot of the demographics nor the incidents of poverty across the city. The fourth count census 2000 is a clear in measuring how people live. African Americans are left out of the loop "Johns Hopkins are the main architect to disenfranchise the poor, disadvantaged. They are the major research institution in Maryland from all indications the African American community is ignored by the major players.
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Excellent and informative series that parents and students can use to decide on a Maryland college or university. Thanks!
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