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Board of Trustees elects Pam Flaherty its first female president
Issue date: 9/13/07
This past summer, Pam P. Flaherty took office as first female chair of the Johns Hopkins board of trustees. In addition to being the first woman elected to lead the board, she is also the first graduate of Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to hold the position.
Though one may suggest the influence of the Committee on the Status of Women's report on the deficiency of female administrators in the University on the recent appointments of a female provost and a female chair of the board, University officials maintain it was mere coincidence.
"At this time - as the University is making a solid commitment to achieving diversity, particularly in leadership positions - it is an added bonus that Pam is a woman. She is a role model and an inspiration for other Hopkins women," President William Brody said in a press release.
Flaherty believes that her most important job is to support the University administration. Among Flaherty and Brody's main goals are to extend diversity within the university, to focus on funding research, as well as the most directly relevant initiative concerning students: making Hopkins a more affordable university.
The board is already in the process of discussing tuition and financial aid in an effort to find a plan that best works for the University. Administrators are working on fundraising for scholarships and managing their costs.
Flaherty said that by building new facilities and increasing financial aid now, the school has become more efficient and productive for the future, so that over the long run it will be able to more sufficiently balance all costs and provide more aid and lower tuitions to all students.
"This is the great challenge of higher education as a whole. It's run as a business," Flaherty said.
This business mindset is both a detriment to the students and a necessity to the University. It is a balance between the two that the board hopes to accomplish.
Though one may suggest the influence of the Committee on the Status of Women's report on the deficiency of female administrators in the University on the recent appointments of a female provost and a female chair of the board, University officials maintain it was mere coincidence.
"At this time - as the University is making a solid commitment to achieving diversity, particularly in leadership positions - it is an added bonus that Pam is a woman. She is a role model and an inspiration for other Hopkins women," President William Brody said in a press release.
Flaherty believes that her most important job is to support the University administration. Among Flaherty and Brody's main goals are to extend diversity within the university, to focus on funding research, as well as the most directly relevant initiative concerning students: making Hopkins a more affordable university.
The board is already in the process of discussing tuition and financial aid in an effort to find a plan that best works for the University. Administrators are working on fundraising for scholarships and managing their costs.
Flaherty said that by building new facilities and increasing financial aid now, the school has become more efficient and productive for the future, so that over the long run it will be able to more sufficiently balance all costs and provide more aid and lower tuitions to all students.
"This is the great challenge of higher education as a whole. It's run as a business," Flaherty said.
This business mindset is both a detriment to the students and a necessity to the University. It is a balance between the two that the board hopes to accomplish.
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Agnes Marcellina
posted 9/08/08 @ 8:21 PM EST
I would like to ask how to be able to send a letter to Mrs. Pamela P. Flaherty. I need to report to her what is going on that Citibank has done to its client here in my country. (Continued…)
Tony McArdle
posted 7/21/09 @ 9:10 AM EST
I have tried without success to send an email to Pamela Flahertyy at Citibank.
The citibank system is understandly security conscious but if someone can send me Ms. (Continued…)
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