The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the heart of the Johns Hopkins University, housing the disciplines of the humanities and natural and social sciences from which all other courses of study stem. In 2000, the Krieger School announced its Knowledge for the World campaign. This important effort establishes support for key school priorities:

. . . . . educating students. Students and faculty work together on the most pressing and demanding problems of our day. Undergraduate scholarships ensure that students of promise are able to benefit from a Hopkins education regardless of their financial means. Graduate education is the starting point of the creation of new knowledge. Graduate fellowships enable us continue to recruit the brightest graduate students from across the country, securing the quality of teaching and research in our university. Innovative new programming such as the Center for Financial Economics allow us to meet the changing educational needs of students entering today’s marketplace with Hopkins’ time-tested rigorous curriculum.

. . . . . .advancing the frontiers of knowledge. Astronomers, physicists, earth scientists, and archeologists at the Krieger School look back thousands, even billions, of years to understand the world. Our writers, linguists, and artists help us to appreciate our place in it. Economists, sociologists, and political scientists examine and improve schools, businesses, and public institutions. No matter the discipline, our faculty members routinely set the agendas in their fields. Named professorships are strategic tools in maintaining the intellectual stature of our departments and scholarly impact that transcends their small size. Professorships enable us to attract and retain the most creative, original, and prolific teachers and researchers in a competitive higher education environment; they are critical to our ability to maintain a diverse and exciting academic community.

. . . . . improving the quality of life. Critical thinking and life-long learning are two values that resonate with and inform the Krieger School’s approach to education and scholarship. We believe that these precepts are best served when brilliant people carry on their work in spaces that meet the scholars’ needs and reflect their values. That is why we are investing in two critical capital projects: the renovation of Gilman Hall as a fitting home for a 21st century study of the humanities and the building of Charles Commons, an upperclassmen housing facility that will provide an experience of living in a community in which intellectual exchange outside the classroom and social life are integrated.