Our Mission
Our mission at the Alumni Association is simple - we're here to help enrich your alumni experience and to strengthen your connections with the global Johns Hopkins alumni community.
Our Founding
The Alumni Association’s story began about 10 years after the start of the university itself, when, on April 26, 1886, two alumni proposed that a committee draw up a plan for an association. Early the next year, the proposed committee delivered their report to assembled alumni. The report was well received, and the first officers of the newly born Alumni Association were elected. Those assembled then convened at a local establishment where they ate, drank, and reminisced, a tradition they continued each year thereafter and we have happily continued.
Within five years of its founding, the Association founded its first two chapters outside of Baltimore — New York City and Washington, D.C. — and strengthened its organizational ties to alumni throughout the country.
The first years also witnessed the establishment of “a great bond of union” between alumni and students. “The whole student body,” the class of 1891 observed, “will find it both pleasant and profitable to keep in close contact with the graduates of the university... and active interest thus evoked will strengthen all the natural ties of sympathy and fellowship.”
The spirit of giving which has come to characterize Johns Hopkins alumni was also born early on in our history. As representatives of the class of 1895 wrote, “the association has work to perform: the centralization of earnest, loyal zeal for the university. This purpose could only be affected by alumni themselves when they join with one another in a united effort.”
Our Future
Today, the Alumni Association continues to create meaningful experiences for you to connect with fellow alumni, current students, and faculty, and to support you at every phase of your Johns Hopkins alumni journey.
We invite you to become an active participant in the future of the Alumni Association and our Hopkins community. Consider getting involved, today.
2020 - 2025 Alumni Relations Strategic Plan
Through the work of the Strategic Planning Committee, the Alumni Engagement Strategic Plan highlights four overarching priorities that will guide the work of Alumni Relations offices across all nine academic divisions through 2025.
Read the full plan