Exec Deans Meeting 4/27

114th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Academic Deans Meeting #1

27 April, 2026 / 2:00 PM / Bloomberg Student Center

1. Attendance
   1. Absent Excused
   2. Present
   3. Faculty
2. Agenda Items
   1. Introductions
      1. Dean Krieger Chris
      2. Dean Whiting Ed
      3. Michael (VP)
   2. Meeting accessibility
   3. Midterm week/exam periods
      1. Sumi refers to past meetings about midterm exam periods
      2. Micheal
         1. Commission on undergrad education led to final week
         2. Hard to coordinate across classes with diverse schedules and content
         3. Maybe create more formal policy for exam overlapping
            1. Jazz - physics and chem back to back allowed for rescheduling, policy that should be
            2. Amy - chem be overlapping exams with professors unwilling to change
         4. Centralized system of syllabi, exists for finals → exam week now just one exam
      3. Ed
         1. Exam dates available at beginning of semester
         2. If we got all faculty to coordinate a midterm week, would that stress be more?
         3. What constitutes an exam?
      4. Sienna
         1. Providing completed syllabi at time of course registration (or past course syllabi)
      5. Ed
         1. Working with center for teaching excellence to bring students together to write a synopsis of how to succeed in the class
      6. Nora
         1. Possibility of survey on student opinions about midterm week, how amendendable have professors been, etc
      7. Jazz
         1. Update on credit overload with research credits
   4. Jazz = Deans come to a GBM
      1. Yes they would be down
   5. Expanding one million meetings
   6. Deans townhalls/mettings
      1. We can work on promotion