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An Official Welcome for Graduates Or
perhaps we should say: Welcome back! This page is the beginning of a
long-awaited effort to allow graduates of the Writing Program to re-connect
to Hopkins, to the program, and to each other. As the months go by, this page will be redesigned and will become interactive, allowing you to contact other graduates, join in writing-related chatrooms, and register for upcoming seminars, readings, or other events. Meanwhile, you will see several items of interest, including information about how to submit news about yourself to the program newsletter, how to consider taking a course in the program for half price, and how to request a room at Hopkins for your writing group. We also want to gather updated contact information about program graduates, including email addresses. We will be happy to tell you about upcoming events, if desired. Depending on how long you have been out of the program, you may be interested in several news items: First, Hopkins has retired the old Part-time Graduate Programs name for the more spiffy and less confusing Advanced Academic Programs. We think the name better fits our mission. That means the program's name is no longer the Part-time Graduate Program in Writing. Call us the Master of Arts in Writing Program.(For more information, check out our main website at www.jhu.edu) Second, after years of being tenants in various Massachusetts Avenue buildings, we have a new and permanent university home in Washington. (See below). Third, we are now in our third year of Writing Program courses at the main Homewood campus in Baltimore, making us a genuine two-city program. The program's major enrollment remains in Washington, but course offerings are growing each term at Homewood. Read on! Free Workshop Space Available in New D.C. Building To continue
sharing and improving their writing, graduates of the Writing Program
often form their own private workshops or writing groups. Now, for the
first time in years, Hopkins has free space available for those groups
to meet in Washington. The location is the new Arts & Sciences Building in D.C., at 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW. The building is being renovated now but already includes offices, classrooms, and lounges for students and faculty members. Expected by Fall 2002 are more classrooms, a library and electronic resource center, larger meeting space, and a new entrance and landscaping that will create another major presence in what is becoming a full Hopkins campus in the Dupont Circle area. Beginning immediately,
the new building has available for alumni use a small conference room
that sits up to eight students (six at a table and two others on a nearby
couch). Graduates can request to use this room on a regular basis for
writing groups or workshops. The room will be available during normal
class hours for any given semester. For the summer of 2002, for instance,
that means Monday-Thursday, 5 -10 p.m. The room also may be available
for some lunch or afternoon sessions, depending on interest and staffing.
For more information,
contact Maria Mendez at 202-452-0749 or mmendez@jhu.edu.
For now, the room is available only to program graduates. Even if you
aren't interested in using the room, please drive by or drop in at the
new building. A formal dedication is planned later this year. Discount Tuition Plan Discontinued The Advanced Academic Programs has decided to discontinue its plan to offer program graduates a discounted tuition rate for courses that have space available at the beginning of a term. Alumni rarely used the discount plan, officials said, but graduates sometimes enrolled in courses for the full price so they could guarantee themselves a spot in that class. (The discount plan was only on a space-available basis.) For more information, please call the AAP offices at 202-452-1123 or 410-516-6057. Thank you. Do you have news for our newsletter? We need your help with The Part Times, the program's newsletter. Published each fall and spring for students and alumni, The Part Times features articles on the craft of writing, writing program news, informational articles on program courses, reflections on the program by alumni, and publication or professional achievements by alumni, students, or faculty. The editor is Mark Farrington, D.C. fiction advisor, and anyone - student, graduate, or instructor -- can contribute. If you have publication news from the past year or so, or if you attended a writing conference or enjoyed another writing-related success, please send that information to Mark at mf@jhu.edu. Also contact Mark if you are interested in writing an article for The Part Times. And if you haven't received an issue in the past year, you likely need to send us your current mailing address. (See below.)
To help us stay in touch with you -- and to help set up a way for you to contact others -- the program needs updated contact information for all of its graduates. Even if you have recently been in contact with us or the university itself, please take a moment right now to send an email confirming your current mailing address, phone numbers, place of employment (optional) and especially your email address. Send this information to the following faculty members in your concentration: Nonfiction:
David Everett deverett@jhu.edu
If you would prefer
to use regular mail, send your information to: Writing Program Mailing List Or you can fax us at 202-452-8713. Those with dual-concentration degrees should send information to both appropriate recipients; we will be compiling separate lists for each concentration. And please let us know whether you want to receive program information by mail, email, or not at all. We pledge to keep all of the contact information confidential within the program, and we will not send you information if you do not want it. Thank you. << Back to Master of Arts in Writing Program Home |
