JHU SAIS Names Kathryn Mohrman New Executive Director of Hopkins-Nanjing Center Washington Program Office
Washington - 07/1/2003 - The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University has named Kathryn Jagow Mohrman, former president of Colorado College, as the new executive director of the Washington Program Office of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.
Established in 1986, the center is an educational joint venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University. It gives approximately 100 students from the U.S., China, and other countries the opportunity to live together and pursue graduate-level studies for one year. SAIS administers the center's activities on behalf of JHU.
As the Washington, D.C.-based executive director, Mohrman, who will assume the position on 07/15, will be responsible for the overall development and management of the program's operations.
"Our program in Nanjing has moved from strength to strength under able direction in Washington and Nanjing and with great support from the host universities of Johns Hopkins and Nanjing," said SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn. "Kathryn Mohrman brings impressive experience and high prestige to the position of executive director at a time of great challenge and opportunity. We are all looking forward with great expectations to her leadership."
Prior to joining the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Mohrman has spent the past year as a Fulbright Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, she has served as the director of Research and Development of the Hong Kong-America Center. She currently is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Having nearly 30 years of distinguished service in the higher education field, Mohrman was president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs from 1993 to 2002 and dean for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park from 1988 to 1993. Other previous experience includes serving as associate dean of the undergraduate college at Brown University, director of National Affairs at the Association of American Colleges and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. Author of numerous articles, she has taught public policy and higher education policy courses at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, Colorado College, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, The George Washington University and Brown University.
A native of Illinois, Mohrman received her Ph.D. in public policy from The George Washington University in 1982, M.A. in American history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1969, and B.A. in history from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1967. In 2002, she received an honorary doctor of laws from Colorado College. Other honors and professional activities include receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan and Korea in 1992 and serving on the Henry Luce Foundation's Asian Studies Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2002.
SAIS is one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. The Washington, D.C., campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue in the city's Dupont Circle neighborhood and enrolls more than 450 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals. SAIS has trained more than 10,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.