Johns Hopkins University - Montgomery County Campus

Seen and Heard Around Campus...

JHU Carey Business School Dean Yash Gupta and Adventist Healthcare CEO William Robertson

• A Meeting of the Minds: More than
15 local executives convened on campus for
a lunch hosted by Yash Gupta, Dean, JHU
Carey Business School, and William
Robertson, CEO, Adventist HealthCare.

Lunch discussion centered around the idea of
collaboratively creating a new Best Practices
MBA program for the Carey Business School.

For more information about the Best Practices MBA, contact Rick Milter.

• TE(a)SE me, please: Dr. Laurie U. deBettencourt, MCC-based Professor and Chair of the Department of Special Education in the JHU School of Education, has been selected as co-editor of Teacher Education and Special Education (TESE), the journal of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). TESE publishes scholarly research and policy analyses that pertain to teacher preparation for special education.

Dr. deBettencourt’s co-editor will be Dr. Michael S. Rosenberg, Professor, Department of Special Education, and Chair of Doctoral Studies, in the JHU School of Education. The three year appointment will begin January 1, 2010.

• Making Our Voices Heard: More than 40 local biotech executives, business leaders, and neighbors converged at the Montgomery County Planning Board Public Hearing in March to speak out on behalf of the Gaithersburg West Master Plan, which includes the JHU Montgomery County Campus and the planned Belward Research Campus.

“With the 270 Master Plans before you, we have an opportunity to move Montgomery County a giant step forward. We are at a crossroads. We can choose to embrace the bold visionary plans that enable us to move forward and to become a vibrant global center for creative jobs, technology, research, smart growth, and mass transit. Or we can choose the rear view mirror approach that leads to stagnation and decline with memories of what might have been.” – Gene Counihan, Resident, Montgomery Village, and co-chair, Vision 2030

Other advocates for the plan included Diane Schwartz Jones from the Office of Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett; Dr. Richard Zakour, Executive Director, MdBio Division, Tech Council of Maryland; Sally Sternbach, Executive Director, Rockville Economic Development Inc; and Marilyn Balcombe, Executive Director, Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce.