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Stay Close to Home: Hopkins Tells Its 20 Paris Students to Hold Position

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Following the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, Johns Hopkins University confirmed that roughly 20 students in the city were safe and advised them to stay at or close to home over the weekend. The university chose not to require students to return, instead instructing them to follow guidance from their programs and French authorities.

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Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
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Johns Hopkins is working to confirm the safety of all students in Paris. If you are a Johns Hopkins student in Paris, please check in with your program coordinator as soon as possible. We advise that you stay at or close to home this weekend, avoid crowded areas and public gatherings, and follow the guidance of your program and the French authorities.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed from the Hub's summary that students were advised to stay at or close to home over the weekend and to follow program and French authority guidance; the verbatim email was not published, so isVerbatimConfirmed is false.
Hopkins explicitly did not require students to return from Paris, a notable contrast with the mandatory recalls seen during the 2020 COVID study-abroad evacuations.
FOLLOW-UPWebsite
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All Johns Hopkins students studying in Paris have been confirmed safe. The group includes undergraduates in authorized study abroad programs and graduate students affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The university is not requiring students to return from Paris at this time.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

The Hub reported about 20 students total, including 14 undergraduates in authorized study-abroad programs plus SAIS and Krieger graduate students; those affiliations are the verified detail preserved here.
The follow-up confirms the cohort's safety and the university's decision not to mandate return, the substantive update over the initial check-in.
Context

Background

The November 13, 2015 Paris attacks killed 130 people in coordinated shootings and bombings across the French capital. According to the Johns Hopkins Hub, the university's official news outlet, about 20 Hopkins students were in Paris, including 14 undergraduates in authorized study-abroad programs and graduate students affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. University officials confirmed all were safe, advised them to stay at or close to home over the weekend, and chose not to require their return, instead asking them to adhere to program and French-authority guidance. Like the parallel George Washington University response, the Hopkins case illustrates the study-abroad safety-communication genre: a US institution issuing shelter and check-in guidance to a defined overseas cohort during a foreign emergency.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
    Johns Hopkins confirms safety of students in Paris following attacks - Hub
    hub.jhu.edu
  2. Student Paper
    All GW Paris study abroad students safe after deadly attacks - GW Hatchet
    gwhatchet.com
  3. Source
    November 2015 Paris attacks - Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org
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