{"id":1154,"date":"2026-02-03T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/?page_id=1154"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:53:11","slug":"academic-units","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/academic-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences comprise more than 50 academic departments, programs, centers, and institutes, defined as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/academic-units\/departments\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2\">Department<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the basic academic administrative unit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/academic-units\/centers-programs-and-institutes\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"32\">Program<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0refers to an interdisciplinary and non-departmental academic unit that offers its own courses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/academic-units\/centers-programs-and-institutes\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"162\">Centers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0prioritize research and scholarship but do not usually offer courses or degrees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/academic-units\/centers-programs-and-institutes\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"32\">Institute<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0designates a unit with a clearly articulated research and academic project, often with public-facing activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences comprise more than 50 academic departments, programs, centers, and institutes, defined as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/faculty-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}