Daniel Coit Gilman
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
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Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University and first Director of Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as a trail blazer in American graduate and professional education
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The Story
Daniel Coit Gilman was the first president of Johns Hopkins University and the first director of its hospital, positions from which he reinvented American higher education. Championing original research and graduate study, he built an institution modeled on the pursuit of new knowledge rather than rote instruction. His example reshaped universities across the country.
Why it matters
Gilman pioneered the American research university, a model that made the nation a world center of graduate and professional education.
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