List of 4 news stories.

• Empowering Student Voices: CT SDLC Returns to the Hill

  Sonali Bedi '28 Assistant News Editor
  For the third consecutive year, Hopkins hosted the Connecticut Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) on April 6. The event, founded by the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) in 2003, aims to bring students from grades 7-12 and adults from independent schools across the state together for a day of dialogue, networking, and community building, according to the CAIS website.

• Hopkins Aims to Improve During Reaccreditation

  Rose Porosoff '27 News Editor and Anvi Pathak '26 News Editor
  This year, Hopkins is undergoing reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), a process that helps ensure the school meets high standards across academics, resources, safety, and student experience. According to Head of School Matt Glendinning, the reaccreditation study “examines key factors in a school’s success such as resources, admissions, the academic program, the student experience, health, and safety.” Though reaccreditation is required for NEASC recognition, the process also offers opportunities for reflection and growth. The NEASC process essentially forces a school to undertake this kind of work,” said Glendinning, “and that is fundamentally beneficial for the school, its students and families.”

• Patricia Lockwood Inspires and Offers Advice to Student Writers at Assembly

  Sarah Solazzo '26 News Lead Editor and Lena Wang '27 News Assistant EditorSarah Solazzo '26 News Lead Editor and Lena Wang '27 News Assistant Editor
  Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Patricia Lockwood visited Hopkins on March 31 to share her work and speak with students about her writing. During assembly, she read excerpts from her debut novel No One Is Talking About This (2021), poems from her poetry collection Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014), and answered questions about her own experience with writing. Selected by the Hopkins English Department out of a 21st Century American Literature class booklist, Lockwood and her visit serve to introduce students to a professional perspective on literature.

• A Cathedral Without People: Saying Goodbye to the Hill

  Asher Joseph ’25 Editor-in-Chief
  As I savor the last few months of my time at Hopkins, I return to Joan Didion's seminal essay collection “The White Album,” which I first read over Thanksgiving break. The Hopkins Drama Association had just closed Shakespeare's "The Tempest," our last production in the Woodbridge Club, before we transitioned into the new Academic and Performing Arts Center.