History
The origins of the school can be traced back to 1909, when the "College Courses for Teachers" school was created at Hopkins. In 1925, the school changed its name to "College for Teachers," then adopted the name "McCoy College" in 1947 as it welcomed into its classrooms many World War II veterans studying on the GI Bill. In 1965, the school's name changed again, to "Evening College and Summer Session," until 1983, when it became known as the "School of Continuing Studies." Then, in 1999, in order to more clearly reflect its two remaining major divisions, the school was renamed "School of Professional Studies in Business and Education" (SPSBE). Throughout all of these iterations, the central objective of serving the educational needs of working professionals, allowing them to complete degrees while maintaining careers, held true. Over the years, the school evolved from a teacher’s college to one of nine major schools within the university, housing the majority of Hopkins' part-time academic programs. On January 1, 2007, SPSBE separated into two new schools — the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
This split was engendered by the late philanthropist Wm. Polk Carey's announcement on December 5, 2006 of his gift of $50 million to Johns Hopkins through his W.P. Carey Foundation, to create a freestanding business school at the university. The gift remains the largest to Hopkins in support of business education to date. The school is named in honor of Wm. Polk Carey's great-great-great-grandfather, James Carey, an 18th- and 19th-century Baltimore shipper, chairman of the Bank of Maryland, a member of Baltimore's first City Council, and a relative of university founder Johns Hopkins.
The current dean of Carey Business School is Bernard T. Ferrari.
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