This series documents the period from 1982-1984 leading to the founding of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. In 1982, Johns Hopkins University appointed Carol Gray professor and director of the Division of Nursing in its Evening College. Gray directed the Johns Hopkins University feasibility study on the establishment of a school of nursing with an upper division baccalaureate program. The feasibility study led to the charter of the Consortium for Nursing Education, Inc., which was funded by the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Church Hospital, and Sinai Hospital, all of which had previously closed their nursing diploma programs. In 1983 the Consortium of Hospitals and Johns Hopkins University announced the appointment of Carol Gray as the Dean of the new Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing opened with Carol J. Gray as its first Dean in September 1984.