The Consortium for Nursing Education, Inc. was funded by the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Church Hospital, and Sinai Hospital, all of which had previously closed their nursing diploma programs. It was charted as an outcome of the 1983 Johns Hopkins University feasibility study on the establishment of a school of nursing with an upper division baccalaureate program. 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, which opened in 1984. The CNE then serve in an advisory capacity to the School of Nursing.