Career Planning is OUT;
 Life Design is IN! 
What is ILLD?
Integrative Learning and Life Design (ILLD) is a university-wide division that connects academic learning with real-world experiences, mentoring, and career development for learners and alumni across all nine schools. As a department within Student Affairs at the university, ILLD connects 15 cross-functional units collaborating to ensure every member of the Hopkins community has fair access to opportunities, guidance, and support.
ILLD empowers every Hopkins student, postdoc, and alum to confidently and purposefully design meaningful futures. Through mentoring networks, hands-on experiences, and life design tools, ILLD helps learners connect their education to real-world opportunities and pathways that reflect their values and goals.
ILLD is committed to creating systems that make opportunities easy to find and open to all students and postdocs. Our work is guided by data, focused on outcomes, powered by innovation, and driven by our care for people.
ILLD’s Mission, Vision, and Values
ILLD’s Mission
ILLD helps every Hopkins student, postdoc, and alum translate learning into purposeful, connected, and impactful lives.
ILLD’s Vision
Every Hopkins learner leverages clarity, community, and opportunities to design a future true to their values and aspirations.
ILLD’s Values
- Excellence, integrity, diversity, and respect in all that we do
- Fairness, access, and opportunity for undergraduate students, master’s students, and postdoctoral scholars
- Critical thinking, reflection, and innovation in connecting academic work to meaningful careers
- Translating knowledge, research, and skills into real-world impact
- Collaboration across disciplines, communities, alumni, and employers
- Preparing current and future leaders to contribute thoughtfully and ethically to society
Imagine Center
Imagine Center is the physical manifestation of our philosophy of integrative learning and life design journeys at Johns Hopkins University. Regardless of their background or social capital and their dreams and aspirations, students can engage with one another, alums, employers, faculty, staff, and life design educators to create moments of inspiration and opportunities for meaningful experiential learning and mentoring, turning their curiosities into their most fantastic, audacious moves.
Evolution of Career Services in Higher Education 1900 – 2030
Our Team
We don’t ask people what they plan to do with their lives. Instead, we engage them in experiences that inspire and empower them to make audacious moves.
The New Leaders of Workplace Experience
Comparative research information and data collection reflect the inspiration behind the university-wide movement towards integrative learning.
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Employers
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