Katherine Newman is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at John Hopkins University. In a radical move, her strategic plan is to hire younger rather than older faculty and cut graduate programs by 20-25% across the board in order to raise graduate student stipends. There is a nice article about her at:

http://krieger2.jhu.edu/magazine/f10/f2.html

and nice articles about her strategic plan at

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2013/12/05/261-graduate-students-resist-universitys-plan-78677/

and

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2013/12/johns_hopkins_plans_to_lower_ph_d_enrollment_and_raise_grad_student_stipends.html