Hopkins will always be a target, because we're known to be very strong but limited in our size. The job of a dean is to make the judgment calls to retain the people whom we should retain, even if it costs us something, and to make the tough decisions, because there's a limit on what we can afford. What we hope it will accomplish is to enliven the interactions among the strong humanities departments. Enliven them intellectually by bringing in postdoc fellows. Hopkins tends to be rather heavily tenured.
Some departments have few if any untenured people.
That's one purpose. The other goal of the center is to identify interesting prospects for hires. It can do that in a number of ways. It will sponsor interdisciplinary conferences, and presumably if it discovers in the course of a conference someone who is really of interest to various people at this university, we can bring that person in as a visitor or a member of the faculty. I believe in autonomous departments.