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Grigg Endowed Professorship in Education Policy & Director, Education Policy Program

The School of Education at Johns Hopkins University (https://education.jhu.edu) invites nominations and applications for the position of Grigg Endowed Professor in Education Policy and Director of the Education Policy Program. The School of Education seeks a passionate, inspiring, and enterprising scholar and educator who will be at home in academia, in policy circles, in school communities, and with alumni and who will contribute vision, energy, and consensus-building abilities to the ongoing development of a young graduate school of education at one of the world's great research universities. The Grigg Professor will provide intellectual leadership in the education policy space at the K-12 and/or post-secondary level and will contribute to the ongoing development of Hopkins' distinction in the field through their own work and through collaborations with other established and emerging education-policy programs and initiatives.

The School of Education

The School of Education (SOE) at Johns Hopkins University has prepared teachers and other education leaders for over 100 years. It took its current form in 2007 and is therefore both the newest school at Hopkins and one of the newer graduate schools of education among the top tier of research universities. SOE's mission is to generate knowledge that informs policy and practice and educates society to address the most important challenges faced by individuals, schools, and communities.

Today the School enrolls some 1,300 graduate students and conferred 921 degrees, including 86 doctorates in 2023. It has 72 full-time faculty and approximately 24,000 alumni.

The School is proud to count several well-established trans-disciplinary centers among its assets. These include Institute for Education Policy (https://edpolicy.education.jhu.edu/) , the Center for Research and Reform in Education (https://education.jhu.edu/crre/) , the Center for the Social Organization of Schools (https://education.jhu.edu/csos/) , the Center for Technology in Education (https://education.jhu.edu/cte/) , and the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools (https://education.jhu.edu/cshs/) . The School of Education has developed and implemented a strategic vision (https://education.jhu.edu/about/our-vision/) and a comprehensive approach to advancing its commitment to being a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just community, building on the University's 2016 Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion (https://diversity.jhu.edu/roadmap-on-diversity-and-inclusion/) .

The role

Education Policy - the School and the University

The Grigg Professor will join the School of Education and the broader University at an exciting time. The School sustains two well-regarded and well-funded research centers focused on the field of education policy:

• The Institute for Education Policy (https://edpolicy.education.jhu.edu/) , whose mission is to integrate research, policy, and practice to achieve educational excellence for all of America's K-12 students. IEP seeks to break down the silos that separate those on the front lines of schooling from those who research and guide policies. We believe building partnerships across these different constituencies is necessary to advance excellence and equity for all of America's children. We operate from the understanding that education policy must be informed both by real-world conditions and excellent research; that it is possible to translate the technical vocabularies of research into a language that is accessible and useful to policy experts, principals, teachers, and parents; and that in our richly diverse nation, education must be driven and sustained by evidence about what works and what does not.

• The Center for the Social Organization of Schools (https://education.jhu.edu/csos/) , which was established at Hopkins in 1966 and became part of the School in 2006. CSOS programmatic research findings from an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, psychologists, policy analysts, and educators, with the development of practitioner-validated strategies, materials, tools, and curricula, plus a wide range of dissemination and training strategies, to support school improvement and student outcomes across the nation. The Grigg Professor, among other possible engagements with the Center, can contribute to planning for its 60th anniversary.

The Grigg Professor has the opportunity to contribute to the energy, engagement, and output of these initiatives and of course to launch new inquiries and initiatives that expand the School's and the University's engagement in the field.

At the Homewood Campus, the Hopkins Bloomberg Center (https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/) in DC, and elsewhere, the University is making new investments in the academic and professional space of public policy, creating an opportune moment for the Grigg Professor to add leadership, vision, and energy to this work. The Grigg Professor will play a lead role in identifying opportunities for synergy and leverage to increase the energy and impact of all the Hopkins is doing in disparate areas of interest and activity and therefore in maximizing the University's impact in education policy writ large.

In so doing, the Grigg Professor will identify opportunities to collaborate with the University's new School for Government and Public Policy (https://president.jhu.edu/messages/2023/10/06/announcing-new-school-of-government-and-policy/) , announced in early October, which will be based in DC at the Bloomberg Center. Once open, this school will be Hopkins' first new academic division since the School of Education in 2007. The University's investment in policy and its expanding presence in Washington, DC create exciting opportunities for collaborations in programs, events, faculty recruitment, and fundraising in the education-policy space.

For additional information about the School's current programs, initiatives, and activities in education-policy, click here (https://education.jhu.edu/faculty-research/research-areas/educational-policy-politics/) .

Education Policy Program

In addition to the role as a thought-leader and representative of the School in the University's expanding policy footprint, the Grigg Professor will lead the ongoing development of the School's master's degree in Education Policy (https://education.jhu.edu/academics/education-policy/) , which prepares education leaders of the 21st century with wide-ranging skills necessary to shape effective, evidence-based education policies. Through this program, students gain knowledge and skills touching on state and federal policy, effective interventions, diversity, research, and school finance that complement learning traditional understandings of today's educational inequities and various international models to correct them. To date, the program has been provided in an online model with a one-week residency in Washington, DC; starting each summer, students complete their degrees in one or two years. The current student cohort, the program's third, numbers 28. Market analysis suggests that its current, one- or two-year, largely online model could attract 50-60 students per cohort. Preliminary discussions of offering other paths - including an in-person, full-time option at the Bloomberg Center - to the degree have begun.

As the primary representative and advocate for the Education Policy program, the Director works with faculty, students, and administration to envision and lead the development of new capacity and growth in the program while maintaining exceptional academic quality. The Director draws on operational support from an Academic Program Coordinator.

The new Director will assess new directions for the Education Policy program, considering growth and innovation while maintaining the program's high standards. Importantly, the Director will be able to take advantage of the University's expanded investment in Washington at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center. The Center's best-in-class facilities and its proximity to the organizations that design and implement federal policy in education create new opportunities for the Program and for education-policy research and education at the School more broadly.

The Education Policy Program Director is responsible for:

• Providing vision and direction to the program, including curriculum planning, and development

• Ensuring that curriculum has been approved by regulatory bodies

• Working with the department chair and vice dean on a hiring plan to meet program needs

• Assigning and supporting program advisors

• Oversight of teaching assignments of program faculty (full time and adjunct) and TAs

• Working with the School's leadership to facilitate recruitment, admissions, and enrollment, including financial aid

• Facilitating program assessment processes

As a senior member of the faculty and holder of the Grigg Endowed Professorship, the Director will be an active member of the School of Education faculty, advancing research into education policy and practice. Working within the academy and in the public space of policy and practice, the Director will raise Hopkins' profile as a hub of impactful new work in theory and practice whether through individual efforts, through collaborations with faculty at Hopkins and elsewhere, or through the training of graduate students.

The Grigg Professorship

The Grigg Professorship, the School's first fully endowed position, is named in honor of the late Jeffrey Alexander Grigg, an assistant professor and noted education researcher beloved in the SOE community. The Grigg Professorship was endowed by Jeffrey Grigg's father, Douglas Grigg, and an anonymous donor with the express purpose of recruiting, retaining, and/or recognizing a promising School of Education faculty member whose primary focus is research and who is still relatively early in his or her professional career. The annual distribution from the endowment underwrites research and provides salary support for the Grigg Professor.

Candidates for the Grigg Professorship will bring vision, a demonstrated record of enterprise and innovation, a track record of engaging school stakeholders, and the ability to move nimbly and seamlessly between academic, policy, public, and community spaces. The successful candidate will have credentials that merit appointment as an associate or full professor. Given the relevance and value of a Washington, DC presence and programming for the IE degree and the School more broadly, the Grigg Professor will ideally be based in DC or Baltimore and will sustain significant in-person presence.

Required qualifications

• An earned doctoral degree in Education or a related field or professional experience deemed equivalent

• A record of teaching, research, service, or professional experience commensurate with a faculty appointment at the School of Education, whether research, clinical, or tenure-line

• Demonstrated record of education and scholarship in the field of education policy, with publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals and

• A commitment to and record of measurable impact on diversity, equity, and inclusion

The Grigg Professorship is a full-time faculty position with 9 months of salary and the opportunity to cover summer salary from endowment, grants, and other sources. It is anticipated that the faculty appointment will occur in the Department of Counseling & Educational Studies. Depending on the appointee's credentials, a cross-appointment in another Hopkins academic division will be possible. Participation in one or more center or institute within the School of Education and beyond is also welcome.

The search committee and the dean will consider candidates from outside the academy if their credentials and record of leadership in K-12 or higher-education policy are consistent with the University's appointment standards.

The Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins is one of the world's premier research universities: with annual research expenditures of over $2.6 billion, it attracts more federal sponsored funding than any other American University.

The University has grown to encompass 10 divisions: the Schools of Education, Medicine, and Nursing, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Carey Business School, the Peabody Institute, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as multiple centers, institutes, and affiliates. Currently, Hopkins has approximately 5,600 enrolled undergraduate students, and more than 20,000 full-time and part-time graduate students. The University offers approximately 230 degree programs at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels.

The Homewood campus, site of the schools of Education, Arts & Sciences, and Engineering, is located in north Baltimore. The East Baltimore campus is home to the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, as well as The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Additional University locations include sites in downtown Baltimore, Montgomery County, M.D., and Washington, D.C., as well as the 400-acre Applied Physics Lab campus in Howard County, M.D. In addition, the University has a strong international presence, including, but not limited to, centers in Nanjing, China and Bologna, Italy.

Job Type: Full Time Johns Hopkins University is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Consistent with the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will assess the comprehensive qualifications of each applicant.