General Description

The expected base pay salary range for this position is $140,009 - $214,580.

The referenced salary range reflects base pay, which is based on faculty rank and years in rank. This salary range does not include all components of the School of Education's faculty compensation program or pay from participation in the School of Education's incentive compensation programs. Therefore, the actual compensation paid to the selected candidate may vary from the salary range stated herein. For more information, please contact the hiring department.

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. The School of Education seeks a broadly engaged education-policy scholar and educator who will be at home in academia, in policy circles and school communities, with students and alumni, and in the public sphere. 

Working collaboratively across the School, the Grigg Professor will contribute vision, energy, and consensus-building abilities to the ongoing development of a young graduate school of education and policy program 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 distinction in the field through their own work and through collaborations with other established and emerging education-policy programs and initiatives.  

The Grigg Professor will engage broadly across the School through their research, their contribution to current and new programs, their teaching, and their support of connections between the Education Policy program and the work of the School's many thriving research-focused centers. 

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 remains therefore 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. Despite being less than 20 years old, the School's research capacity has grown rapidly. In the last two fiscal years, the School has averaged $29M in research awards, with nearly half of this coming from federal sources.  

Today the School enrolls around 1,200 graduate students and has conferred over 900 degrees, including over 80 doctorates, in 2024.  It has 70 full-time faculty and approximately 24,000 alumni.  

The School's new strategic plan - Think Fearlessly, Act Courageously - will guide its efforts to "advance evidence-based change in our schools and communities," and its investments in programs, faculty hiring and development, and community impact and application. The plan will both enhance SOE's strengths in education, research, and community-based partnerships, and further position it to take advantage of the University's new School of Government & Policy and its new Data Science and AI Institute.  

The new plan establishes the School's vision - "To serve as the nation's most credible source of knowledge on the most important challenges facing education" - and a new framing for its mission: the School "produces solutions-focused research and prepares leaders who are empowered to use evidence to transform schools and organizations to become more effective and equitable."  

The School is proud to count several well-established trans-disciplinary centers among its assets. These include Institute for Education Policy, the Center for Research and Reform in Education, the Center for the Social Organization of Schools, the Center for Technology in Education, and the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. The School of Education has developed and implemented a strategic vision and a comprehensive approach to advancing its commitment to being a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just community, building on the University's 2021 Second Roadmap on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  

In the Fall of 2025, the School will move back into its building at the University's Homewood campus, reoccupying it after a renovation funded by philanthropy. As it pursues this new expression of vision and mission, the School anticipates realigning its structure and organizing principles to clarify the functions and activities of departments, centers, institutes, and programs. Also, in a significant development, for the first time the School will be able to appoint faculty with tenure through the same tenure-review process as the University's other academic divisions. The first wave of tenure cases will occur in the current (2024-2025) academic year. 

The role 

Education Policy - the School of Education 

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, 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 was established at Hopkins in 1966 and became part of the School in 2006. CSOS pursues 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 of education policy.

Education Policy - the University

Johns Hopkins 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 that 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 Policy, announced in October 2023, which will be based in Washington, D.C., at the Hopkins 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, D.C., create exciting opportunities for collaborations in programs, events, faculty recruitment, and fundraising in the education-policy space. Other Hopkins' schools, including the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, offer additional opportunities for collaboration.

For additional information about current programs, initiatives, and activities in education policy that range from the School to the University, click here.  

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 play a role in the ongoing development of the School's master's degree in 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, D.C.; starting each summer, students complete their degrees in one or two years. The current student cohort, the program's third, numbers 28 in the nation. Preliminary discussions of offering other paths - including an in-person, full-time option at the Bloomberg Center - to the degree have begun. 

As a senior member of the faculty, the holder of the Grigg Endowed Professorship 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 Grigg Professor 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 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 School of Education faculty member whose primary focus is research. The annual distribution from the endowment underwrites research and provides salary support for the Grigg Professor.

Qualifications

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 with tenure at the University. Given the relevance and value of a Washington, D.C., presence and programming for the IE degree and the School more broadly, the Grigg Professor will be based in D.C. or Baltimore and will sustain significant in-person presence. 

The School of Education welcomes applications from scholars with diverse perspectives on education policy and the role of governments, markets, and private actors. The School is particularly interested in candidates who use rigorous research methods to inform their scholarship. In addition to teaching in the Education Policy program, candidates may also teach in other School of Education programs.  

Required qualifications

• An earned doctoral degree in Education or a related field
• A record of teaching, research, service, or professional experience commensurate with a tenured faculty appointment at the School of Education
• Demonstrated record of education and scholarship in the field of education policy, with publications in relevant and esteemed peer-reviewed journals
• A record of innovative public engagement and/or translation of research into public settings
• A commitment to and record of experience and impact relevant to the School's vision, mission, and values

The Grigg Professorship is a full-time faculty position with nine months of salary and the opportunity to cover summer salary from endowment, grants, and other sources. Depending on the appointee's credentials, a cross-appointment in another Hopkins academic division will be possible. Participation in centers or institutes within the School of Education and beyond is also welcome. 

The search committee and the dean may consider candidates from outside the academy if their credentials and record of leadership in K-12 or higher-education policy are consistent with the School's and University's appointment tenure 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 11 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, the School of Government and Policy, 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. Just a few miles away, 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, Maryland. In addition, the University has a strong international presence, including, but not limited to, centers in Nanjing, China, and Bologna, Italy.

The School of Education is committed to building a diverse educational environment, and women and under-represented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. The University promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans. Johns Hopkins University is a drug-free, smoke-free workplace.

Application Instructions

The School of Education has engaged Opus Partners (www.opuspartners.net) to support the recruitment of the Grigg Endowed Professor. Craig Smith, Senior Partner, and Jeffrey Stafford, Senior Associate, are leading the search. Candidates should send their CV and an introductory letter of interest addressing their qualifications and speaking to their understanding of and interest in the mission of the School of Education to Jeffrey.stafford@opuspartners.net. Nominations, recommendations, and inquiries should go to the same address. Every effort will be made to ensure candidate confidentiality.

Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2025. Applications received by January 31, 2025 will receive full consideration.

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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