Dean, School of Nursing

Johns Hopkins University Dean, School of Nursing

The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), one of the world’s premier universities and health sciences institutions, invites applications and nominations for the Dean of its School of Nursing. The next Dean will be an accomplished, energetic individual, with an excellent record of decisive and innovative leadership, who will advance the School’s commitment to combining research and scholarship with high quality clinical education. Perennially ranked as one of the top graduate nursing programs in the world, the School of Nursing is a global leader in nursing and healthcare and continues to redefine nursing education through a remarkable combination of academic rigor, extraordinary nursing research and scholarship, and unparalleled opportunities for nursing graduates.

The University seeks a dean who will create and foster a community that leverages the School’s exceptional faculty, staff, and students to create an ambitious vision to lead the nursing profession into the future. The Dean will be expected to find new ways to sustain the growth of the School and to deftly expand and steward resources. The Dean will be deeply committed to mentorship and nurturing a diverse and inclusive internal community that encourages all members of the School to reach their individual and collective potential. The ideal candidate for Dean will be a nursing leader of national and international prominence with the ability and stature to address the challenges facing nursing education, research, and practice, and an eagerness to provide a vision for achieving the School of Nursing’s ambitious goals.

The Dean is a senior leader for the University and Health System. The Dean is responsible to President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar for all aspects of the School’s academic programs, research activities, fundraising, finances, outreach, and other operations. The Dean of the School of Nursing also sits on the Board of the Johns Hopkins Health System.

To fulfill accreditation requirements, nominees and applicants should be eligible for RN licensure in the state of Maryland, hold a graduate degree in nursing, and hold a doctoral degree in nursing or a related field. Candidates must also demonstrate scholarly distinction appropriate for an appointment as a full professor in the School. Significant experience in nursing education, research, and practice is expected. The search committee will review candidates immediately and continue until a new appointment is made. Diversity is highly valued, and members of groups underrepresented in nursing are strongly encouraged to apply.

Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, has been engaged to assist with this important search. Inquiries, nominations, and applications should all be directed in confidence to the firm as indicated at the end of this document.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and its training school for nurses both opened in 1889. In the ensuing decades, the School’s founders established what would become the national model for nursing education. After producing generations of exceptional nurses, the School of Nursing was established in 1983 as the eighth

Johns Hopkins University Dean, School of Nursing degree-granting division of the Johns Hopkins University and opened its doors to students in 1984. In 1998, the School moved to the Anne M. Pinkard Building, a new state-of-the-art education and research building on the East Baltimore campus.

In 2015, the School of Nursing positioned itself as a thought leader in solidifying a strategy and focus solely on graduate education. This involved moving its pre-licensure baccalaureate program to the Master of Science in Nursing, and, by Fall 2017, all of its advanced practice programs were at the doctoral level. This transition required the configuration of new spaces and programming as well as the recruitment of additional faculty. With this in mind, in Winter 2020, the School completed a $45 million renovation and expansion of its Pinkard Building, creating a modern design for collaborative research and graduate level learning space.

The School of Nursing community includes 95 faculty, 128 staff, and 1406 students.

The School of Nursing is currently ranked No. 1 among nursing graduate programs, No. 2 for online master’s nursing programs, and No. 3 for doctor of nursing practice programs by U.S. News & World Report. It is ranked as the No. 3 nursing school in the world by QS World University rankings. The School was awarded a NLN Center of Excellence in 2019. It has also been recognized for its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion with the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for three consecutive years, and Best Schools for Men in Nursing by the American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN) for two consecutive years.

For more information about the School of Nursing, see https://nursing.jhu.edu/.

Mission

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing improves the health of individuals and diverse communities locally and globally through leadership and excellence in nursing education, research, practice, and service.

Faculty and graduates of the School are leaders who set the highest standards for patient care and are committed to healthcare for all individuals and populations. They are sensitive to changing societal needs and provide a positive and innovative force in the evolution of the nursing profession and the changing healthcare system. The academic rigor of its programs, the extraordinary scholarship of its faculty, and the capable professional staff and its reputation for shaping graduates who are leaders in their profession all define the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing as one of the top nursing schools in the United States.

Research

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty are internationally recognized for their expertise. Key areas of research include cardiovascular health; disease prevention and risk reduction; women’s health; care at end of life; community-based health promotion; and healthcare for diverse populations.

The School‘s Office of Science and Innovation (OSI) encourages leadership for nursing research within the School, University, community, and profession, and facilitates excellence in nursing research. OSI also supports and facilitates the development and implementation of research projects or programs and other

Johns Hopkins University Dean, School of Nursing sponsored projects, with particular emphasis on research excellence and obtaining external funding. Additionally, OSI facilitates the research and external funding activities of doctoral students and post- doctoral fellows.

The School of Nursing is currently ranked No.1 among schools of nursing for total funding received from the National Institutes of Health and No. 1 in total sponsored research funding in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 rankings. There has been significant investment in the School’s research infrastructure with a steady increase in grant submissions and scholarly publications. The School’s proposal “hit rate” was 42% for all applications in FY2019, with 48 proposals funded out of 115 submitted. This, too, represents a significant increase in activity compared to five years earlier, when 90 proposals were submitted.

Academic Programs

The School of Nursing offers a wide array of graduate degree options from Pre-licensure to MSN, DNP (Executive, Nurse Anesthesiology, Nurse Practitioner, or Clinical Nurse Specialist), and PhD programs, dual degrees, online options, and post-degree opportunities.

The Office of Educational Quality and Innovation provides mentorship, recognition, career growth, and skills development in teaching and educational scholarship to faculty and staff committed to innovation and excellence in health professions education.

Alumni and Development

The Johns Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association (JHNAA) has a distinguished history, tenacious loyalty to Johns Hopkins, and a deep commitment to the School of Nursing. Its 10,000 members include graduates of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (founded in 1984) in addition to a chapter of graduates from the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing. The School of Nursing alumni are the most engaged in the University.

The School of Nursing has been involved in multiple successful fundraising campaigns over the past three decades. The most recent campaign, Rising to the Challenge (2010 – 2018), raised over $65 million and made a large impact on the School’s endowment and infrastructure. Since the close of the Rising to the Challenge campaign in 2018, the School has raised an additional $12 million. Fundraising revenue for the past decade has averaged $7.7 million per year. The School of Nursing’s next fundraising priority will be increasing scholarship fundraising for all educational programs with a focus on increasing diversity; the School is well on its way to launching a mini-campaign for that effort in 2021.

The School is supported by a highly engaged National Advisory Council, which includes 40 dedicated volunteers and donors who advise the Dean on strategic priorities.

Facilities

The School of Nursing is located in the Anne M. Pinkard Building on the University's East Baltimore campus. Situated across from the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and two blocks from the School of Medicine, it is in the heart of the East Baltimore campus. The building opened in the spring of 1998 and is the first structure at Johns Hopkins dedicated solely to nursing education and research. In Fall 2020, a $45 million renovation and addition were completed, which

Johns Hopkins University Dean, School of Nursing included a five-story, 41,000 square foot addition to the current Pinkard Building. The design for the new addition was to provide open, collaborative space for graduate learning and to break down silos among faculty, students, staff, the Johns Hopkins campus, and the East Baltimore Community.

MAJOR RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Living up to the excellent standard that defines the Johns Hopkins tradition, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is a national and global leader in nursing education and research. Major accomplishments include:

• The Transition to All Graduate School The School admitted its first cohort of pre-licensure graduate-level students in 2015 through its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Entry into Nursing program. The program has since remained a top-ranked graduate nursing program and currently holds the No. 1 spot by U.S. News & World Report. The MSN Entry into Nursing program now welcomes more than 300 new students to the program annually, with both fall and spring cohorts. • The Conversion of Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist Tracks to DNP In 2017, the School launched a new pathway to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree through an Advanced Practice program to prepare nurses at the highest level of nursing practice. The transition from MSN-level to DNP-level programs was an important step to the nursing profession to provide nurses with a bachelor of science in nursing or general master of science in nursing degree with the advanced knowledge and skills needed to tackle the most complex healthcare and system issues and to the foundation for executive roles in healthcare. • Development of New Programs New programs – including the DNP Advanced Practice/PhD dual degree, the DNP Advanced Practice Nurse Anesthesiology track, and the DNP Executive/Master of Public Health (DNP/MPH) dual degree – were created to fill the essential needs of the current healthcare environment. All programs provide nurses with advanced skills to practice at the highest level of nursing practice. The dual degree programs will prepare nurses to affect healthcare change on a system-wide, community- wide, or global scale. • Growth of the PhD in Nursing Program Underscoring the School’s commitment to advancing science and preparing nurse leaders, a focused effort was made to expand the program in size and diversity. Enrollment in the PhD program has nearly doubled over the last ten years, from 26 in Fall 2011 to 48 in Fall 2020, and the program consistently yields the most students from underrepresented populations of all PhD programs in the University. • Increase in Research Grants and Publications The School’s ranking in total NIH funding has risen from No. 6 in FY2016 to No. 1 in FY2020 (per NIH’s December 2020 Report) and ranks No.1 in total sponsored research funding in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 rankings. Publications by fulltime School of Nursing faculty have increased by 49% over the last five years, from 312 in 2016 to 466 in 2020 (per Scopus, as of December 2020). • Increase in Endowed Chairs Since 2016, five new endowed chairs have been established, bringing the total number to eleven. These chairs were inducted to recognize trailblazing research and address critical areas of need including health equity and social justice, housing and social services’ impact on health, better patient self-care, and nursing leadership.

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• Establishment of Four New Bloomberg Distinguished Professors In collaboration with peer Johns Hopkins divisions, four new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors (BDP) were installed at the School, including one who holds a primary appointment at the School of Nursing. These BDPs hold joint appointments at JHU schools including public health, medicine, and business. • Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion In 2020, the School of Nursing established a Committee on Teaching and Learning as a Pathway to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to articulate the SON’s teaching and learning philosophy of inclusive excellence and the values of DEI as key priorities while modeling the profession’s commitment to health equity and social justice. The School received, for a second consecutive year, the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine and was named, for a second consecutive year, one of the Best Schools for Men in Nursing by the American Association for Men in Nursing. The School also established the Baltimore Talent Scholars Program, which provides four full-tuition scholarships annually to Baltimore City public high school graduates admitted to the JHU School of Nursing MSN program. • Increase in Scholarship Funding In the last five years, scholarship dollars have risen from $3.9 million in FY2017 to an estimated $9.6 million in FY2021. In academic year 2019-2020, the School distributed over $9 million in grants and scholarships to students. 90% of the School’s MSN Entry into Nursing students receive scholarships or grants ranging from $10,000 to full tuition, so students can focus on their education without hesitation due to the costs. • $45 Million Expansion of the School of Nursing Building In Fall 2020, the School opened a five-story, 41,000 ground square foot addition to the current School of Nursing building, which serves as an incubator for innovation and practice. The building is a research hub to attract the best minds locally and globally for research and collaboration while nurturing and harnessing the healthcare expertise and world-class education already within its walls. • Increase in Global Reach of the School of Nursing The School established the first U.S. DNP Cohort program in Saudi Arabia and expanded the International Visiting Scholars program to 45 scholars since 2017; received designation as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management and Sharing (GANM) and Secretariat of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers in Nursing and Midwifery (44 CCs in the 6 WHO regions); held a leadership role in compilation of the inaugural WHO State of the World’s Nursing report; and developed FutureLearn course “COVID-19: Effective Nursing in Times of Crisis,” with more than 13,474 attendees from 54 countries enrolled to date.

OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS

The Dean of the School of Nursing is an integral member of the leadership team on the East Baltimore campus and at the University. Over the last eight years, Dr. Patricia Davidson has led a School that is regarded both nationally and internationally for its excellence. It is expected that the next Dean will be recognized in the academic nursing community as an innovator and thought leader for nursing education. With strategic goals focused on the tripartite mission of research, teaching, and practice and the values of excellence, respect, diversity, inclusion, accountability, global leadership, and growth, the School is well positioned to take advantage of the national climate that recognizes a critical need for more and better trained nurses and innovative solutions to the nation’s healthcare challenges. Like other schools of nursing, the School now faces a challenging environment marked by a shift to online and digital learning,

Johns Hopkins University Dean, School of Nursing limited resources, an aging faculty, increasing demands on its faculty and graduates, and diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. The next Dean will be expected to lead efforts to meet these challenges.

Specifically, the next Dean will be expected to:

• Ensure that the School remains preeminent in education, research, and practice among the nation’s schools of nursing; • Recruit and retain an exceptional and diverse body of faculty, students, and staff; • Lead the School in implementing its strategic plan with a strong commitment to its core values of excellence, respect, diversity, integrity, and accountability; • Advance and advocate for the research mission of the School; • Build a transparent, accountable, and inclusive School of Nursing community that is committed to diversity and equity; • Support community engagement and academic partnerships that address health and social disparities; • Build, expand, and diversify revenue sources, including cultivating donors and leading innovative initiatives; • Maintain the most advanced technologies to support the teaching, research, and practice aspects of the School’s mission to enable graduates to lead in the application of technology to advance the access and quality of healthcare services; • Represent the School to help inform the policies and practices that would assure that the education of the next generation of nurses will reflect the intellectual gains of the best science, the needs of an evolving healthcare system, and the needs of diverse national and global populations; • Provide collaborative leadership, working well with the participatory faculty governance structure of the School; • Demonstrate financial acumen and good business sense in ways that allow the School to remain financially strong and achieve its mission; • Enhance the existing collaborative relationships with the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey School of Business, School of Engineering, and other parts of the University as well as the Johns Hopkins Hospital/Health System, and capitalize on new opportunities to collaborate across the Johns Hopkins institutions; • Advance the nursing profession locally, nationally, and internationally; • Support all faculty and staff to facilitate success in career progression and contribution to the mission and goals of the School and local community.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing seeks a Dean with broad intellectual capacity, exceptional scholarly credentials, and proven leadership and managerial ability. The capacity to lead successfully will depend on the candidate’s administrative experience, talent, vision, commitment to the missions of the

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School and the University, collaboration, outreach, and engagement. While no one person may possess them all, the successful candidate will embody many of the following qualifications and attributes:

• A graduate degree in nursing and a doctoral degree in nursing or a related field; • A distinguished record of academic and/or professional achievements sufficient to qualify for a position of full professor in the School of Nursing; • Eligibility for licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Maryland; • A distinguished record of academic achievement and scholarship in nursing or a related field; • Demonstrated commitment to academic excellence in research, education, and practice; • A broad vision of nursing that goes beyond the traditional clinical areas and encompasses social, behavioral, and policy sciences as they relate to healthcare; • Commitment to successful fundraising practice and demonstrated engagement with donors; • A collaborative orientation and demonstrated ability to maintain and build effective partnerships across professional disciplines, within nursing, and throughout broader communities locally, nationally, and globally; • Proven administrative and leadership experience, including evidence of highly effective strategic and financial management, planning, decision-making, and implementation; • A demonstrated commitment to diversity among faculty, staff, and students; • Outstanding interpersonal skills including a demonstrated commitment to collegiality and collaboration; • Demonstrated high standard of professional integrity and strong sense of professional ethics; • Outstanding oral and written communication skills; • Demonstrated ability to engage students, faculty, alumni, University administration, external funding agencies, accrediting bodies, and other stakeholders and innovative actions for achieving the mission and vision of the School; • A record of launching or maintaining high quality online academic programs. TO APPLY

Johns Hopkins has retained Isaacson, Miller to assist in this search. Please direct all inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications in strict confidence to:

Stephanie Fidel, Partner Amy Segal, Managing Associate Frannie McBrian, Senior Search Coordinator Isaacson, Miller www.imsearch.com/7811

Johns Hopkins is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. All applicants who share this goal are encouraged to apply.

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THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Johns Hopkins has approximately 6,500 faculty, 5,700 undergraduate students, and 20,500 graduate students arrayed across 230 degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. The University has approximately 150 field offices and nearly 3,000 employees around the globe. In addition, about 12% of Johns Hopkins undergraduates and 22% of graduate students are international.

Perennially ranked as the nation’s leader in annual research expenditures, the University has exceeded its own standard over the past decade because of excellent academic leadership, committed faculty and students, innovative international programs, high levels of collegiality, and exceptional interdisciplinary collaboration. In the past five years, research awards and expenditures have grown from $2.9 billion to $3.5 billion. In FY2019 the University’s revenue was $6.4 billion. The University’s endowment is approximately $6.9 billion.

The divisions of the University are the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; the Whiting School of Engineering; the Carey Business School; the Schools of Education, Medicine, and Nursing; the Bloomberg School of Public Health; the Peabody Institute; the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; the Applied Physics Laboratory; and the libraries and museums as well as multiple centers, institutes, and affiliates.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS INSTITUTIONS

At the time of their founding, the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital set the pace for American higher education and medicine. More than a century later, they remain leaders. The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been continuously ranked America’s No. 1 hospital for 21 years. With top-ranked schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, and ever deepening collaborations across the University, Johns Hopkins seeks to establish itself as the preeminent academic health sciences center in the world.

Together, the Johns Hopkins Institutions, which includes the University and the Johns Hopkins Health System, are the largest private employer in Maryland, employing 46,000 people, 40,000 of whom work in Baltimore City. The Johns Hopkins Institutions generate more than $10 billion annually in regional economic impact.

As one of the nation’s leading biomedical research institutions, Johns Hopkins University attracts top scientists, educators, and students. This rich environment provides unlimited opportunities for the School of Nursing as it continues to increase and strengthen its collaborations with other JHU divisions and the Johns Hopkins Health System through academic, research, and clinical initiatives. The already strong representation of nursing researchers in organizations across the University, and the history of interdisciplinary collaboration across Johns Hopkins, promises rich opportunities for continued growth. Ongoing and active partnerships with the School of Medicine and Health System include: the Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety; SIM 21, the 21st Century Johns Hopkins Simulation Center and Program; and the Inter-professional Education (IPE) Collaborative (planning for curriculum and a state-of- the-art IPE simulation center on the East Baltimore campus).

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LEADERSHIP

Ronald J. Daniels took office in March 2009 as the 14th President of Johns Hopkins University. Before his appointment at Johns Hopkins, he was Provost at the University of Pennsylvania, and before that, Dean and James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. President Daniels is the author or co-author of dozens of scholarly articles and the author or editor of seven books. In 2009, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He sits on the boards of the East Baltimore Development Inc., the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Goldseker Foundation, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the Governor’s International Advisory Council, and the Asia Pacific Rim Universities World Institute. Daniels received a Carnegie Corporation of New York Academic Leadership Award in 2015 and was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2016.

Sunil Kumar took office as the 15th Provost of Johns Hopkins University in September 2016. He is the chief academic officer and second-ranking member of the senior administration, responsible for promoting and coordinating the University’s teaching and research mission. He oversees the University’s nine schools as well as several interdisciplinary programs and academic centers. Provost Kumar previously served as Dean of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business as well as the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management.