10x 2020
A vision for Johns Hopkins by the year 2020
In May 2013, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels articulated priorities for the university through the remainder of the decade, collectively called the Ten by Twenty. Here, we provide our second report on the progress the university has made toward those goals to date. And we invite you to join the conversation—you will find opportunities to engage throughout the report.
10x 2020 Progress Report Spring 2017
A vision for Johns Hopkins by the year 2020
In May 2013, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels articulated priorities for the university through the remainder of the decade, collectively called the Ten by Twenty. Here, we provide our second report on the progress the university has made toward those goals to date. And we invite you to join the conversation—you will find opportunities to engage throughout the report.
Our
Priorities
The aspirations that inspire and guide us as we look to the second half of the decade.
- Four Priorities
- Ten Goals
- Thirty Snapshots
Ten by Twenty launched four years ago. How are we doing? There is still more work to do toward our ambitious goals, but we’ve made some good progress. Here we present 30 “Snapshots”—stories of our most recent accomplishments since our first progress report was released in March 2015.
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- 1Selectively invest in programs that support our core academic mission.
- 2Strengthen our capacity for faculty-led interdisciplinary collaboration and launch a set of innovative cross-cutting initiatives that will contribute substantially to the world of ideas and action.
- 3Enhance the impact of Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing as the world’s pre-eminent academic health sciences enterprise by deepening collaboration among these entities and with disciplines in other parts of the university and across the globe.
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- 4Build Johns Hopkins’ undergraduate experience so it stands among the top 10 in the nation.
- 5Build on our legacy as America’s first research university by ensuring that at least two-thirds of our PhD programs stand among the top 20 in their fields.
- 6Attract the very best faculty and staff in the world through a welcoming and inclusive environment that values performance and celebrates professional achievement.
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- 8Strengthen the institutional, budgetary, technological, and policy frameworks necessary to set priorities, allocate resources, and realize the highest standards of academic excellence.
- 9Reinforce our position as the leading university recipient of competitively funded federal research support, while increasing the amount of annual research investment from other sources with appropriate cost recovery.
- 10Develop the resource base necessary to support investments in key academic priorities.
Commitment to Our Communities
Home Is Where Our Heart Is
Embracing nearby neighborhoods makes us all stronger. Over the past few years, the university has made significant progress in its efforts to strengthen the neighborhoods surrounding our campuses. The Eager Park neighborhood near the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus is undergoing a major transformation, with new housing, community institutions, offices and lab space, a central park, and retail. Some highlights: More than
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Combating Sexual Assault
Clearer policies and procedures to prevent misconduct. Like many colleges and universities across the country, Johns Hopkins has been evaluating and expanding its response and resources dedicated to sexual violence. The process has included drafting new policies and streamlining the reporting process while also finding out how community members—especially students—feel about the climate and culture on our campuses. Johns Hopkins unveiled a new
Individual Excellence
Stronger PhD Programs
A new review process keeps us on the cutting edge and improves student supports. Johns Hopkins is proud to offer a robust array of doctoral programs — over 60 PhDs in nine divisions. Because we are constantly working to ensure that each program delivers a top-flight education to its students, our divisions regularly review and refine the doctoral degrees they award through departmental reviews. Under the traditional review model, best practices
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The Best and Brightest
A transformational gift anchoring interdisciplinary collaboration. In 2013, Johns Hopkins University created the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships with $250 million of a generous $350 million gift from alumnus, philanthropist, and three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s gift is part of a larger effort to facilitate interdisciplinary work across the university to galvanize people, resources, research, and educational opportunities around a
Commitment to Our Communities
An Engine of Growth
Building, buying, and hiring in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins is a critical economic engine for Baltimore, with hundreds of new employees hired each year, ongoing construction and renovation projects across the city, and annual purchases totaling millions of dollars in goods and services. Johns Hopkins has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to Baltimore with several major initiatives designed to help the city realize
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A Cancer “Moonshot”
A new institute is strengthening our world-class program in cancer immunology. Immunotherapy — redirecting patients’ highly individual immune systems to target, detect, and destroy cancer cells — is one of the most promising avenues of cancer research today. Johns Hopkins is on the cutting edge of this rapidly advancing approach to treatment and potentially a cure, thanks to the pathbreaking work being done at the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute
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Enhancing Student Services
Simplifying the mechanics of student life. Our students are drawn to Johns Hopkins for its innovative education, but once they get here, they often find the mechanics of being a Hopkins student — like registering, enrolling, and managing financial aid — a bit byzantine. To modernize the services we provide our students, the university launched the Student Services Excellence Initiative in
Commitment to Our Communities
From Kindergarten to College
Creating a thriving city, one student at a time. One of the best ways Johns Hopkins, as an educational institution, can support Baltimore is by supporting its residents’ education. Over the past two years, the university has launched, or formed partnerships on, a number of initiatives that support Baltimore students of all ages. These programs bolster classroom programming, foster student health and well-being, and
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Improving the Humanities
New faculty and a new institute to promote the humanities in Baltimore and beyond. While published reports indicate that the humanities at other colleges and universities are struggling with funding cuts and declining enrollments, Johns Hopkins is placing a greater emphasis on the importance of these disciplines by increasing its support for humanities students and faculty. The number of tenure track professors in the humanities at Hopkins has been growing
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Fostering Inclusive Excellence
Cultivating a diverse community with improved supports and open dialogue. Johns Hopkins aims to cultivate a community where every member feels a full sense of belonging, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or political viewpoint. Building that sense of inclusion takes many forms, from improving the diversity of our community to facilitating candid conversations that confront barriers to opportunity. We are pursuing
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100 Years and Counting
Michael Bloomberg’s unprecedented gift ensures many more public health milestones to come. In the words of businessman and philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, there is no institution better equipped to lead the charge for a healthier world than Johns Hopkins University. This leadership is evident in the work of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, which has been at the frontlines of many major global public health challenges, including
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Rising to the Challenge
Exceeding expectations with our latest fundraising campaign. In March 2016, Johns Hopkins announced that it was extending its successful Rising to the Challenge campaign by a year, with the goal of raising an additional $500 million to further increase student aid, bolster faculty and clinician support, and use research to address critical issues facing our communities and the world. Rising to the
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Supporting Our Staff
Providing work-life balance and talent development for a diverse organization Outstanding staff are critical to the efforts of our faculty, students, and trainees, and we cannot achieve the fully diverse and inclusive environment we aspire to unless we deeply embed those values in the selection, training, support, and advancement of our staff. We are striving to establish clear pathways to employment for diverse, talented individuals;
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Collaboration in China
Building on a 100-year-old collaboration. The Tsinghua–Johns Hopkins Public Health Management Program welcomed its first cohort of students in fall 2016, marking the beginning of the School of Public Health’s first collaborative degree program in China. The program is based in the Institute for Hospital Management at Tsinghua University, one of China’s leading research and educational institutions. Although the health
