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.
One University
- 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.
Individual Excellence
- 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.
Institution Building
- 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.
Individual Excellence
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;
One University
Better Together
New cross-divisional centers draw upon our strongest asset: our people. Johns Hopkins’ greatest strength is its people. Now more than ever, the administration is focused on the creation of cross-divisional centers as a means to facilitate collaboration between faculty members across the disciplines. These boundary-breaking centers are eliminating traditional research silos and strengthening the university’s ability to make new discoveries. Launched in May 2016, Space@Hopkins
Institution Building
Going Green
Committing to a more environmentally conscious university. Since 2009, Johns Hopkins has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent, showing that the university continues to march closer toward the goal to cut the level of its 2008 emissions by 51 percent by 2025. This and other key metrics were included in a comprehensive report published in spring 2016 by the university’s
Individual Excellence
Seeking Diverse Talent
A comprehensive approach to increasing faculty diversity. To achieve lasting excellence, it is crucial that the university recruits and retains a diverse community of professors and researchers. Johns Hopkins made a major $25 million commitment to boost its efforts in November 2015 with the launch of the Faculty Diversity Initiative. FDI funding is being used to conduct more expansive and inclusive searches,
Individual Excellence
A World-Class Faculty
A handbook for role models to use while guiding junior faculty. Academic divisions across Johns Hopkins are implementing new mentoring approaches and deploying more resources to support junior faculty as they navigate their paths to becoming future leaders. The university updated its Principles of Faculty Mentoring in February 2015, and the Provost’s Office worked with academic leadership and targeted faculty groups to identify strategies for improving
Institution Building
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
Institution Building
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
