Goal Four: Faculty

Individual and Collective Excellence

Retain, recruit, and inspire the very best faculty in the world by ensuring that we have competitive resources, state-of-the-art facilities, and outstanding support services that nurture research and discovery at the vanguard of each field of inquiry.

To continue the legacy of excellence that has defined our institution since its founding, and in recognition of the exceptional and foundational role our faculty play every day at the heart of our university, we will:

Ensure that the levels of compensation and professional support enjoyed by our faculty are competitive with those offered in comparable peer programs.
Continue to grow strategically—through the addition of faculty lines—those departments and programs that seek to enhance their size and corresponding impact.
Devise a new ecosystem for the funding of breakthrough research in basic biomedical and life sciences.
Construct a new generation of leading-edge facilities to meet the needs and aspirations of our faculty.

Melissa Walls, co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, receives the $250,000 President's Frontier Award to further her community-based work improving the health and well-being of native communities. — Melissa Walls, co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, receives the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to further her community-based work improving the health and well-being of native communities.

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The 41,000-square-foot renovation and expansion of the Anne M. Pinkard Building at the School of Nursing includes dynamic and future-oriented research spaces for the school’s specialty centers in aging, administration, cardiovascular care, community health, global initiatives, and mental health.

Why this goal is important

We understand that the research, education and clinical activities of our faculty stand as the touchstone of a great research university. The commitment to this idea has long been one of the defining features of our university. It is rooted in the efforts of our inaugural president, Daniel Coit Gilman, to recruit a cadre of stellar faculty to Johns Hopkins so that they could “pursue independent and original investigation.” Since then, ours has been a place where faculty are encouraged to do their most important work, secure in the knowledge that the university and its key constituencies are aligned in earnest support of their endeavors.

Goal Progress

Artist's rendering of a new building for the Bloomberg School of Public Health

Image caption: Artist rendering of a design concept for the new Bloomberg School of Public Health building.

Credit: Courtesy Hopkins Architects

Construction

New building planned for BSPH

Published Aug 24, 2023

250,000-square-foot East Baltimore facility expected to be completed by the end of 2026

Download The Ten for One Strategic Framework

Time and again, we have demonstrated that when we strive and dream together, we can expand the horizons of knowledge and impact the world in extraordinary and indelible ways. Now is our chance to do so again. This strategic framework sets out ten new goals for Johns Hopkins University through 2030 under four organizing pillars: One University, Individual and Collective Excellence, Knowledge and Impact, and Community Partnership and Economic Opportunity for Baltimore and the other communities of which we are a part. We look forward with great anticipation to all that lies ahead and all that we will achieve together—as One University.