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  • 2 Bloomberg Distinguished Professors

  • 1 1st in the percentage of under-represented groups faculty

  • 2 2nd in the percentage of women faculty

Faculty Senate

The Faculty Senate is an effective faculty organization that enters into shared responsibility, as well as an advisory and consultative partnership, among the faculty, administration, staff, and students in order to promote the general welfare of the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

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Faculty Executive Committee

Academic Year 2022-2023

  • Marcia Davis, PhD

    Associate Professor (Research)
    Co-Director, Center for Social Organization of Schools
    Director of Research, Baltimore Education Research Consortium

    Affiliation

    Center for Social Organization of Schools, SOE Leadership

    Expertise

    Learning & Instruction, Research, Evaluation & Assessment

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  • E. Juliana Pare-Blagoev, EdD

    Associate Professor

    Affiliation

    Counseling & Educational Studies

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  • Sean Newhart, PhD, LCPC

    Assistant Professor

    Affiliation

    Counseling & Educational Studies

    Expertise

    Counseling & Human Development

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  • Odis Johnson, Jr., PhD

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
    Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools
    Director, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies

    Affiliation

    Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, SOE Leadership

    Expertise

    Education Policy & Politics, Measurement & Research Methodologies, Social Context of Education

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  • Jennifer Morrison, PhD

    Associate Research Professor
    Deputy Director of Evaluation Research, Center for Research and Reform in Education

    Affiliation

    Center for Research and Reform in Education

    Expertise

    Curriculum Studies, Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Research, Evaluation & Assessment

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  • Sterling P. Travis, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Affiliation

    Counseling & Educational Studies

    Expertise

    Counseling & Human Development

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Activities & Membership

The Faculty Senate has as its basic purposes advocating for faculty viewpoints on issues in which faculty perceive themselves as stakeholders; promoting communication between faculty, administration, and campus organizations; providing recommendations on policies and governance issues concerning faculty; and soliciting faculty perceptions, suggestions, and recommendations.

Voting Members

  • Full-time promotion track (clinical/research) faculty.
  • Full-time Research Scientists whose rank corresponds to Assistant Professor or higher.
  • Part-time promotion track (clinical/research) faculty or eligible Research Scientists for whom SOE pays between 51% and 75% of the salary.
  • Joint appointment, full-time Johns Hopkins University promotion track faculty for whom SOE is responsible for at least 50% of the salary.
  • Faculty as described above who do not also hold administrative positions of Associate Dean, Vice Dean, or Dean.

Non-voting Members

  • Full-time non-promotion track faculty with the rank of Instructor or Lecturer.
  • Visiting, Adjunct, or Emeritus Faculty.
  • Joint-appointment, full-time Johns Hopkins University promotion track faculty for whom SOE is not responsible for paying more than 49% of the salary.
  • Johns Hopkins University faculty who hold an unpaid joint appointment.
  • Non-Johns Hopkins University-affiliated faculty who hold an unpaid courtesy appointment.
  • The Dean and Vice Dean