Janet Simon Schreck joined Johns Hopkins in 2015 as its inaugural assistant vice provost for education and currently serves as the university’s senior associate vice provost for academic affairs. In addition, she directs academic compliance, institutional and learning assessment, and accreditation, serving as accreditation liaison officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) and as the institutional academic grievance officer. She is also a faculty member in the School of Education, where she teaches and advises doctoral students in the EdD program and serves as interim chair of the Advanced Studies in Education Department.

A licensed and certified speech-language pathologist with a focus on neurogenic disorders in adults, Schreck has published multiple articles and delivered numerous national presentations on cognitive-communication changes associated with aging. She is a Fellow of the Maryland Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in the National Academy of Practice. Schreck earned her B.A. and M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from Loyola University Maryland and Ph.D. in Gerontology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.