Janet Simon Schreck is the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. In that role, Dr. Schreck is responsible for leading and facilitating academic affairs across Johns Hopkins University, including undergraduate education initiatives, regional accreditation, academic compliance, state authorization, institutional assessment and learning assessment, as well as special projects assigned by the provost. Together with the decanal co-chairs, Dr. Schreck co-led the Second Commission on Undergraduate Education (CUE2) and served as a primary author of the 2020 CUE2 report. Dr. Schreck also led the university in the selection, procurement, and implementation of its first university-wide learning assessment platform and developed the visions for the Johns Hopkins University Comprehensive Learner Record (JHU-CLR). She also served as co-chair and functional lead for the university’s 2023-4 Middle States Commission on Higher Education self-study and reaccreditation effort. Dr. Schreck is an associate professor in the School of Education where she teaches in the EdD program. She also served as interim chair for its Advanced Studies in Education department for academic year 2023-4.
A licensed and certified Speech-Language Pathologist with a focus on neurogenic disorders in adults, Dr. Schreck has published multiple articles and delivered numerous national presentations on the topics of cognitive-communication changes associated with typical aging as well as screening, assessment, and treatment of cognitive-communication disorders associated with dementia. Before joining Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Schreck served as a full-time clinical faculty member in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Loyola University Maryland where she taught a number of undergraduate, graduate, and clinical practicum courses. She also served as the Executive Director of the Loyola Clinical Centers (LCC), Loyola’s interdisciplinary training clinic where she created an administrative environment that facilitated state-of-the art training for students in four academic disciplines across two schools while simultaneously providing affordable, quality allied health and education services to more than 4,000 clients annually.
Dr. 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. Dr. Schreck is a Fellow of the Maryland Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in the National Academy of Practice.
