Sarah Steinberg
Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Professional Programs and Technology Integration
Advanced Academic Programs
The Johns Hopkins University
1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Phone: (202) 452-1940
E-mail: steinberg@jhu.edu
Sarah Steinberg, senior associate dean for graduate professional programs and technology integration for the School of Arts and Sciences, oversees strategic planning for the school’s rapidly growing graduate program for part-time students, Advanced Academic Programs (AAP). As of Jan. 1, 2009, her role also includes broad responsibility for all strategic decisions regarding the deployment of information technology in the school.
Founded in 1992, AAP serves the regional community in disciplines such as applied economics, bioinformatics, government, writing and liberal arts, drug discovery technologies, homeland security, communication, biotechnology, and environmental science.
Currently, with program enrollments each semester exceeding 2,300, AAP offers 14 master's degree programs (including three that are dual MS/MBA or MA/MBA degrees) as well as targeted certificate offerings. Classes are offered at the Montgomery County Campus, AAP’s administrative headquarters in the Bernstein-Offit Building in Washington, and the Homewood campus. In addition, the AAP offers a fully online degree in bioinformatics and many fully online course offerings, including in museum studies.
Steinberg’s responsibilities concerning information technology include direct supervision of the IT manager and representation of the interests of Arts and Sciences in all conversations related to information technology, both by serving as a communication bridge between the individual units of Arts and Sciences and central IT, and by collaborating and communicating with faculty and other constituencies, including Homewood partners, such as Homewood Student Affairs and the School of Engineering, and university partners, such as IT@JH.
Steinberg came to Johns Hopkins in 1993, joining the Whiting School of Engineering; in 2001 she was named executive director of Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals. She became associate dean of AAP at the School of Arts and Sciences in December 2004. During her tenure with Johns Hopkins, Steinberg has assumed several different committee leadership roles related to technology usage and integration for the support of student and faculty services. Most recently, she chaired the university Course Management System Task Force.
Before arriving at Hopkins, she was a marketing manager and senior engineer at Froehling and Robertson, an engineering firm in Sterling, Va. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Cornell University, a master's degree in finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and her PhD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.
