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Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal Goals
Are you familiar with Walden University’s vision and mission? Were they a factor in selecting this University? How do they relate to your professional and academic goals? Does it matter if there is a tight or loose relationship or one at all? This week’s Discussion asks you to think about how the Walden mission and vision and the School of Nursing (SON) mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. Is there a match? How does Walden’s mission and vision relate to your becoming a scholar-practitioner committed to social change?
To prepare:
- Review the Walden and SON mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
- Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.
- Consider how the information in the documents, identified above, fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.
- Think about how you will incorporate your commitment to social change into your professional and academic goals, particularly as it relates to the area(s) of interest represented by your program/specialization.
By 11/30/17
Post a description of one or more significant ways in which Walden’s and the School of Nursing’s perspectives (i.e., vision, mission, social change message, and outcomes) relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Include how you plan to incorporate social change into your professional and academic goals.
Support your Discussion assignment with specific resources used in its preparation using APA formatting. You are asked to provide a reference for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course
Vision
Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to th
the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good.
Mission
Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as schol
social change.
Goals
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To provide multicontextual educational opportunities for career learners.
To provide innovative, learner-centered educational programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills, and abilitie
To provide its programs through diverse process-learning approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality and integrity.
To provide an inquiry/action model of education that fosters research, discovery, and critical thinking and that results in profes
To produce graduates who are scholarly, reflective practitioners and agents of positive social change.
Social Change
Walden University defines positive social change as a deliberate process of creating and applying ideas, strategies, and actions
individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement
This definition of positive social change provides an intellectually comprehensive and socially constructive foundation for the p
products created by the Walden academic community.
In addition, Walden supports positive social change through the development of principled, knowledgeable, and ethical scholar
professional role models by advancing the betterment of society.
University Outcomes
Walden University strives to produce graduates with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to:
1. Facilitate positive social change where they work, in their communities, and in society.
2. Use their knowledge to positively impact their profession, communities, and society.
3. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning.
4. Apply their learning to specific problems and challenges in their workplace and professional settings.
5. Demonstrate information literacy.*
*Information literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, and being able to identify, locate, e
issue or problem at hand.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the methods of inquiry used in their professional or academic field.
7. Practice legal and ethical integrity in their professional work.
8. Effectively communicate their ideas and the rationale behind them to others.
9. Support diversity and multiculturalism within their profession, communities, and society.
University Values
Quality • Integrity • Student-Centeredness
Values
Three values—quality, integrity, and student-centeredness—are the core of the university and the touchstones for action at all l
standards of excellence, uncompromising openness and honesty, and primary attention to the progress of our students. These va
unique identity and underpin the Walden University mission.
Quality
•
•
Walden University believes that quality and integrity are the cornerstones of all academic processes.
Walden University believes in innovation and flexibility in the conception and delivery of its educational programs, and that th
quality and integrity.
Integrity
•
Walden University believes that education and social change are fundamental to the provision and maintenance of democratic i
good.
Walden University believes that its learners effect positive social change when they behave as reflective or scholarly practition
Walden University believes that the inquiry/action model fosters critical thinking and underpins research and discovery for refl
students) and scholar-practitioners (doctoral students). This model provides the framework for teaching, learning, and assessme
•
•
Student-Centeredness
•
•
Walden University believes that all adult learners should have innovative educational access, especially those who are without
Walden University believes that academic programs must be learner-centered, incorporating learners’ prior knowledge and allo
needs and interests.
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Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to th
the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good.
Mission
Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as schol
social change.
Goals
•
•
•
•
•
To provide multicontextual educational opportunities for career learners.
To provide innovative, learner-centered educational programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills, and abilitie
To provide its programs through diverse process-learning approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality and integrity.
To provide an inquiry/action model of education that fosters research, discovery, and critical thinking and that results in profes
To produce graduates who are scholarly, reflective practitioners and agents of positive social change.
Social Change
Walden University defines positive social change as a deliberate process of creating and applying ideas, strategies, and actions
individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement
This definition of positive social change provides an intellectually comprehensive and socially constructive foundation for the p
products created by the Walden academic community.
In addition, Walden supports positive social change through the development of principled, knowledgeable, and ethical scholar
professional role models by advancing the betterment of society.
University Outcomes
Walden University strives to produce graduates with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to:
1. Facilitate positive social change where they work, in their communities, and in society.
2. Use their knowledge to positively impact their profession, communities, and society.
3. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning.
4. Apply their learning to specific problems and challenges in their workplace and professional settings.
5. Demonstrate information literacy.*
*Information literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, and being able to identify, locate, e
issue or problem at hand.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the methods of inquiry used in their professional or academic field.
7. Practice legal and ethical integrity in their professional work.
8. Effectively communicate their ideas and the rationale behind them to others.
9. Support diversity and multiculturalism within their profession, communities, and society.
University Values
Quality • Integrity • Student-Centeredness
Values
Three values—quality, integrity, and student-centeredness—are the core of the university and the touchstones for action at all l
standards of excellence, uncompromising openness and honesty, and primary attention to the progress of our students. These va
unique identity and underpin the Walden University mission.
Quality
•
•
Walden University believes that quality and integrity are the cornerstones of all academic processes.
Walden University believes in innovation and flexibility in the conception and delivery of its educational programs, and that th
quality and integrity.
Integrity
•
Walden University believes that education and social change are fundamental to the provision and maintenance of democratic i
good.
Walden University believes that its learners effect positive social change when they behave as reflective or scholarly practition
Walden University believes that the inquiry/action model fosters critical thinking and underpins research and discovery for refl
students) and scholar-practitioners (doctoral students). This model provides the framework for teaching, learning, and assessme
•
•
Student-Centeredness
•
•
Walden University believes that all adult learners should have innovative educational access, especially those who are without
Walden University believes that academic programs must be learner-centered, incorporating learners’ prior knowledge and allo
needs and interests.
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