Engagement Goals

Establish innovative scholarly engagement models that define and respond to the health of the public:

Search for answers to the most pressing social, civic, economic and moral problems facing our profession and world today (Boyer, 1990).

Facilitate an organizational culture of diversity that promotes collaborative partnerships, relationships, and affiliations within a global community.

Promote faculty practice, which reflects faculty expertise and needs of our communities of interest

Promote faculty development and systematic understanding through a variety of mechanisms

Contribute to systematic and structural improvement of the University systems

Promote service to the underserved and vulnerable populations in our region

Teaching Goals


We prepare professional nurses by creating an innovative environment for inquiry, discovery, and learning with diverse populations:

Ensure a flexible learner-centered environment that utilizes information technology to its highest potential to ensure collaboration and inclusiveness

Foster the advancement of students through graduate education

Ensure a comprehensive, cohesive curriculum which prepares students for leadership in a changing and diverse sociopolitical world

Scholarship Goals

Enhance the art and science of nursing by creating, translating, and disseminating knowledge:

Facilitate the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching

Foster a creative environment that supports scholarship activities

Enhance mechanisms for interdisciplinary scholarship