Statement and Goals
Keeping in line with the College of Health’s mission to embrace an innovative, collaborative, interprofessional/interdisciplinary environment for learning, discovery, and engagement we acknowledge a responsibility to prepare professionals who recognize and reflect the importance of shared experiences of individuals of differing religious, ethnic, intellectual and socioeconomic cultures, including those of varying abilities, age, sexual orientation, and gender identification. Moreover, the College of Health is committed to inclusiveness.
We aim to accomplish these goals through instructional practices, collegial engagement, and continued reevaluation of the college atmosphere to ensure a sustained commitment towards progress.
- Foster a climate of inclusiveness
- Identify, acknowledge, and support the needs of all faculty, staff, and students.
- Expand awareness, knowledge, and competency for faculty, staff, and students in our pedagogy, research/scholarship, and community engagement, particularly as we prepare student for fulfilling professional health and social service careers and to lead meaningful lives.
- Foster and recognize scholarship, teaching, creative pursuits, and service with attention to health disparities among communities in medically underserved areas.
- Support dissemination of community-engaged scholarship.