About Us

Our students will embrace critical thinking, creative problem solving, and lifelong learning. Graduates will become engaged citizens in local and global contexts, and be attentive to the health needs for all with attention to health disparities. Premier educational programs, cutting-edge scholarship, and clinical professional preparation will emphasize health and well-being across the lifespan.

Our College embraces an innovative, collaborative, and interprofessional environment for learning, discovery, and engagement. The learning environment is shaped by core content that enhances understanding of health and well-being throughout the life span. Discovery occurs across the health-related disciplines that comprise the college and readily engages students and faculty in a collaborative manner. Our commitment to interprofessional development and community engagement unites our faculty and students while strengthening our educational programs and serving the needs of the region, state, and nation.

• Health and Wellbeing throughout the lifespan
• Interprofessional scholarship
• Interprofessional education to best prepare students
• Community engagement for the advancement of evidence-based and best health practices
• Lifelong learning
• Unique qualities associated with a diverse population

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.

1. Foster a climate of inclusiveness
2. Identify, acknowledge, and support the needs of all faculty, staff, and students.
3. 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.
4. Foster and recognize scholarship, teaching, creative pursuits, and service with attention to health disparities among communities in medically underserved areas.
5. Support dissemination of community-engaged scholarship.