Walden’s Vision, Mission, and Goals

Explore the “About Us” area of the Walden home page (http://www.waldenu.edu/about), paying particular attention to Walden’s Vision and Mission, which state:

Mission

Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change.

Vision

Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to the degree that it can be applied by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good.

Reflecting on these resources, consider what Walden’s mission, vision, and outcomes mean to you and how they relate to your professional goals and development. With these thoughts in mind, Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you:

Describe your professional goals and identify how your studies at Walden will help you to achieve them.
Choose one particular goal described in the first part of your paper and elaborate on how this goal will affect your development as a scholar-practitioner at Walden.
Identify how your role as a scholar-practitioner will help you to become an agent of change and innovation, both professionally and socially