As a member of the Walden community, how do you see yourself as an advocate of that mission?

 

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Essay Topic

Many students who enroll at Walden University are intrigued by its commitment to positive social change.

1) As a member of the Walden community, how do you see yourself as an advocate of that mission?

2) In what ways are you already making a difference in the world?

By tomorrow 9/9/17, answer in APA format, the level headings as numbered and highlighted in yellow above.

In 250 words, write an original essay in response to the prompt above. To present your strongest writing skills, please ensure your essay:

a) Concerns the essay topic specified in the assignment prompt.

b) Appears in paragraphs with an introduction, a body section, and a conclusion.

c) Maintains academic integrity by demonstrating your original work.Bottom of Form

Required Readings

http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingassessment

http://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=61&navoid=9236 This is the link to Walden’s

Mission, Vision, Goal and social change statement.

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.

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.

Goals

To provide multicontextual educational opportunities for career learners.

To provide innovative, learner-centered educational programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills, and abilities students bring into their academic programs.

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 professional excellence.

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 to promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement of human and social conditions.

This definition of positive social change provides an intellectually comprehensive and socially constructive foundation for the programs, research, professional activities, and products created by the Walden academic community.

In addition, Walden supports positive social change through the development of principled, knowledgeable, and ethical scholar-practitioners, who are and will become civic and professional role models by advancing the betterment of society.