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Here, you can Set a Course for Change™:</p> <ul style="columns: 2;"> <li>Be inspired by Walden University changemakers.</li> <li>Access a variety of Walden University social change research projects.</li> <li>Learn about the Walden University Research and Applications for Social Change Grant (RASCG).</li> <li>Tell us your social change story.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412395" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412395"><div id="s-lg-box-32670449-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32670449" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32670449" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-76625638" class=" clearfix"> <h2>Inspiring Highlights</h2> </div> <div id="s-lg-content-76625654" class="s-lg-widget "><div class="image-bg-grid-right-overlap split-grid-center" id="three-things"> <div> </div> <div class="white-bg border-shadow no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">Tapestry 2024: Walden University Research Festival</h3> <p>Here at Walden University, we continue to celebrate seasons of social change. As we celebrate the Fall season, we harvest and highlight the many and varied patterns of social change research and related manifestations and revelations by Walden scholars and emerging scholars.</p> <p><em><strong>Tapestry 2024: Walden University Research Festival</strong></em>, a university-wide event, does just that. Offering self-guided virtual exhibits; and virtual gatherings— a feature film; student presentations; faculty- and staff-led discussion groups; a <em>Real-World Solutions to Real-World Problems</em>™ (RWS2RWP™) Conference on Healthcare Equity; and more, <em>Tapestry 2024</em> systematically seeks out, provides, and fosters social change research and information literacy, while heralding the process of discovery.</p> </div> </div> <div class="split-grid-50-50"> <div class="white-bg border-shadow no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">EXPERIENCE THE VIRTUAL WALDEN UNIVERSITY SOCIAL CHANGE FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM </h3> <p>On demand encore presentation, originally streamed live March 13-14, 2024.</p> <a href="https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/experience/eliteWaldenUniversityLLC/2187236/4527613/social-change-fellows-symposium">Social Change Fellows Symposium</a> </div> <div class="white-bg border-shadow no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">TELL US YOUR SOCIAL CHANGE STORY</h3> <p>Aspire Blogzine is just one of the ways in which we are bringing meaningful stories of social change to life around Walden University. We could not do this without you.</p> <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Bxr7l-1mg0mYzStBl37cJTUXHMUVlLhLhDJfIlQ59mZUQjdETDY2WE1OT1BJRTROUzM0TVgySEE4UiQlQCN0PWcu">Aspire Guest Blogger Story Submission</a> </div> <div class="white-bg border-shadow no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">MEET THE 2024 WALDEN UNIVERSITY SOCIAL CHANGE FELLOWS</h3> <a href="https://academics.waldenu.edu/walden-university-center-for-social-change/grants-fellowships">2024 Social Change Fellows</a> </div> <div class="white-bg border-shadow no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">EXPLORE THE WALDEN UNIVERSITY MINNESOTA COLLECTION</h3> <p>The Walden University Minnesota Collection recognizes Walden University’s cultural moorings in the State of Minnesota.</p> <a href="https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/minnesota">Minnesota Collection</a> </div> </div> <style type="text/css"> div#three-things { background-image: linear-gradient(65deg, #003b4c, transparent), url(https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/customers/1460/images/Tapestry_2024_Poster_FALL.png) !important; } .image-bg-grid-right-overlap { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px 0px; background-size: 66%; background-repeat: no-repeat; } @media screen and (min-width: 1084px) { .image-bg-grid-right-overlap { min-height: 500px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1.5fr; } } @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { .image-bg-grid-right-overlap { grid-template-columns: 1fr; background-size: cover; } } </style> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412635" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412635"><div id="s-lg-box-32670686-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32670686" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32670686" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-76626430" class=" clearfix"> <div class="teal-bg bg-span"> <p class="quote">“Aspire toward the highest.”<br /> -Rita Turner, Co-Founder, Walden University</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="gold-button" href="https://academics.waldenu.edu/walden-university-center-for-social-change/resources#s-lg-box-wrapper-38427516">Walden University Social Change Directory</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-37552733" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-37552733"><div id="s-lg-box-31933736-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-31933736" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-31933736" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-74787738" class=" clearfix"> <div id="walden-w"> <div class="split-grid-50-50"> <div><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/customers/1460/images/about-us-homepage.jpeg" /></div> <div style="align-self: center"> <h2 class="thick-underline">About Us</h2> <p>The <strong>Center for Social Change</strong> is Walden University’s changemaker resource hub. We empower changemakers, build community, and elevate social change outcomes across the university. In addition to fostering professional networking opportunities among Walden Social Change Fellows and the larger Walden University community, the Center serves as a home base for two annual, university-wide events: The Social Change Fellows Symposium, and The Social Change Conference. We also host the Aspire social change blogzine, administer the Walden University Social Change Toolkit, and participate in the Walden Community Mini-Libraries book drive. As sponsors of the annual Walden University Research & Applications for Social Change Grants (RASCG), we support projects that reflect the university’s mission to foster social change and the education of emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners.</p> </div> </div> </div> <style type="text/css">#walden-w { background-image: URL(https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/31417/images/Singular_W_gradientoverlay.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right; background-size: cover; } </style> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412640" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412640"><div id="s-lg-box-32670691-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32670691" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32670691" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-76626435" class=" clearfix"> <div class="bg-span beige-bg no-margin"> <div class="split-grid-50-50 split-grid-center"> <div> <h2>Our Guiding<br /> Values</h2> <p>The Center for Social Change is Walden University’s changemaker resource hub. We empower changemakers, build community, and elevate social change outcomes across the university. Positive social change has been a major part of Walden University’s institutional identity since the university’s founding in 1970. A co-curricular network, the Walden University Center for Social Change amplifies and extends the university’s unwavering commitment to positive social change. These values inform and guide the Center’s work.</p> </div> <div><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/accounts/31417/images/Presenting_at_Conference.jpg" style="width: 80%; margin-left: 10%;" /></div> </div> </div> <div class="split-grid-33-33-33"> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">RESEARCH</h3> <p>Systematically seek out social change information, while celebrating the process of discovery.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">UNDERSTAND</h3> <p>Apply social change information for the greater good.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">INCLUDE</h3> <p>Foster a sense of belonging through a variety of collaborative, research-based social change projects.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">TEACH</h3> <p>Empower changemakers. Share knowledge for the greater good. Foster <i>social change</i> <a href="https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/vision-mission-goals">Information Literacy</a>, a Walden University Institutional Learning Outcome (ILO).</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">INSPIRE</h3> <p>Lead by encouragement and example.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">ENGAGE</h3> <p>Incorporate meaningful participation opportunities to involve emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners in positive social change research projects.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">LISTEN</h3> <p>Attentively consider multiple perspectives.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">CONNECT</h3> <p>Bridge the digital divide. Build community. Elevate positive social change projects and changemakers throughout the Walden University community.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">ADVOCATE</h3> <p>Champion positive social change research projects.</p> </div> <div class="beige-bg no-margin"> <h3 class="small-caps">CREATE</h3> <p>Leverage social change research, to develop new opportunities to advance positive social change.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412645" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412645"><div id="s-lg-box-32670696-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32670696" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32670696" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-76626448" class=" clearfix"> <div class="bg-span beige-bg "> <div class="split-grid-50-50"> <div> <h2>Social Change Grants</h2> <p>Research and Applications for Social Change Grants are awarded annually to Walden doctoral students, alumni, faculty, and staff, as well as external researchers, whose proposals reflect the university’s mission to foster social change through research and the education of scholar-practitioners.</p> </div> <div> <details class="details-transparent-gold-chevron"><summary class="standard">Faculty and Staff Application</summary> <p>The 2023-2024 Research and Applications for Social Change Grants (RASCG) application grant cycle is currently closed.</p> <p>Please note the following dates, for the 2024-2025 RASCG application grant cycle:</p> <ul> <li>Call for Proposals: <strong>December 2, 2024</strong></li> <li>Application Deadline: <strong>February 3, 2025</strong></li> </ul> </details> <details class="details-transparent-gold-chevron"><summary class="standard">Student Application</summary> <p>The 2023-2024 Research and Applications for Social Change Grants (RASCG) application grant cycle is currently closed.</p> <p>Please note the following dates, for the 2024-2025 RASCG application grant cycle:</p> <ul> <li>Call for Proposals: <strong>December 2, 2024</strong></li> <li>Application Deadline: <strong>February 3, 2025</strong></li> </ul> </details> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412648" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38412648"><div id="s-lg-box-32670699-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32670699" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32670699" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div id="s-lg-content-76626455" class=" clearfix"> <div class="dark-blue-bg bg-span"> <h2><span style="color:#ffffff;">Center for Social Change FAQs</span></h2> <div> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>When was the Walden University Center for Social Change established? </summary> <p>In 2017, Walden University established its Center for Social Change, a networking hub with three major commitments: Empowering Changemakers, Building Community, and Elevating Social Change Outcomes. Positive social change has been a major part of Walden University’s institutional identity since the university’s founding in 1970. A co-curricular network, the Walden University Center for Social Change amplifies and extends the university’s unwavering commitment to positive social change.</p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>How do the Walden University Center for Social Change Mission and Vision connect with those of Walden University? </summary> <p>The Walden University Center for Social Change Mission is that of fostering social change Information Literacy, and its Vision is to endeavor to become the premiere hub for such. Through academic research projects and related collaborative co-curricular outreach programs, the Walden University Center for Social Change (CSC) fosters, manifests, highlights, and promotes <a class="white" href="https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/vision-mission-goals">Information Literacy</a>, one of the university’s Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs). </p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>What is the Center’s operational structure? </summary> <p>The Walden University Center for Social Change (CSC) is a vertically- and horizontally-integrated network of people that calls upon the individual and collective strengths of Walden University’s immediate and extended community members to advance its mission. The CSC, which has its own <a class="white" href="https://www.waldenu.edu/why-walden/faculty/lisa-pertillar-brevard">Lead Fellow and Director</a>, reports to the office of the <a class="white" href="https://www.waldenu.edu/news-and-events/spotlight/2021/dr-savitri-dixon-saxon-a-passion-for-learning-and-counseling">Vice Provost, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Engagement, and Academic Performance</a>—which, in turn, reports to the <a class="white"href="https://www.waldenu.edu/why-walden/faculty/susan-subocz">Associate President and Provost of Walden University</a>. </p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>How do the Research and Applications for Social Change Grants work? </summary> <p>This grant opportunity aims to enable members of the Walden community to make a significant and meaningful change in academic and social communities, both locally and globally. The grant is awarded to applicants who submit outstanding proposals that reflect the university’s mission to foster social change through research and the education of scholar-practitioners as well as Walden’s determination to effect positive social change worldwide uniquely. Grant recipients automatically become <a class="white" href="https://academics.waldenu.edu/walden-university-center-for-social-change/grants-fellowships">Walden University Social Change Fellows</a>.</p> <p>Walden University Social Change Fellows are scholars, administrators, authors, artists, nurses, social workers, teachers, engineers, lawyers, historians, scientists, and community leaders, ready to share their knowledge and skills for the greater global good. They continue to learn and grow as they give. </p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>What do Walden University Social Change Fellows do? </summary> <p>In addition to fulfilling their approved research or applied project, Social Change Fellows meet virtually on a quarterly basis, under the direction of the Lead Fellow and Director of the Walden University Center for Social Change, to network professionally and share information about their varied social change projects. In addition, Fellows also are expected to present the results of their respective grant-funded projects during the annual <a class="white" href="https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/experience/eliteWaldenUniversityLLC/2187236/4527613/social-change-fellows-symposium"><i>Walden University Virtual Social Change Fellows Symposium</i></a>, held each March. </p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>How often can one apply for a Grant? </summary> <p>One may apply for the grant once per grant cycle. The next grant cycle begins December 2, 2024, and ends February 3, 2025. </p> </details> <details class="details-transparent-white-plus"><summary>How can I get involved? </summary> <p><a class="white" href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Bxr7l-1mg0mYzStBl37cJTUXHMUVlLhLhDJfIlQ59mZUQjdETDY2WE1OT1BJRTROUzM0TVgySEE4UiQlQCN0PWcu">Tell Us Your Social Change Story</a>. 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