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About Us

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. 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.

The Walden University Center for Social Change is a connective hub that promotes, facilitates, and supports research, collaborative efforts and projects that lead to purposeful action for sustainable social change.

The Walden University Center for Social Change endeavors to become the premiere academic research-based social change information literacy hub for emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Our Guiding
Values

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.

RESEARCH

Systematically seek out social change information, while celebrating the process of discovery.

UNDERSTAND

Apply social change information for the greater good.

INCLUDE

Foster a sense of belonging through a variety of collaborative, research-based social change projects.

TEACH

Empower changemakers. Share knowledge for the greater good. Foster social change Information Literacy, a Walden University Institutional Learning Outcome (ILO).

INSPIRE

Lead by encouragement and example.

ENGAGE

Incorporate meaningful participation opportunities to involve emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners in positive social change research projects.

LISTEN

Attentively consider multiple perspectives.

CONNECT

Bridge the digital divide. Build community. Elevate positive social change projects and changemakers throughout the Walden University community.

ADVOCATE

Champion positive social change research projects.

CREATE

Leverage social change research, to develop new opportunities to advance positive social change.