Attract and retain high quality and diverse students, faculty and staff through innovative programs and opportunities with an emphasis on recruitment and retention of persons who are black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC).
Enhance the quality of existing academic and student affairs programming and develop new programs to address the health and human service needs of southeastern North Carolina and beyond.
Utilize technology to create and sustain virtual and physical instructional environments that enhance interprofessionalism, collaboration, and learning.
Develop the Center for Healthy Communities and the Center for Clinical Research Workforce Development as sustainable integrative platforms for community engagement involving faculty, students, and staff.
Incentivize antiracism activities, culturally diverse programs, and resources that result in professional services and creation of leadership opportunities across disciplines and professions.
Goal 5: Promote sustainability and continuous quality improvement.
Develop effective, efficient, and sustainable processes, policies and procedures to manage college and school functions through the engagement of faculty, students, and staff.
Promote and reinforce a diverse, collaborative, interprofessional and healthy culture within the College with an emphasis on health equity and disparities.
Advance understanding and respect for the schools and college from local to global communities through effective communication, marketing, and branding.
Develop a culture supporting health and well-being across the university and from local to global communities, through effective engagement, education, and service.
Establish innovative and entrepreneurial business practices to support revenue generation efforts and resource management.
Our Vision (Why)
We enhance health and quality of life.
Our Mission (What)
We create transformative learning experiences, advance knowledge through research and scholarly activity, and engage local and global communities.
Our Values (How)
We are a learning organization that intentionally cultivates a diverse, inclusive, interprofessional, student-centered, healthful culture of excellence. In this context, our work is guided by the following values:
Collaboration: The action of working with others to produce or create something. This includes, but is not limited to, interprofessional collaboration.
Empowerment: The process by which individuals, groups and/or communities become able to take control of their circumstances and achieve their own goals, thereby being able to work towards helping themselves and others to maximize the quality of their lives.
Innovation: The introduction of something new. A new idea, method, or device.
Social Responsibility: Is an ethical framework and suggests that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large.
Sustainability: The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level. The ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
Trust: Firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.
Vitality: Capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence.
Our College (Who)
The College of Health and Human Services was established in 2010 as a doorway for the University of North Carolina Wilmington to make a positive impact on the health and quality of life of individuals, families, and communities in Southeastern North Carolina and beyond.
The overarching purpose of the CHHS is to help those in our local and global communities live healthier, more prosperous, and empowered lives. This purpose is rooted in the core belief that every person should have equal opportunity to enjoy a long and healthy life.
The College of Health and Human Services is an integrative structure that includes three professional schools:
