umass amherst nursing phd program

• Prepared to innovate and lead multidisciplinary and multisector

collaborations in a variety of settings

• Combine principled high-quality integrative approaches to

research and scholarship with creativity and a radical imagination

• Able to integrate philosophy, theory, history, humanities and

the arts into research, scholarship and praxis

• Committed to lifelong learning and organizing for change

• Active in dismantling racism and systemic oppression

• Reflexive about power and positionality, and accountable for

their own actions and impacts

• Practicing inclusivity and accessibility, and growing within

communities of practice

• Recognize and articulate the interdependence of all beings

with each other and the planet

• Nurture relationships with colleagues, communities and the

environment through acts of collective care, such as teaching

and learning and mutual mentorship

• Promote health, healing, and sustainability