Walden residencies are designed to prepare you for your doctoral journey and to provide opportunities for:

• Reflecting on academic direction and what it means to be a doctoral student and a scholar-practitioner.
• Effectively engaging students within their academic and professional disciplines.
• Receiving a variety of technical, Student Success Advising, and faculty advising support services using a complementary combination of face-to-face and virtual best practices.
• Using skills required for professional competence.
• Building self-efficacy to conceptualize, design, and carry out scholarly research to solve problems related to professional practice that contributes to positive social change.
• Rendering research and project study findings meaningful to multiple audiences.
• Building relationships and networks (i.e., faculty members, staff, and students) that foster academic and professional success.
• Engaging faculty members and students in peer review and scholarly discourse that reflects critical thinking.
• Modeling appropriate professional behavior used in scholarly discourse by students and faculty members.
• Ensuring that students understand the differences in program models and their requirements to determine the most appropriate academic fit.

The following are key learning outcomes you will be expected to achieve as part of your residency experiences:

Residency 1

1. Understand program requirements and expectations.
2. Understand the steps to take for program completion.
3. Establish a potential network with other students.
4. Exchange ideas with faculty members.
5. Understand the mentor/chair/student relationship.
6. Draft a research problem and identify its implications to positive social change.
7. Understand research designs and methodologies common in chosen field.
8. Access current literature in chosen field.
9. Understand the role research plays in social change.
10. Communicate learning and research interests to others.
11. Present academic work.

Residency 2

1. Understand program requirements and expectations.
2. Understand the steps to take for program completion.
3. Establish a potential network with other students.
4. Exchange ideas with faculty members.
5. Understand the mentor/chair/student relationship.
6. Draft a research problem and identify its implications to positive social change.
7. Understand research designs and methodologies common in the chosen field.
8. Access current literature in the chosen field.
9. Understand the role research plays in social change.
10. Communicate learning and research interests to others.
11. Present academic work.