Walden residencies are designed to prepare you for your doctoral journey. Key goals of the Walden doctoral residency experience include:

• 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.
• 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 EdD residency experiences:

1. Use critical thinking skills expected of doctoral students.
2. Engage faculty and peers in discourse that contributes to the collective advancement of scholarship in their discipline.
3. Identify strategies for using Walden’s support resources  for continued professional development as scholar-practitioners.
4. Communicate effectively with others.
5. Effectively communicate research ideas.
6. Conceptualize Doctoral Studies that have the potential to contribute to positive social change.
7. Understand the steps necessary at Walden to complete a Doctoral Study.
8. Critically assess research.

As a result of successful completion of this residency, you will be able to:

1. Use critical thinking skills expected of doctoral students,
2. Engage faculty and peers in discourse that contributes to the collective advancement of scholarship in their discipline,
3. Identify strategies for using Walden’s support resources for continued professional development as scholar-practitioners,
4. Communicate effectively with others,
5. Effectively communicate research ideas,
6. Conceptualize Doctoral Studies that have the potential to contribute to positive social change,
7. Understand the steps necessary at Walden to complete a Doctoral Study,
8. Critically assess research.