Mission Statements
The School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) is home to the Department of Counseling & Marital and Family Therapy, Department of Leadership Studies and Department of Learning and Teaching. Each department embodies SOLES core mission to educate, engage, model, mentor and challenge the campus community to promote social justice and ignite meaningful change in our diverse society.
Department of
Counseling & Marital and Family Therapy
Department Mission:
The Department of Counseling and Marital and Family Therapy, housed within SOLES, prepares ethical, compassionate, and highly skilled mental health professionals. Grounded in social justice and supported by nationally accredited programs, we integrate rigorous training, personalized mentorship, and diverse clinical experiences to prepare graduates who meet evolving community needs and lead with impact locally and globally.
Department of
Leadership Studies
Department Mission:
- Facilitate the development of knowledge, skills and dispositions of current and future leaders, both those with positional power and those who exercise leadership and influence informally
- Contribute to advancing the study of leadership to address the most challenging issues of our societies
- Provide service that promotes equity and inclusion for social justice at local, national and global levels to professions, communities and the larger society
Department of
Learning and Teaching
Department Mission:
To prepare its students to address the needs of the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-racial birth through adult student population and to advance scholarship that helps to promote this process.
Members of our department learning-community are committed to: critical inquiry, international and global citizenship, diversity and inclusion, anti-racism, and change for a more just world.