Whole-person health, lived every day
At the Morrison Family College of Health, we prepare health professionals to care for the whole person — mind, body, spirit, and community.
Across disciplines, students learn to work collaboratively, address root causes of health challenges, and advance health equity for individuals and communities.
Our Mission
We prepare highly skilled and caring professionals who are culturally responsive, practice with ingenuity, and proactively advance health equity and social justice.
Our Vision
Informed by Catholic social teaching, the Morrison Family College of Health educates health providers and leaders to skillfully, compassionately, and collaboratively advance the physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
Our Values
These values shape how we teach, conduct research, collaborate, and serve.
Innovation
Reimagining how health is taught, delivered, and experienced to expand access and impact.
Equity
Addressing root causes of health disparities and dismantling systems that prevent people from flourishing.
Collaboration
Working across disciplines, professions, and communities to deliver high quality care because no one improves health alone.
How We Live Our Mission
Four guiding principles shape every program, experience, and partnership in the College of Health.
Health is more than a diagnosis. Students learn to care for the mind, body, spirit, and community — while understanding how social, economic, environmental and political factors shape health outcomes.
Whole Person Health is our organizing framework — not a slogan.
From day one, students learn to see health as an interconnected system. Across nursing, social work, psychology, and health & exercise science, students work togetherto understand how physical, mental, social, and spiritual factors interact to shape health outcomes and how to move upstream to prevent poor health conditions from happening along with how to skillfully address health issues as they emerge.
This approach extends beyond the classroom through research, partnerships, and convenings that bring practitioners, policymakers and community members together to co-create solutions.
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We challenge students to ask better questions, test new approaches, and design solutions that improve care, prevention, access, and affordability.
Interprofessional learning and collaboration across disciplines are essential to addressing today’s complex health challenges — and are built into the student experience from day one.
Through programs like the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services (IPC), students and faculty from social work, psychology and law collaborate to serve individuals and families facing complex legal, psychological, and social challenges.
These experiences prepare graduates to lead on interprofessional teams and deliver truly integrated care.
A strong liberal arts foundation paired with rigorous science and hands-on learning prepares graduates to navigate complexity with skill and empathy.
Students learn in state-of-the-art facilities and apply their knowledge in real-world settings through clinical, field, and community-based experiences.
The College works closely with our community to ensure learning is relevant, applied and mutually beneficial, while helping address urgent workforce and health equity needs.
- Community Partners
- Clinical & Field Partners
- Continuing Education
Students learn not only how to deliver care, but how to identify and change the conditions — such as racism and poverty — that drive health inequities.
They don't just learn how systems work — they learn how to improve them. Grounded in Catholic social teaching, students examine root causes of inequity and develop the skills to advocate for more just and effective systems.
Health equity and social justice are woven throughout every program. Students have opportunities to focus their work in areas they are passionate about, from working with older adults to supporting immigrant and refugee communities.
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