Walden University

Campus Report ^ | October 21, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Bethany Stotts, October 21, 2009

The newsmagazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ranked Walden University among the top ten of its “top 100 Graduate Degree Producers” in a number of categories this year, many rankings of which were for Master’s degrees in Education among minority populations such as the African-American, Hispanic and Asian communities. Diverse also placed Walden in 4th place for its number of “total minority” Masters degree graduates in Education.

But what, exactly, is Walden teaching the nation’s future minority teachers?

Walden faculty members featured at the University’s 2009 Social Change Conference offered a clue.

In response to a question on how social entrepreneurs can measure their impact, Dr. Kathia Laszlo, a Walden Faculty member, encouraged conference attendees not to look at just the quantitative indicators, like “numbers of people,” but also qualitative measures like “what is the awareness that comes from interacting with my organization?” “Well that’s, that’s the thing, because it requires also a commitment to have those conversations and to build those relationships and to really getting [to] understanding what are people thinking and what are people feeling so that can also be part of the engagement,” she said at the conference, concluding that “it’s all about citizenship participation.”

Prof. Laszlo co-founded Syntony Quest, which seeks to develop “Evolutionary Learning Communities” (ELCs) and promote sustainability. She also helps teach the “Green MBA” program at the Dominican University of California (DUC). The DUC website states that “The Green MBA curriculum is made up of three major components: business fundamentals, sustainability, and leaders.”...

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Can some Freeper explain for me the connection between the real Walden University and the one that frequently appears in the Doonesbury strip?