Donna M. and Robert J. Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dean’s Welcome Message
Welcome to the Donna M. and Robert J. Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences! We are a college devoted to excellence, diversity, and anti-racism. As the most diverse, and one of the leading colleges of Nursing and Health Sciences in the Northeast, coupled with a growing national and international reputation, we are sure that your time here will be filled with inspiring, challenging, scholarly and personal opportunities to build your careers.
The Donna M. and Robert J. Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences will support you in reaching your educational goals. We also envision your success will breathe life into our mission and vision leading to promoting and improving health and well-being, while eliminating health inequities across Massachusetts, the nation, and the globe. We will support and guide you as you become a force for improving both individual and community health while also working to reduce the enormous health inequities that exist in our society today. We envision you will become a change agent for improved health, transforming our society to a point where health inequities no longer exist.
The Donna M. and Robert J. Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the University of Massachusetts Boston’s staff, faculty, and administration are your larger support community committed to your success. Individually and collectively, our talented faculty, staff and students will strive to help you become a Beacon of Success. Our aim is to help you thrive by providing you with an intellectually rich and inclusive environment that fosters your growth toward professional and scholarly work so you can advance population health and health equity in practice, leadership, or research positions.
Our faculty are nationally and internationally known for their research and scholarly work in prevention and health management across the life course and are specialists and experts in cardio-metabolic health, cancer care, sexual health, maternal and child health, aging adults, digital health, physical activity and exercise, from intervention to policy research in the context of community engagement. Our staff are committed to developing your body, mind, and spirit and will often go the extra mile because they see themselves in you. We also seek to learn from each other by valuing and respecting the diversity of our students from many countries, cultures, perspectives, and experiences in health care, exercise, and health behaviors.
We cannot wait for you become a BEACON! Every moment of your time with us contains possibilities that can change your life in every way.
Stay open to those possibilities!
All the best,
Bo Fernhall, PhD
Dean of MCNHS
Strategic Plan Framework
Vision
MCNHS is a leader in advancing optimal individual and population health and health equity over the life course in local, national, and global communities.
Strategic Priorities
- Student Success
- Research
- Reputation
- Healthy Work Environment
- Academic Programming
Values
- Excellence: We value improvement, development, and growth. We continuously commit to reaching the highest possible standards and outcomes in our academics, research, and community engagement.
- Diversity, Equity, and Belonging: We actively work to build a sense of belonging, and meet the various needs of students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community partners. We are anti-racist. We are intentional about removing barriers that might keep anyone in our college from achieving success.
- Integrity: We communicate honestly and transparently. We build trust by being accountable for our actions and through commitment to our other values.
- Collaboration, Community, and Service: We strive to work together cohesively across and within departments, programs, centers, and institutes, and with members of our communities beyond the college. We work together to develop shared meaning and purpose in our collaborations and partnerships.
- Respect: We practice generosity and deep respect for one another's abilities, skills, and perspectives. Whether in disagreement or agreement, we seek to understand and value each other and to reach understanding or consensus.