Morrison Family College of Health
Your support prepares compassionate, skilled health professionals who advance whole person care, strengthen communities and improve lives across Minnesota and beyond.
Your support prepares compassionate, skilled health professionals who advance whole person care, strengthen communities and improve lives across Minnesota and beyond.
Demand for skilled health professionals continues to grow as communities face workforce shortages and increasingly complex health needs. The Morrison Family College of Health is preparing the next generation of compassionate, practice-ready professionals through hands-on learning, clinical partnerships and an innovative approach to whole person care.
Your support expands access to this education through scholarships, strengthens faculty excellence and creates transformative learning experiences that prepare graduates to lead meaningful change in health care.
Rebuilding Fragmented Systems: The current health care landscape is challenging us to be bolder. Health care systems tend to be interventionist, fragmented and individualistic. We want to re-think how we approach health and design family- and community-centered systems, while addressing the needs of the whole person: physical, mental, social and spiritual.
Dedicated to Health Equity: The Morrison Family College of Health is designed to fill unmet needs in the community and for those who are underserved in society. Across Minnesota, in rural and urban communities, the social and economic influencers of health must be addressed to ignite structural change so that every person – no matter their background – can live a healthy life. Integrating different academic programs that hold the promise of new solutions to address the root causes of inequity will move us closer to staying strong, healthy and economically vibrant.
Growing Our Workforce: There is an acute need for nursing, mental health, social work, public health and other health services that help people, families and communities thrive. The Morrison Family College of Health equips students with technical skills, critical thinking skills and cultural competency skills to treat patients and help families by choice or birth stay healthy in a dynamic and rapidly changing world.
Your generosity helps prepare compassionate, practice-ready health professionals while advancing whole person care and healthier communities.
Catholic social teaching calls upon us to uplift and serve the dignity of every person, and we are working to be a powerful, positive disruptor. Your scholarship gift supports students who will take their health care experience back to their communities, creating a ripple effect leading to better health outcomes for all.
Be part of a groundbreaking effort to address the social factors that shape nearly 80% of health outcomes, from housing and nutrition to financial stability. Your support helps establish and expand this new center dedicated to advancing health equity and building healthier communities.
With your help, the Morrison Family College of Health can sustain its rapid growth, strengthen programs through endowed faculty positions and bring the most effective health innovations to MFCOH students.
Discover how the Morrison Family College of Health has transformed the lives of our students, enabling them to pursue their passions and achieve their academic goals.
The Founding Dean and Morrison Family Distinguished Chair
For Dr. MayKao Hang, developing the next generation of health leaders who respond to the people who live in our communities right now is critical.
"It is really about educating leaders who are going to go out into the world to have the moral courage and the cultural competency to deliver services...but can also advocate to highlight and remove the barriers for those who are underserved," says Dr. Hang. "The Morrison Family College of Health was built just five years ago from the ground up, so we were able to design this with the future in mind. That means being far more globally, ethically and technology oriented."
Leaving a Legacy
As leaders at St. Thomas for more than three decades, John and Sue Morrison have further cemented their legacy at the university as naming donors of the Morrison Family College of Health.
"I'm extraordinarily grateful to John and Sue and the Morrison family," says Dr. Julie Sullivan, President of the University of St. Thomas (2013-2022). "They share our excitement for this college's potential to address systemic health care challenges in our communities. This approach is fully aligned with our mission to produce graduates who can advance the common good."
Your generosity expands opportunity for future health professionals, strengthens innovative education and creates the experiences that prepare graduates to improve lives through whole person care.