The vision of KWB is to encourage the formation of communities of scholarship for University Phoenix faculty, students, and alumni. Our overarching objectives include: - To improve the performance of the organizations, communities, and schools our faculty, students, and alumni serve.  - To cultivate and sustain a productive community of scholarship to include the production and dissemination of best instructional practices for reaching and teaching the working adult.  - To enhance the foundational research and proposal development skills necessary for an engaged practitioner/leader/scholar - To inform and illustrate the preparations necessary for planning, preparing, and producing scholarly work. - To provide guidance concerning the development of a research agenda as it relates to disciplines of study or fields of inquiry. - To provide an opportunity to engage in an active community of scholarship. - To develop strategies for writing for publication.