The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) emphasized the need to revolutionize the governance and curriculum of nursing academe to optimize nursing scholarship, healthcare quality, and contributions to national healthcare reform efforts (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2016). Restructured governance of nursing academe can unify nurse scholars and clinicians as partners in achieving national healthcare transformation objectives (AACN, 2016). The mounting gap between nursing academe and clinical practice is postulated as a critical problem contributing to poor healthcare quality in America. Non-progressive academic nursing preparation has been associated with decreased professional nursing licensure examination scores and increased medical error rates among newly licensed nurses (AACN, 2016; Sebastian et al., 2018). Non-integration of nursing leadership and faculty within healthcare delivery governance structure is a principal factor in the growing education-practice misalignment (AACN, 2016). This article will 1) provide a brief description of current academic nursing governance challenges that have impeded faculty integration with clinical practice and 2) propose three innovative solutions for optimizing reciprocal beneficence for future Academic-Practice Partnership models.