Mission & Values

Mission Statement

Saybrook University provides rigorous graduate education that inspires transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities, toward a just, humane, and sustainable world.

Values Statement

In fulfillment of this mission, Saybrook University:

Applies humanistic values to higher education to cultivate the highest potential of each individual
Honors multiple ways of knowing and being.
Celebrates diversity and encourages authentic expression
Emphasizes scholarship with empathy, compassion, creativity, and integrity
Manifests the courage to explore the new and the different
Engages dialogue as an essential and vital teaching and learning modality
Nurtures optimism and responsibility for the future of ourselves, our communities, and our world.

Our Community Profiles

Keima Sheriff
Organizational Systems Student

"I could have gone to programs close to my home, but none of them offered this humanistic approach: none put the human being at the center."

Stanley Krippner
Psychology Faculty

"Psychology’s frontiers are what have interested me through my career, because I think: ‘this is where important discoveries could be made.'"

Monica Dixon
Psychology Alumna '98

"Saybrook rattled me to a core, and I loved every minute of it."