Fordham University Graduate School of Education

In keeping with the University’s Jesuit tradition of rigorous academic endeavor, service to complex metropolitan communities and dedication to the intellectual, moral and social development of the person, the mission of the Graduate School of Education is to establish and maintain programs of study, service and research that develop teachers, counselors, psychologists, administrators and other educators: • who are committed to personal and institutional excellence; • who have the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary as practitioner-researchers to apply and expand the theory and knowledge of their disciplines to meet the varied educational and counseling needs of richly diverse metropolitan communities; • and who have the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to recognize the changing demands of our multilingual, multicultural environment and to shape educational, counseling and other experiences to meet students’ and clients’ needs.