Santa Clara University

Educating compassionate professionals to transform lives, schools, and communities

Guided by a strong dedication to academic excellence and service to society, the
School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries at Santa Clara
University prepares our students to become competent, caring, and ethical professional
leaders who promote the common good as they transform lives, schools, and
communities.

To that end, the School’s graduate degrees, credentials, and continuing education
pursue the following learning goals:

Embracing a professional ideal that encompasses educating the whole person who
respects people from all ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds
as well as of various genders, sexual orientations, ages, or abilities;

Gaining professional competence through advanced knowledge, theory, research,
and practice;Using conscience, guided by professional ethical standards, to improve self and society;

Developing compassion to promote social justice and to serve others, especially
those in greatest need; and

Fostering a commitment to leadership and lifelong learning to transform lives,
schools, and communities.

As faculty, staff, and students in this School, we seek to create a community of
learners within the context of a Catholic and Jesuit University mission dedicated to the
rigorous pursuit of truth, determined to develop professional excellence, and devoted to
promoting social justice for the common good.