Welcome to the School of Education

We invite you to join our community of learners at the University of St. Thomas. Our community is made up of present students and alumni, faculty, administrative staff and supportive regional, national and international stakeholders who believe in seeking a better world through learning, scholarship and human service. Your studies at St. Thomas are offered in the liberal arts tradition, and are intended to initiate or advance your purpose, knowledge and skills as a critically reflective practitioner of a professional education or human development specialty.

This catalog of programs provides you with information about approaches to professional development and specific credentials that meet or exceed the expectations of the education agencies and human development fields.

Your studies at St. Thomas will encourage and prepare you to:

• Challenge unexamined assumptions through constructive intellectual engagement by you, faculty and fellow students and come to a more complex understanding of yourself and your students or clients
• Form knowledge-based ethical commitments within the context of a continuously changing world
• Seek a common ground for dialog and constructive action
• Form questions about the relationship of a particular field of study and your life’s calling.

These issues are crucial to your ongoing development as a learning-based professional.

The School of Education at St. Thomas seeks to build a safe, challenging environment where you can meet your own personal and occupational objectives, and a mentoring environment that provides challenge, support and inspiration for all members of our learning community.

We welcome diversity of cultures, needs and ideas to fuel the kind of intense engagement of focused learning we have prided ourselves in providing for more than 80 years. We believe that our faculty, staff and students are helping to shape a better world through values-based learning, scholarship and service. We invite you to join us.

UST Mission

Inspired by Catholic intellectual tradition, the University of St. Thomas educates students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely and work skillfully to advance the common good.

Accreditation

The University of St. Thomas is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. All education programs offered for licensure are approved by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. All administrative licensure programs are approved by the Minnesota Board of School Administrators.

Affirmative Action

The University of St. Thomas does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion,  national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or status with regard to public assistance in the employment of faculty or staff, the admission or treatment of students, or in the operation of its educational programs and activities. Questions regarding the university’s policy of Equal Employment Opportunity should be addressed to the equal opportunity officer or affirmative action office.

Disclaimer

This catalog is accurate to the best of our knowledge and ability at the time of publication, but is subject to change. Previous versions of the catalog are available at www.stthomas.edu/education/catalog/archive

It is the student’s responsibility to know and meet graduation requirements and academic policies.