All courses are offered at the Fairfield campus and Lisbon extension. Selected graduate courses may be taken off-campus in Stamford. There is a direct correlation between the level of professional effectiveness and the level of personal intellectual, emotional, social and moral maturity. Teaching and administration are a calling centered on service to the community, especially to children and youth. These two principles are not separate but operate in synergy.
Professional excellence requires a broad base of knowledge, skill, and a personal vision and caring.
This results in personal commitment to excellence of achievement at a personal level and ultimately at the level of society. To promote personal excellence through a study of self with the aim of helping the student to reach an appropriate level of intellectual, emotional, social and moral maturity. To center the teacher's and administrator' s education on the caring for students, resulting in their social, psychological and cognitive growth. To help teachers and administrators to be able to investigate, to critically analyze, and, with personal commitment, to effect change in anything that is unjust or inadequate regarding American schools. To prepare students on the baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate levels to be personally and professionally effective as beginning teachers.