Type Private; Graduate President Nathan Long Website www.saybrook.edu Total enrollment 559 (2010) Founded 1971 | Established 1971 Campus Urban Undergraduate tuition and fees 21,400 USD (2011) Phone +1 510-593-2900 | |
Location Oakland, California, United States Address 475 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612, USA Notable alumni Christopher Ryan, Gary Metcalf, Kirk J Schneider, Richard Tarnas, Alberto Villoldo Similar California Institute of Integral S, The Chicago School of, Pacific Oaks College, Sofia University, Fielding Graduate University Profiles | ||
Saybrook University is an educational institution founded in 1971. It offers postgraduate education with a focus on humanistic psychology. It features low residency, master's and doctoral degrees and professional certification programs. The university is regionally accredited by the Senior Colleges and Universities Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). As of 2014 the university served 600 students.
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History
Eleanor Criswell, along with Rollo May, Clark Moustakas, and James Bugental, founded the Humanistic Psychology Institute at California State University, Sonoma in 1971. Under the leadership of Eleanor Criswell and Thomas Hanna the school began offering graduate courses in humanistic psychology.
Later on it was renamed the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.
Author Michael Mayer recalls that the Saybrook name derives from Saybrook, Connecticut, where during a conference in 1964 several psychologists, including May, expressed a desire "to create a school that embodied the values of the 'human growth and potential movement' and to educate practitioner-scholars in the methods and philosophies of human-centered psychotherapy". In 2009, the school was renamed Saybrook University. The university became affiliated with the shared services organization TCS Education System in 2014 to provide administrative and financial services, so that the school could focus on teaching and research. The same year, the school moved from San Francisco to Oakland, California.
Academics
The university aims to provide "rigorous graduate education that inspires transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities, toward a just, humane, and sustainable world." It offers programs in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies (non-clinical), Clinical Psychology, Mind-Body Medicine, and Organizational Leadership and Transformation.
The school's president is Nathan Long and psychiatrist James S. Gordon is the Dean of the Saybrook University Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Notable faculty include Stanley Krippner at the School of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Gary S. Metcalf at the School of Organizational Leadership and Transformation and author Chip Conley.
Rankings
Based on a survey of academic programs, US News & World Report ranked Saybrook's psychology program in the bottom quartile of its 2013 ranking of graduate psychology programs. The precise rankings in this quartile are not published. The United States National Research Council rankings (NRC) ranked Saybrook 173/174 out of 185 in its 2014 rankings of 185 psychology PhD programs.