Saybrook University

{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox university | name = Saybrook University | former_name = Humanistic Psychology Institute, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center | established = 1971 | type = Private university | parent = The Community Solution Education System | president = Jeremy Moreland | city = Pasadena | state = California | country = U.S. | academic_staff = 156 | students = 622 (Fall 2016) | campus = Urban | website = {{URL|http://saybrook.edu/}} | image = Saybrook University Logo.png | accreditation = WSCUC | newspaper = | colors = }}

'''Saybrook University''' is a private university in Pasadena, California, United States. It was founded in 1971 by Eleanor Camp Criswell<ref>Eleanor Camp Criswell (born May 12, 1938) - After her marriage to philosopher Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 - July 29, 1990) on June 25, 1974, she began being referred to as Eleanor Criswell Hanna.</ref> and others. 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 accredited by the WASC Senior Colleges and University Commission.<ref name=WASCsaybrook/><ref name=WASCrecognition/> The university is classified an exclusively graduate institution with programs that are "Research Doctoral: Humanities/social sciences-dominant".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=123095 |title=Carnegie Classifications {{!}} Institution Lookup|website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref> As of Fall of 2017 the university had 785 students enrolled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=123095 |title=Saybrook University |website=American Council on Education |accessdate=November 5, 2022 |date=2022}}</ref> The university reported 222 full-time and part-time academic faculty in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=saybrook&s=all&id=123095#general|title=College Navigator - Saybrook University|website=nces.ed.gov|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref>

==History== Eleanor Camp Criswell, along with Rollo May, Clark Moustakas, and James Bugental, founded the Humanistic Psychology Institute at California State University, Sonoma in 1971.<ref name=Bailey/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.saybrook.edu/forum/univ/alumni-support-saybrooks-golden-heritage/|title=Alumni Support Saybrook's Golden Heritage - Saybrook University|date=2009-02-23|newspaper=Saybrook University|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-15}}</ref><ref name=APA/> Author Michael Mayer recalls that the Saybrook name derives from Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where during a conference in 1964 several psychologists, including Rollo May and Carl Rogers, 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".<ref name="Mayer" />

Under the leadership of Criswell and philosopher Thomas Louis Hanna, the school began offering graduate courses in humanistic psychology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saybrook.edu/about_saybrook/historical_origins.asp|title=Saybrook: Historical Origins|date=2007-10-31|access-date=2016-11-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031065131/http://www.saybrook.edu/about_saybrook/historical_origins.asp|archive-date=2007-10-31}}</ref> In the 1970s, the school moved to the Burr Mansion in Cow Hollow, San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Broyles |first1=Susan G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecnjAAAAMAAJ |title=Education Directory: Colleges and Universities |last2=Davis |first2=Geneva C. |publisher=U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Education Division, National Center for Education Statistics, Division of Survey Planning and Analysis, Higher Education Surveys Branch |others=National Center for Education Statistics |date=December 1981 |pages=20 |language=en}}</ref> Later on it was renamed the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.<ref name="Bailey" />

In 2009, the school was renamed Saybrook University.<ref name="Bailey" /> In 2014, Saybrook became affiliated with The Community Solution Education System, a shared-services university system created by The Chicago School, to provide administrative and financial services so that Saybrook could focus on teaching and research.<ref name="Ed Letter" /><ref name="Ed Biz Weekly" /> The same year, the administrative offices of the school moved from San Francisco to Oakland, California.<ref>{{Cite web | title = We've moved! - Saybrook Forum | access-date = 2014-11-09 | url = http://www.saybrook.edu/forum/univ/weve-moved }}</ref> The administrative offices now are located in Pasadena, California.

==Academics== It offers programs in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies (non-clinical), Clinical Psychology, Psychophysiology, Mind-Body Medicine, Leadership and Management, Counseling, Integrative Wellness Coaching, Transformative Social Change, and Integrative and Functional Nutrition.

The school's president is Nathan Long.<ref name="Ed Letter2">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-278985255.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223725/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-278985255.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2014|title=Saybrook University Appoints Chip Conley Inaugural Scholar-Practitioner in Residence|last1=Staff Writer|date=January 18, 2012|access-date=July 10, 2014|publisher=Education Letter}}</ref>

=== Colleges === The university awards Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees as well as certificates. These programs are housed in colleges and schools:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catalog.saybrook.edu/content.php?catoid=94&navoid=6684|title=College of Social Sciences|website=Saybrook University Catalog|access-date=October 19, 2018}}</ref>

*College of Social Sciences **Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology **Department of Counseling **Department of Leadership and Management **Department of Transformative Social Change **Department of Business Administration *College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences **Department of Integrative Wellness Coaching **Department of Integrative and Functional Nutrition **Department of Applied Psychophysiology **Department of Mind-Body Medicine

===Rankings=== Based on a survey of academic programs, ''U.S. 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.<ref name=USnewsRanking/><ref name=USnewsFAQ/> The United States National Research Council rankings (NRC) ranked Saybrook in a tied tier between 173 and 174 out of 185 in its 2014 rankings of 185 psychology PhD programs.<ref name=NRCranking/>

== Accreditation == Saybrook University is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://catalog.saybrook.edu/content.php?catoid=94&navoid=6672|title=Accreditation and Authorizations|website=Saybrook University Catalog|access-date=October 19, 2018}}</ref> Saybrook's M.A. in counseling is accredited by The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/counseling/ma-counseling/ | title=M.A. Counseling: Clinical Mental Health Counseling | Saybrook }}</ref> however the remainder of its clinical mental health programs are not accredited by any major national accrediting body or major professional organizations' accrediting bodies like the American Psychological Association (APA) (which does not accredit distance-learning programs).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apa.org/education/grad/online-programs.aspx|title=Online Education: Graduate Programs |website=apa.org |access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref> This can cause problems with licensure or employment in certain agencies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.credentialwatch.org/non/california_approved.shtml |title=California Psychology Schools That Were Approved But Not Accredited Between 1991 and 2016 |website=www.credentialwatch.org |date=15 February 2007 |access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bestvalueschools.com/faq/will-attending-unaccredited-degree-program-impact-employment-prospects/ |title=Will Attending an Unaccredited Degree Program Impact My Employment Prospects? |date=2017-05-30|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref>

== Student demographics == {| class="wikitable" |+Fall 2020 enrollment - Race/ethnicity<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.saybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SAY-Student-Achievement-Metrics-2017.pdf|title=Saybrook University Student Achievement Data 2017|website=Saybrook University|access-date=October 19, 2018}}</ref> !Program !Total Students !International !Latino/Hispanic !American Indian/Alaska Native !Asian !Black/African American !White !Two or More Races !Not Reported |- |Certificates |6 |0% |0% |0% |16.7% |0% |83.3% |0% |0% |- |Master's |143 |0% |11.3% |2.5% |1.8% |15.6% |58.8% |3.8% |6.9% |- |Doctoral |524 |1.6% |12% |0.6% |4.5% |17.1% |48.3% |7.1% |8.2% |- |Total |785 |1.3% |11.7% |0.8% |4.2% |16.7% |50.7% |6.4% |7.2% |} {| class="wikitable" |+Fall 2020 Enrollment - Gender<ref name=":0" /> !Program !Male !Female !Non Binary |- |Certificates |2 |4 |0 |- |Master's |25 |134 |1 |- |Doctoral |122 |496 |1 |- |Total |149 (19%) |634 (80.8%) |2 (.3%) |}

== Notable faculty == <gallery>

File:Gary Metcalf.jpg|Gary S. Metcalf File:ChipConley Google.jpg|Chip Conley </gallery>Notable faculty include Gary S. Metcalf at the School of Organizational Leadership and Transformation<ref name="facultyK" /> and author Chip Conley.<ref name="Ed Letter2" />

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=APA>Michael Price (November 2011). [http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/11/meaning.aspx "Searching for meaning"]. American Psychological Association. Retrieved 3 July 2014.</ref>

<ref name=Bailey>Margaret Bailey, Greg Dewey (January 2014) [https://wascsenior.app.box.com/s/fyhskrj71uqv71etsd10 "Report on the Structural Change Visit: Saybrook University In the case of the Change of Control with TCS Education System"]. Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Retrieved 7 July 2014.</ref>

<ref name="Ed Biz Weekly">{{cite news|last1=Staff Writer|title=Accreditors Approve Saybrook University Alliance with TCS Education System|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-362510055.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714122430/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-362510055.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2014|access-date=July 10, 2014|publisher=Education Business Weekly|date=March 19, 2014}}</ref>

<ref name="Ed Letter">{{cite news|last1=Staff Writer|title=TCS Education System and Saybrook University Join Forces|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-348011176.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224506/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-348011176.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2014|access-date=July 10, 2014|publisher=Education Letter|date=October 23, 2013}}</ref>

<ref name=facultyK>https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=123095 . SCARNEGIE CLASSIFICATION OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Retrieved 17 December 2021.</ref>

<ref name=Mayer>{{cite book|last1=Mayer|first1=Michael|title=The Path of a Reluctant Metaphysician|date=12 June 2012|publisher=The Body Mind Healing Center|isbn=978-0983966500|page=99}}</ref>

<ref name=NRCranking>{{cite web|title=NRC Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Program|url=http://www.socialpsychology.org/ranking.htm|access-date=20 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=USnewsFAQ>[https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2013/09/09/frequently-asked-questions-2014-best-colleges-rankings#21 "What does it mean when a school is marked as Rank Not Published or Unranked?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423062107/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2013/09/09/frequently-asked-questions-2014-best-colleges-rankings |date=2014-04-23 }} US News FAQ. Retrieved 8 July 2014.</ref>

<ref name=USnewsRanking>[http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/psychology-rankings/page+10 "Best Psychology Programs | Top Psychology Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools", Psychology, page 10]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved 8 July 2014.</ref>

<ref name=WASCsaybrook>[http://www.wascsenior.org/institutions/saybrook-university "Statement of Accreditation Status: Saybrook University"] WASC Senior College and University Commission. Retrieved 3 July 2014.</ref>

<ref name=WASCrecognition>[http://www.wascsenior.org/about "About WASC Senior"] WASC Senior College and University Commission. Retrieved 3 July 2014.</ref> }}

==External links== * [http://www.saybrook.edu Official website]

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