Welcome Back Steinhardt Undergraduate and Graduate Students

I am delighted to welcome you to the 2007-2008 academic year at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. We feel a wonderful sense of excitement and promise as we begin the new academic year.

A new school year is an occasion for you to grow personally and intellectually, to challenge yourself and others, and as our University motto proclaims, "to persist and to excel." Senator J. William Fulbright wrote that the highest function of higher education is "the teaching of things in perspective," with the goal of "enriching the life of the individual, cultivating the free and inquiring mind, and advancing the effort to bring reason, justice, and humanity into the relations of men (women) and nations." This is a tall order, but a goal worth striving for.

Steinhardt is a community of faculty, students, and staff who work to improve our local and global communities through applied psychology, art, communication, education, health, and music. We urge you to take advantage of all that is available to you in the School, your Department, and the University. Work with your professors; engage your classmates; enrich your life and the lives of those around you; become an involved and participatory citizen in our community.

I hope, too, that you will make the Office of Student Affairs and your advisor first stops with any questions you may have. Please take advantage of the many services, events, and opportunities noted in the September edition of Student Matters (pdf), our newsletter for undergraduate and graduate students in NYU Steinhardt.

Welcome to NYU Steinhardt.

Mary Brabeck, Ph.D
Dean