Mission: College Division and Graduate School of Gratz College

The mission of the College Division and Graduate School of Gratz College (the “College”) is to provide a superior education to students seeking academic and professional credentials in Jewish studies and degrees for teaching in public, private and parochial schools. Founded in 1895 as the first non-denominational institution of advanced Jewish studies in the United States, the College develops leaders and educators for the American Jewish community and American society as a whole. The College is also dedicated to transmitting Jewish history and culture to members of the Jewish community at large.

Goals and Objectives

The College achieves this mission by:

• Offering graduate and undergraduate degree programs that thoroughly prepare students to lead professionally in the fields of Jewish education, Jewish communal service, Jewish music and Jewish studies
• Offering graduate degrees and individual courses in education to enhance the instructional techniques and proficiencies of elementary and secondary school teachers, thus improving the quality of their pedagogy
• Providing broad access to Jewish learning to members of the regional, national and international Jewish community through distance learning, through opportunities to audit courses on campus, and through encouraging full utilization of the rich resources of the Tuttleman Library of Gratz college
  
• Serving the public through the faculty of the College Division and Graduate School who provide professional expertise and engaged teaching in houses of worship, community centers, schools and other institutions and organizations in collaboration with Gratz’s Continuing Education Division; and
• Enriching scholarship in Jewish studies and education through research, faculty publications and academic presentations.