Disposition Statement

All prospective and admitted students to the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions are expected to demonstrate the personal and professional dispositions that are:

• embodied in the mission statement of the GSEAP;
• outlined in the ethical codes of their chosen profession;
• and stipulated by their particular graduate departments.

Education, psychology, and mental health professionals must be held to the highest standards as they prepare to serve the public in important ways. Students who exhibit attitudes, beliefs, values, or behavior not consistent with these dispositions, or who do not demonstrate the potential to do so:

• may be denied admission to the program;
• may be required to participate successfully with academic remediation;
• may be required to demonstrate emotional and behavioral intervention prior to a decision allowing them to continue their studies;
• may be dismissed from the program.