More and more schools today are applying a freer style of education when even young grade school students actually experience the lesson and are able to participate fully. So in the aspect of unrestrictive learning, all we see, touch and do becomes a learning experience. Earth becomes our campus and life is the instructor. This experience and knowledge, which formerly had been ruled out as applicable towards credit for required knowledge now becomes useful. If one knows the material, it can be applied. We have embraced this concept of education and have designed our program to include the following
aspects: new ways of learning, new relationships between method of instruction & student, new timeframes, new criteria for evaluation, new kinds of instruction and the opportunity for
students to design programs especially suited to their objectives. As an example: The possibility of utilizing a far broader range of educational resources that can be found on any single college campus, the opportunity to be appraised on the basis of individual progress rather than by years attended, the opportunity to make a contribution of outstanding excellence in research or scholarship or other areas in a variety of forms, the opportunity to receive full credit for life experiences which can include academic credit already earned – job-related training, employment experience and responsibilities, trade and technical school,
correspondence schools, military service and schooling, civic, fraternal and political membership and participation. Independent reading and study.

 

Our program has been designed to give the student much greater flexibility and creativity in completing
their degree requirement.