Our intentionally designed school aims to provide an optimum college experience. From academics to free-time, we keep questioning the historical beliefs and practices.
Not much has changed in over a thousand years of higher education. Blackboards replaced by projectors. Pencils and typewriters for buttons and electronic documents. Staying in the same place for four years. Too much weight given to content learning versus skills based strategies.
Be Amazing. Graduate Amazing. Kaizen.
A good mission statement should be elaborately concise – on top of mind and tip of tongue. Any need to explain it at length clouds or distorts the ability to live it on a daily basis.
What do you think it takes to make a school Amazing?
What do you think it takes to graduate Amazing students?
And for those that don’t want to look it up – Kaizen is a Japanese corporate philosophy of “continuous improvement”.
Our mission isn’t just a statement for employees or students – it is a challenge to live up to.
This is the beginning. There is no ending. Only onward and upward.
The vision that matters most, is the vision to see each active cohort live up to the challenge.
Our program is intelligently designed, and I can see it getting better even as the cohorts progress.
Immediately and progressively we will institute different internal ongoing internships, that we have labeled “const-ernship”. Tuition Tribe a joint venture with corporations to conduct research for business, post-secondary research, and helping to make the tuition debt crisis just a little easier for individuals. The Second Order is a program that our institution will share with other colleges to help their students with mental health and peak performance. The Learning Hostel, a network of hostels used for the cohorts to reduce long-term costs, provide affordable travel for students outside our institution to enhance their learning journey, and provide work experience for our different degrees.
The start will seem like a practice of privilege and wealth, however that is not the end aim of the school. We aim to have a higher percentage of full scholarship candidates than other schools, and a decline in costs year over year for members of any given cohort. Additionally, it is the dream to institute the most comprehensive and affordable Associates degree in the future.
I would not prescribe a definitive vision as that would limit our imagination.
The founder was a student in a Masters of Higher Education Administration, when it became very clear the amount of defects or limitations in post-secondary education.
Many of our components and strategies will make history. But you can’t make history without evolving from it. And our lack of history means we are not beholden to outdated philosophies, the desperate stranglehold of bureaucracy, or as you have learned – time and space.
We don’t have what other schools have when it comes to history, but at least we are not stuck in history.
My name is Jeffrey Capen. I am the Founder, President, and Chair of the Board of Directors. Inevitably, I will appoint a more capable person for Chief Operations Officer, however I will hold the final say as Chief Dreaming Officer. You can call me Jeff, coach, Capen, half-caf, Cap, but don’t call me late for dessert.
I am a “jack-of-all, master of none”. I do not have a storied history of post-secondary involvement, rather a long list of disparate jobs and endeavors.
I have an alphabet soup of mental issues. At times these issues can operate as a blessing for my endeavors, but as you know it makes for great challenges other times.
Most importantly, I hold the vision and ambition to catapult our institution to the top of most lists judging colleges and universities.
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