About

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 nearly one-thousand years of higher education.  Blackboards replaced by white-boards and projectors. Pencils and typewriters for buttons and electronic documents. 

Staying in the same place for four years.  Even with the advent of long distance travel, and world wide instantaneous communication capabilities. 

Too much weight given to content learning versus skills based strategies.

The college, is actually one boutique cohort at a time - synchronous learning for 64 candidates towards a specific degree.

Be Amazing. Do 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.

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. 

The college long-term vision includes special projects working towards national aims.  The projects - Tuition Tribe, The Second Order, and The Learning Hostel, are future endeavors of the MAC.

I would not prescribe a definitive vision as that would limit our imagination. 

The founder earned a Masters of Higher Education Administration degree.  When it became very clear, during the course work,  the amount of defects and/or limitations in post-secondary education - well that's why the MAC.

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 And our lack of history means we are not beholden to outdated philosophies, the desperate stranglehold of bureaucracy, or as you have learned – time and space.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 - my official title will be Chief Dreaming Officer.

I am a “jack-of-all, master of none”. I do not have a storied history of post-secondary involvement (although i did attend colleges in my teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s), rather a long list of disparate jobs and endeavors - and I take great solace that in an interview with Steve Jobs (paraphrasing), he said he wished he had hired more Liberal Arts centered employees for their ability to see the complexity and connectivity of life.

I have an alphabet soup of mental issues. At times these issues can operate as a blessing for my endeavors, a complete escapism from this time and place - to dream bigger and better - to dream the MAC: The Most Amazing College. 

Most importantly, I hold the vision and ambition to catapult our institution to the top of lists judging colleges and universities.