Because it’s time for a change! The US system of higher education is a rigid,
overpriced, bureaucratic cartel which serves itself rather than students.
The American system of higher education is monopolistic, where government
excludes competition, and is indifferent to the results produced as long as
taxpayer money continues to flow into the system.
Our goal is to change the current system to allow for Freedom of Choice
in Education! There is no justification for the cost of higher education in
this country. The availability of easy federal education loans encourages
a monopolistic system to exist that resists competition and innovation.
Government programs are never efficient because they exist for political
reasons not for authentic purposes. Higher education in the US is another
government program that is overpriced and under performs because
the incentives are misplaced.
What’s Different About The Graduate University of America, New
School of Positive Psychology?
We provide a system of study which focuses only on the student. Our
degree and board certification programs were designed for adults rather
than teenagers. Our students have real world experience and possess
significant levels of knowledge acquired through training and experience.
The quality of education received depends on the quality of the effort
made by the student and the quality of the material studied. It is a myth
that one receives a better education at Harvard or some other Ivy League
school, or any traditional college or university, merely by being present
at a particular institution. Learning is something that the student achieves
not that which happens with their presence at an Ivy League school.
United Kingdom, Distance Learning, Oxford and Cambridge
The United Kingdom has been the world leader in distance learning for
centuries. Distance learning degrees have the same prestige as
residential degrees. As a former colonial power. England’s distance
learning degrees were the engine of education for the rest of the world.
Their system persists and flourishes to this day.
The Failure of American Higher Education
Unfortunately, in the United States, because of a failure to allow for
freedom of choice in educational opportunity, some people believe
that real education cannot take place unless one is sitting in a
classroom.
That’s not where learning occurs. It occurs in the mind of the
student and can be achieved without ever stepping foot in a
classroom. Traditional colleges, universities, and tenured
professors resist innovation because it threatens them; they
don’t want change, they only serve themselves, and resist
competition. It has nothing to do with learning excellence!
Oxford, Cambridge and other outstanding British universities
operate according to a belief in the preeminence of the student
and promote tutoring, research, and distance learning as valid
and important methods which favor the student.
The US system serves itself to the detriment of the student as it
is driven by money and a maintaining the status quo.
The following quote from Abraham Lincoln writing to a young
friend wanting to study the law makes the point rather profoundly
as to what it takes to learn, and it has nothing to do with the
institution:
“If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the
thing is more than half done already. It is a small matter whether
you read with any one or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the
books and read and study them in their every feature, and that is
the main thing. It is no consequence to be in large town while you
are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred
people in it. The books and your capacity for understanding them
are just the same in all places. (…) Always bear in mind that your
own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other thing.”