Prescott College www.prescott.edu

Prescott College highlights the dramatic educational return on investment when experience is at the center of learning. Tucked into a corner of the Arizona town of the same name, Prescott College is a liberal arts school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. That dry description tells you nothing about what really is, however an evolving experiment in rejecting hierarchical thinking for collaboration and teamwork as the cornerstone of learning.

Prescott College offers a resident Bachelor of Arts program as well as limited-residency, community-based Bachelor of Arts , Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy programs for students living and working around the world.  Narrative evaluations. No barriers.  Project-based interdisciplinary study. Custom-designed programs for each student. No summa or magna or best in show ribbons. Just a peripatetic community of lively intellects and fearless explorers whose connecting threads are a passion for social justice and the environment and a keen sense of adventure.

In 1965 the Ford Foundation challenged the country's most innovative educators to come together and design an ideal college for the future that would prepare students for contributing in an ever changing, and ever faster moving, world. Prescott College is the result. Since its opening in 1966, more than 9,000 students have enjoyed its highly individual philosophy of higher education with its mandate to incorporate experiential learning into every course.

This is an educational institution that puts students at the center in everything it does and is. Imagine what intellectual fireworks can happen when quirky and eclectic minds are given the green light at every turn!

CIEL Campus Coordinator:

Paul Burkhardt, Dean of Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
pburkhardt@prescott.edu