New Kind of College (Rhode Island)

A New Kind Of College Wins State Approval In Rhode Island (+Video)

Anya Kamenetz | May 27, 2015

...College Unbound is the creation of education innovator Dennis Littky, who built it on this principle: Treat students from nontraditional backgrounds to the kind of special, individualized attention found in the most elite educational settings. Allow their own passions and interests to be paramount. Help them craft their own path to a degree.

Source: http://www.collegeunbound.org/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=83176

<more at http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/05/27/408793531/a-new-kind-of-college-wins-state-approval-in-rhode-island; related link: http://www.collegeunbound.org/ (SPOTLIGHT: Our mission is to reinvent higher education for underrepresented returning adult learners, using a model that is individualized, interest-based, project-driven, workplace-enhanced, cohort-supported, flexible, supportive, and affordable. College Unbound integrates the students’ own purposes for learning with the needs of their workplaces and communities, improving the lives of the students and the lives of those they touch. As a degree completion college, College Unbound provides access, support through completion, and career placement, ensuring that students get in, stay in, and move forward.)>