Our academically rigorous, community-engaged curriculum bridges the gap between theory and practice, allowing students to apply their learning directly to their local communities and contexts.

This is achieved through:

• Distance-delivered Synchronous Education — live-online from a global knowledge base, combating out migration by engaging students who remain in their own communities and complete applied coursework where they live.
• Community Labs —  projects in collaboration with community members to understand and improve the world and build lasting, local-to-global approaches to change.
• Immersive, Place-Based Field Courses — Exposure to geo-centered community development practices in different parts of the world provides students the opportunity to broaden their perspectives, learn from diverse communities, and adapt context-appropriate strategies into their local work. They build a world-circling network of peers and mentors to support their ongoing scholarship through the completion of their degree, and beyond.