About – Jubilee College

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“Since the Enlightenment, liberal arts education has aimed to equip citizens to be free people in a free society. But it has become too individualistic, preparing students for a ‘real world’ that connects them to an economic and financial system with incentives geared to individual gain. It is all too often materialist, strictly secular, and foreseeing a world as it will not be. Humans are increasingly aware of our interconnected world, and this requires us to develop capacities that are not sufficiently addressed in higher education today. We are on the threshold of what is next.” ~ Srinija Srinivasan, cofounder, Jubilee College; former Stanford University Trustee

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The Students We Seek

The inaugural Jubilee College class of 28 students will begin in September 2026.

We are preparing to host students from radically diverse backgrounds, connected by their shared curiosity and a desire to learn. Through a curriculum and pedagogical approach designed to see beyond the status quo, to cultivate compassionate hearts, and to grow an intuitive capacity to create with, and for, all of life — students are invited to discover and develop their own gifts while imagining new futures!

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Prepared to Create New Futures

Jubilee College graduates who plan to enter fields like law or medicine can go on to complete a four-year degree at a top university. We also encourage, and prepare, students to go directly into their service work after graduation. We believe there is so much to be done to address today’s challenges, and that now is the time to walk new paths with imagination and creativity. For millennia, it was a proven pathway for young people to pursue an apprenticeship with a master artisan, tradesperson, or spiritual teacher. We are bringing back the formal apprenticeship and applying it to all disciplines. Students have the opportunity to be matched with mentors who are top leaders in their fields through a unique placement program customized to student gifts. Ranging from land restoration to regional food systems, from community organizing, to healthcare, resettling migrant refugees, emergent technologies, the arts, B Corps to regenerative finance– students are matched with leaders who are vigorously challenging the status quo and re-imagining their fields to meet this time on earth.

In addition, students have opportunities to get involved in, and to learn directly from, the people and work of the Jubilee College Institute for Applied Learning.

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED LEARNING

Fellowship Opportunities

We are currently seeking College Fellows to assist in the creation of Jubilee College.

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Jubilee College is a two-year institute of deep-service learning, offering an associate degree in liberal arts with three pedagogical modalities: physical work, rigorous study, and contemplative practice.

The inaugural Jubilee College class of ~28 students will begin in September 2026. Admissions are highly selective, based on a desire to bring together the most motivated, capable, and creative young people who share an interest in this learning journey. Tuition and lodging will be free for most students, and those with families that can contribute are encouraged to do so.

Students learn to become critical and creative thinkers, immersed in two place-based, interdisciplinary learning modules: Sacred Waters & Emerging Technologies. This is a fundamentally place-based educational environment, inspired by the lessons that the land and its inhabitants show us, stretching from the Earth wisdom of Mount Shasta’s sacred headwater springs, along the Sacramento River, and into the San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley: the center of the world’s leadership in creating the technologies radically impacting life on this planet. These inquiries are also fundamental to this moment in time and how we are to live on Earth.

The Students We Seek

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Prepared to Create New Futures

Graduates who plan to enter fields like law or medicine can go on to complete a four-year degree at a top university, in the model of Deep Springs College. We also encourage, and prepare, Jubilee College students to go directly into their service work after graduation, in the model of Swaraj University. For millennia, it was a proven path for young people to pursue an apprenticeship with a master artisan, tradesperson, or spiritual teacher. We are bringing back the formal apprenticeship and applying it to all disciplines. Students have the opportunity to be matched with mentors who are top leaders in their fields through a unique placement program customized to student gifts. Ranging from land restoration to community organizing, healthcare to resettling migrant refugees, emerging technologies to the arts, B Corps to regenerative finance– students are matched with leaders who are vigorously challenging the status quo and re-imagining their fields to meet this time on Earth.

We believe there is so much to be done to address today’s challenges and that finding new paths with experimentation and creativity is called for, now.

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Preparing Ourselves

The vast majority of colleges and universities have become hyper-secular. Very little is offered that explores the sacred. The foundation of Jubilee College, however, rests on the idea that all of us are spiritual beings. With visiting faculty from various traditions, students are exposed to contemplative practices, texts, and the work of inner development. Through work, study, and practice, we prepare ourselves to meet a changing world, grounded in compassion, clear intuition, and humility.