Campus life at Jubilee College is, in the truest sense, an immersive Head-Hands-Heart experience.
The boundaries between living and working, between personal growth and program responsibility, are intentionally porous. The entirety of community-based life at Jubilee — the work, the study, the inner development, the shared meals, the land — is itself understood as the body of the curriculum. In this way, students are invited to “unlearn”, and to freshly engage in a rigorous way with knowledge that arises from interdependence, (self as part of the whole).
When facing the big introspective questions – Who am I? What is expected of me? How can I make a meaningful contribution? – students are supported in finding their true “inner light”. They develop reliable ways to listen for those sometimes-faint intuitive signals from the heart, to recognize their unique gifts, and then to act skillfully on what they are sensing.
During their second year, students receive guidance and preparation for entry into one of the most distinctive post-graduation pathways in American education: the Jubilee apprenticeship program.
“The present education system has not been able to adapt to the fast-changing social, economic, cultural and political transformation. Moreover, growing threats to our ecology, disruption of local communities and the rise of global consumerism have made it necessary to question many of the basic assumptions that have shaped the modern world. Today, we are left with a worldview of society as a great machine whose purpose is to extract and convert natural and human resources into commodities for concentrated profits. … With such complex situations facing our world today we need a new kind of youth leadership and a radical way of learning!”
~ Swaraj University, India