H O U LT O N I N S T I T U T E

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Quick Overview

high-quality online education for those interested in social good mission-driven, social enterprise with offices in san francisco + new york

partner with innovative nonprofits to create unique courses for adult learners

Social Good + Social Innovation

Houlton seeks to promote and accelerate social good in the world by fostering an educational environment in which knowledgeable organizations, experts and scholars, and passionate learners comprise an effective reciprocal community. We create partnerships between progressive organizations and institutions, and a community of learners. Houltons partners and non-profits receive a portion of the tuition fees for each course. Partnering institutions, in turn, are able to develop broader or new programs that help more people.

Quality + Inclusion
Houlton has instituted high standards for its programming and, partnerships. Similarly. Houlton does not provide a quick and easy credential. Learners receive rigorous training to receive the skills they need to create effective change and to become experts. Houlton embraces diversity and inclusion as an institutional priority, an epistemological ethos, and as a part of its commitment to promote and accelerate social good. This commitment is reflected in its policies, ethics, educational content and practices.

Accountability + Assessment
In order to support its mission, Houlton is committed to an ethos of assessment and accountability. This ethos is manifested institutionally and pedagogically. Houlton encourages assessment both formative and summative at all levels in order to empower competent professionals and to help refine and redirect educational priorities.

{Programs at Houlton actually do make a difference}

Not only does Houlton contribute back to non-profits, Houlton will begin a program in 2012 where Houlton will user portion of every learners tuition to fund scholarships in developing countries.

{But, where does Houlton come from?}

> Houltons Founding Houlton Institute was founded in Princeton, New Jersey and was fully realized in Silicon Valley. Its founders wanted to create a new model in online education one that was innovative, mission-minded, and which proved that an online medium could indeed deliver a high quality education. Thus, Houltons represents the merging of a history of American innovation in education with new technologies, methods and solutions to meet the needs of a changing global society.

> The Name In 1848, some committed citizens of Houlton, Maine tried to create a school based on a provocative idea: a progressive and rigorous school which also emphasized a conscience. The idea emerged at a critical moment in American History. Though several iterations emerged, the school never survived. We believe that they were on to something

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