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At the School of Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for licensed professionals, many of whom hold graduate or undergraduate degrees. Within this niche, the University offers person-centered graduate education. Simultaneously unlicensed individuals may matriculate in courses of study they design for their personal edification. For more on the School of Continuing Education click here or on a button at the bottom of links as you proceed.

For further information or to design a special course of study, contact us at: info@amiu.edu

About Our Graduate School & Research Centers

AMIU offers person-centered graduate education, providing scholars with opportunities to earn a degree through diverse learning methods. We recognize that acquiring knowledge is not limited by time needed to learn, age, or a personal national or geographic location. Individuals must complete a person-centered degree plan and they can satisfy their educational goals all without leaving their home or work. We concur scholars are challenged to master the learning demanded by the career field of their choice.

AMIU's founders began offering distance education in 1983. Continuing education courses were first offered to US professionals in 1981 and to Latin American professionals in 1995. Our Graduate School offers state of the art distance learning methods using advanced communication technologies and an educational delivery system that follow practices developed by Ivy League University educators who began the US distance learning movement in the early 1960s.

AMIU formally incorporated in Indiana in 1997. University affiliated professionals expanded to Latin American promptly based on market analysis and educational needs assessments; and an East Asia Extension was attempted. The educational delivery system of the AMIU School of Continuing Education is based on practical course by course methods developed in house starting in the early 1980s.

By employing distance-learning methods, highly motivated and self-directed learners may pursue and complete a master’s, Ph.D. or post-doctoral degree from any part of the world. Neither AMIU degree candidates nor faculty are campus-bound. This means creative AMIU scholars may pursue challenging research opportunities and/or graduate degrees supervised by an intellectually challenging faculty and mentors. Each student must select competent professionals from his or her chosen field of study; these may come from any part of the world rather than be limited by a faculty of a single university or work setting.

There are three primary criteria for admission to the Graduate School.

1. Evidence of motivation to work toward a graduate or post-graduate degree;

2. Evidence of ability to do graduate work;

3. Evidence of ability to become a self-directed learner.

We are pleased to observe renown US professionals have attended distance-learning institutions before they became accredited by a regional association. In that regard we constantly pursue self studies designed to strengthen Socratic and Confucian learning experiences we offer. These actions are taken from the premises of a progressive religious institution focused on the economical challenges that our scholars face.

General Presumptions We Uphold:

Distance learning is our means for sharing a vision and meeting educational needs worldwide. Conscientious learners and researchers of stature conduct research and may earn an advanced degree; as such we recognize credible learning experiences. But the Board of Trustees upholds an oath to deny privileges to any charlatan holding themselves out as a University rep.

We apply a non-traditional learning model, which was first launched by learned US professionals in 1964, and similar to the Open University of London. Renowned leaders who developed today's distance education are described by Roy Fairfield (1977) in his book Person-Centered Graduate Education. Those educators were inspired by the wisdom of Socrates and Confucius who centuries ago espoused learning from non-traditional fountains of knowledge that have had an immense affects on our world. They certainly did not do this at institutions accredited in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe or East Asia. Yet noted historical contributions arising there from had lasting implications for the past, the present and the future. As we close 2006, distance education has exploded in North America and Europe all because of the high costs and high needs, but few universities reach out to answer the vast needs of third world where learned persons among the impoverished have higher demands and even greater limitations than any affluent nations do. We are especially open to scholars from the third world who work mentors to grow degree plans and graduate committee persons whom they select. Our School of Continuing Education is tied to an Approved Continuing Education Sponsor.

In response to this call, the University brings with it a non-governmental organization (NGO) - the Dialogue-Producing Consortium (founded in 1977 http://dialoguemakers.org). This NGO holds foundation status and we hope one day it may be feasible for learners and researchers to dream and realize answers to their dreams, i.e., to gain grants or stipends, and be duly recognized for making defensible original contributions to a duly respected field of study that they choose with the assistance they did not have before registering with this University.

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