Welcome to Blackwell Global University. We are a global community of students, professors, administrative staff, friends, and supporters united by an ambitious, multifaceted mission. In brief, that mission is to develop and teach elements practical knowledge to aspiring students across the US and around the world, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In so doing, we strive to prepare our students to apply this knowledge so that they can create value for themselves, their families, their organizations, and their societies.

We create learning environments – both in-person and online – which are student-centered, flexible, and accessible, and which deliver high-quality, genuine learning that leads to employment in one’s chosen field. These are big words often mentioned in relation to what higher education should be, but at Blackwell they have very real meanings. Student-centered means that our students and graduates are our primary product, our main concern, and the focus of everything we do, including research and the development of new teachable knowledge. Flexibility and accessibility describe our efforts to deliver effective learning experiences by deploying cutting-edge distance education alternatives and by giving students access to all of the learning resources we can assemble, no matter where the student resides.

The most important aspect of Blackwell’s mission, however, is imparting high-quality learning that prepares our students for work and life. Like many universities, we use some of the more easily acquired measures, such as test scores and grades, graduation rates, and rates of employment after graduation. But we believe that such measures allow much that is of value to fall through the cracks. Test and grades generally measure learning clearly defined elements of knowledge that are held to be true, or learning that a certain highly specified task should be done in a certain way. Blackwell goes beyond this by focusing on teaching our students how to deal with crucial situations that may not be so neatly packaged: how to gather and organize information, how to make rational decisions under conditions of uncertainty, how to improve productive processes, how to innovate when old solutions won’t do, how to negotiate effectively, and, in general, how to lead others to achieve common goals. In short, we teach the skills that our students need not only to “be employed”, but to thrive in the modern workplace.

Returning to where we began, what does “community” mean? There is no better expression of community than the final sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor”. That model endures. At Blackwell we work hard to forge a mutual commitment to our mission and to the success every member of our community.

I hope you will explore what Blackwell has to offer.

With best wishes,