Not just excellent — extraordinary. At Brenau, this is education: Using your language skills to translate scientific research from a foreign language to complete a biology experiment; learning dance by participating and performing with a professional company; researching zoology, speaking Spanish and studying Mayan culture deep in the Yucatan forest.
Such experiences make life extraordinary.
And such is living and learning at Brenau, where education has the power to change lives. “Brenau University has shown me how things connect,” says one student. “And in those connections, I discovered how I could succeed.”
Brenau University challenges students to live extraordinary lives of personal and professional fulfillment. As students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees or non-degree programs at Brenau campuses and online, each prepares for a lifetime of intellectual accomplishment and appreciation of artistic expression through a curriculum enriched by the liberal arts, scientific inquiry and global awareness.
Worldwide knowledge doubles every five years, translating into the need to provide some form of education enhancement to three-quarters of the American work force every five years. For society to benefit from this wellspring of knowledge, educated and adept people must translate “knowledge” into useable protocols and social wisdom. In the past an individual might change jobs or careers one or two times in their employment lives. Because of myriad social and economic factors in today’s world, individuals now change jobs and even career paths, as many as 10 times before they retire.
Brenau’s strategy takes all this into consideration, but it does not stop there. The university recognizes that learning at its best and most valuable goes far beyond the simple accumulation of raw, cold facts and professional skills. Such a limited focus often results in an educational experience that lacks appreciation of personal accountability for the social good, artistic expression and the living of an ethical life.
It is urgent that America’s academic institutions construct an educational process that includes the best of a classical liberal arts and professional or career preparedness.
Through its BRENAU 2025 vision, the university addresses these critical elements for personal and professional fulfillment through an innovative curriculum that uniquely blends a rich and creative liberal arts core with extraordinary programs for professional preparedness.
Integral in such a program is the mastery of digital communications and data utilization. This innovative curriculum infuses all programs at undergraduate and graduate levels; this makes implementing the BRENAU 2025 vision all the more challenging because of demands by students and prospective employers for people to complete better educations in less time than that required in older models.
Creating and maintaining such a comprehensive curriculum is not easy. It demands extraordinary commitment by faculty, staff and students.
Brenau believes that the outcomes in changed lives and, ultimately, a changed world justify the investment of the extensive financial and intellectual capital. Through accelerated degree programs and enhanced learning, Brenau plans to expose all of its students to its pioneering new curriculum that not only will educate them for a profession but also will prepare them for citizenship in a complex global society.