Founded in 1999, we are the first rural and only independent affiliate of The Clemente Course in the Humanities®, a unique educational institution to teach the humanities at the college level to people living in economic distress. Students learn through dialogue about moral philosophy, literature, history, art history, critical thinking, and writing. More than ten thousand students worldwide have participated in a Clemente course and the enrichment of so many lives earned the course the 2014 National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The course is based on the belief that anyone, if given the opportunity and support, can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to enrich and transform his or her life.