Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
Higher education is not broken because we lack solutions. It is broken because we protect systems that no longer serve learners. We defend them through governance models designed for delay, through credential structures established for exclusivity, and through consulting firms that monetize complexity rather than solving it.
Over the past decade, Unity Environmental University has done what most higher education institutions only talk about. We flattened tuition through 2030. We scaled our enrollment from 559 students to over 10,000. We delivered outcomes-based learning to working adults, traditional students, and underserved populations without compromising academic quality or regulatory compliance. We became the number one private university in the nation for social mobility.
We did all of this without a capital campaign or a billion-dollar endowment. We did it by rejecting legacy models and rebuilding the institution from the ground up.
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