Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
The architecture behind a private system nobody has actually finished building yet.
Picture a student who started at an environmental science college in Maine, fell in love with someone in Arizona, and had to choose between the relationship and the degree. That choice should not exist. It exists today because much of traditional higher education built itself around buildings instead of people, and the moment a person’s life moves, the institution treats that movement as a betrayal rather than a normal fact of being human. IPEDS then punishes the school as an attrition issue even though the learner might go on to graduate somewhere else.
The learner does not need a new college. They need the a system to simply exist in more than one place, with their credits intact, their advisor reachable, and their diploma unchanged. That is the entire reason higher education exists in the first place, to widen what is possible for a person’s life, not to anchor them to a zip code. Almost nothing being built across the sector right now actually solves for that. Unity intends to.
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