The Student Loan Crisis

No time to write this week, but I did want to share with you a revealing video from FEE,

The Foundation for Economic Education.

Click Here for Video

At Monticello College we are working to bring the price of college tuition down and quality of college education up.

Here are the tuition rates and the first year curriculum at Monticello College:

Annual Tuition Schedule

On Campus (2013) Online Hybrid
Tuition $3,000 $3,000
Residency (Board and Room) $3,500 $ 800
Books $ 500 $ 500
Total $7,000 $4,300

 

Monticello College

First Year Curriculum – Domestic Interests

Semester One

Great Books Seminar

Plato:                                 Republic

Aristophanes:                  Clouds

Aristotle:                          Ethics

Plutarch:                          The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Machiavelli:                     The Prince*

Locke:                               Concerning Civil Government *

Marx-Engels:                   Manifesto of the Communist Party *

Syntopicon:                     Multiple Topics

Leadership Block

DeMille:                        Thomas Jefferson Education *

Gladwell:                        The Tipping Point *

Pink:                               A Whole New Mind*

Government/American History/Cultural Literacy Seminar

Skousen:                        The 5,000 Year Leap*

Bastiat:                           The Law *

Adams:                           Thoughts on Government*

Madison et al:               The Federalist Papers

Kirk:                               Roots of American Order

Skousen:                        The Making of America

The Holy Bible:            Deuteronomy*

Wister:                          The Virginian *

Forstchen:                    One Second After*

Chang:                           Wild Swans *

Shakespeare:                Merchant of Venice – Reader’s Theater 1 (Residency)                                   

Founding Documents

Hammurabi Code

Ten Commandments

Magna Charta

Mayflower Compact

The Declaration of Independence

The U.S. Constitution

1791 Jefferson on National Bank

1791 Hamilton on National Bank

Simulation

Up to 5 Simulation events

Foreign Language Block

Latin I

Mathematics/Science Seminar

The History of Mathematics, compiled

The History of Science, compiled

Grant:                              Summalogica                                               

Schneider:                      A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe*            

Nicomachus:                  Introduction to Arithmetic                                               

Testing for Level

Writing Lab

3-day event

First Year Curriculum – Domestic Interests

Semester Two

Great Books Seminar

Plato:                               Republic

Aristotle:                        On the Heavens

Plutarch:                        The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Authors.:                        New Testament, St. Matthew*

Luke:                               New Testament, Acts of the Apostles *

Montaigne:                     Essays

Locke:                              Concerning Civil Government *

Gibbon:                            The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Locke:                              Concerning Civil Government *

Syntopicon:                     Multiple Topics

Leadership Block

Gladwell:                          Outliers*

DeMille & Brooks:         Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens *

Lansing:                          Endurance *

Government/American History/Culture Literacy Seminar

Allison:                           The Real George Washington *

Allison:                           The Real Benjamin Franklin *

Tocqueville:                   Democracy in America Vol. 2

Biography on Davy Crockett

Orwell:                          1984*

Douglas:                        Magnificent Obsession *

Bunyan:                         Pilgrim’s Progress *

Shakespeare:               Hamlet – Reader’s Theater 2 (Residency)

Johnson:                       History of the American People *

Documents of State: 

1796 Washington’s Farewell Address

1820 Missouri Compromise

1823 Monroe Doctrine

1850 Calhoun & Webster Compromise

1860 Cooper Union Address

1863 Gettysburg Address

1944 A New Bill of Rights

1945 Yalta Agreement

1947 The X Article

1983 Evil Empire Speech

Mathematics/Science Seminar

Applied Classics lab (Residency)

The Two New Sciences, Galileo

An Introduction to Mathematics, Whitehead

Geometry

Simulation

Up to 5 Simulation events

Wilderness

Trek I (Residency)

Arts Block

Art History

Vasari:                           The Lives of the Artists

Sobel:                            Galileo’s Daughter

Stone:                            The Agony and the Ecstasy

Music History

Copland & Slatkin:     What to Listen for in Music

Smith & Carlson:        The Gift of Music

Kavanaugh:                  Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

Architecture

Ballantyne:                  Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Foreign Language Block

Hebrew I

*Book/article read in its entirety.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

4 Responses

  1. I’d recommend Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank instead of One Second After by Forstchen. I really enjoyed Alas, Babylon, so I thought I would enjoy One Second After, but there was too much swearing in it. That kind of language is distracting and unnecessary.

    1. I enjoyed them both. I found over time that with such a personal scenario, most people relate better to One Second After as it is more current.

    1. Same text, but the IGB is just a sampling. The BA degree requires about 30 hours a week of study.

Krislyn Elliott & Lauren Swanepoel

Krislyn Elliott and Lauren Swanepoel act more like sisters than moms as they take really slow walks through the woods together, looking at and taking pictures of every plant they see & wishing they could remember their names and uses more thoroughly. They also like concocting herbal teas, salves, tinctures and strange drinks.

Krislyn is from Utah and has loved learning about plants since an unusually cool high school biology teacher took his classes on neighborhood botany walks. She has always been fascinated and constantly amazed at the power and beauty of plants.

Lauren is from South Africa, she and her family emigrated to Utah almost 10 years ago. They have fallen in love with the area and know more about this state & the great places to explore here than most Utah natives.

We both feel strongly about taking care of our families with natural methods and the abundant medicine we have growing right around us. We are trying to learn as much as we can about our magical local plants and are looking forward to sharing some of our favorites with you.

William DeMille

Director of Georgic Develeopment

William DeMille is a lifelong vegetable farmer. He studied Horticulture and Agronomy at Northwest Missouri University, Maryville. He holds a certificate in aquaponic engineering and production from Cornell University, NY, and another from GrowHaus Aquaponics in Denver, CO. He also studied soil regeneration and is a graduate of Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web School. He is the Director of Georgic Development for The Center for American Legacy Studies.

William is a farm consultant establishing several agricultural startups since 2005 in Missouri, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada and he currently manages 2500 acres of grassland for the Ruby Mountain Foods Company.

His latest venture is a market gardening school called Georgic Revolution where he teaches a 17-week course onsite in Nevada covering soil health and vegetable production without the use of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. and where he operated a soil lab.

William lives with his wife Vernie in the snow capped mountains of Northern Nevada.

Lloyd Nelson

World Renown BD Expert

Lloyd Nelson has been practicing the art of Biodynamic (BD) Agriculture for over twenty years. He is a BD preparation maker, builder, artist, farmer, arborist, BD educator & consultant. He is co-founder of Biodynamic Source – a Colorado based non-profit specializing in high potency BD preparations – and he owns and operates a Biodynamic spray, fertilizer and consultation service. He has worked with small and large scale farms, vineyards, and orchards to transition to sustainable Biodynamic land management and Demeter BD Certification.

Vern Cox, PhD

Educator

Vern Cox is married to Joyce Christensen and they have 8 children. He has 3 earned degrees, a BA in psychology, and both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy.

He has had a diverse and interesting career that started with the Bureau of Land Management, followed by a stint as a Learning Disabilities teacher, and finally a marriage and family therapist, working his way up to executive director of the High Country Counseling and Resource Centers that served two counties in Wyoming.

Dr. Cox served for several years on the board of a charter school. Dr. Cox remains heavily involved in his community and the home schooling movement.

He has extensive background in marriage and family counseling, having held a number of administrative positions during his first career. He holds a BA in Psychology and both a Masters and PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy. He lives with his wife and several married children on their multi-generation farm in Southern Utah.

Joseph Lofthouse

Educator

Joseph adopted the principles of landrace gardening in response to the harsh growing conditions in a high-altitude, short-season, desert garden. Instead of relying on expensive poisons, labor, and materials to coddle the plants, he encourages genetic diversity, cross-pollination, and survival of the fittest, allowing the plants to adapt themselves to the current and ever-changing ecosystem, thus simplifying gardening and seed saving. Joseph is the author of Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination. Joseph loves eating, farming, swimming, hot-springs, sunbathing, bird-watching, running, yoga, leggings, kilts, playing guitar, singing, and living habitually barefoot.

Dan Brooks

Educator

Dan Brooks was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. During his first career, he spent 20 years working in and managing high-end restaurants and golf courses including extensive banquet/special events services and ice sculptures.

For the past 23 years, Dan has been a successful entrepreneur and family business owner in Las Vegas. He and his wife have 4 children and 11 grandchildren. He serves as a trustee for The Center for American Legacy Studies.

Shanon Brooks, PhD

Director

Shanon Brooks is the director of The Center for American Legacy Studies, an institution dedicated to helping families embrace and incorporate the Five American Ideals; Georgics, Liber, Providence, Public Virtue, and Liberty into their lives and communities. America exists because of Americans. Americans are the beneficiaries of a peculiar culture and way of living.

Over the past 75 years, that culture and way of life have been lost. Restore that culture and Americans will rebuild America to once again be worthy of John Winthrop’s 1630 admonition, “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”

Brooks has been a leader in alternative higher education for over 30 years, and is the author of two books: AMERICAN: Killing the American Dream and A Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens.

Dr. Brooks is a veteran of military service in the United States Submarine Fleet and holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, a Master’s degree in education, and a Ph.D. in constitutional law.

He and his wife Julia reside on the 80-acre conference facility of The Center for American Legacy Studies.