Causes: Education, Graduate & Professional Schools
Mission: The founding mission of Akamai University is founded upon the premise that amelioration of major world problems and the creation of sustainable lifestyles and global practices are the hallmarks of responsible individual and corporate world citizenship. As generators of new knowledge and developers of new systems, our sole mission as an institution is the advancement of the human condition and sustainability of the planet. The primary academic mission of the University is to provide mature adults with the opportunity to pursue life-long learning in an environment that supports flexible and individualized studies. Akamai University is committed to the design and use of appropriate cutting edge information, models, textual materials, and technological applications for delivery of quality degree programs, research, training, and distance-learning experiences. Akamai University understands and supports the need for research on all fronts of the human experience, from the arts and humanities, religious and spiritual arenas of ideas, to the concrete world of hard political and business decisions. The scope of research should reach from the realm of public health and disease control to the recognition of the whole person in the healing process and from the study of the depth of human psyche to the community as an incubator of social and psychological health. Our research scope also spans the essential areas of environmental and life science. Through quality in research, Akamai hopes to encourage the development of new systems addressing the need for each world citizen to acquire the knowledge and empowerment to foster change in their world. Akamai’s research mission and philosophy is to create and organize new knowledge and systems toward the amelioration of major world problems, improvement of the human community, and sustainability of our planet. he Akamai University mission for community service is to strive for a world filled with greater peace, balance, cooperation, and the promise of an evolved human fellowship. These are noble foundation stones upon which to establish the fundamentals of sustainable human culture. They are spiritual principles that demand a worthy mission, and although the tasks and goals before us seem immense, they are attainable with adequate understanding of the problems and solutions, and the full commitment and participation of the global community. While this is no small aspiration, the mission for community service is derived directly and in support of the founding mission of the institution.
Results: Akamai now has more than 3,000 alumni and 25 affiliated schools with whom we carry out collaborative educational activities , training, colloquium, quality assurance ventures, and research. Our students are residents of forty-six nations, including USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Macedonia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Lebanon, Australia, New Zealand, Gabon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Chad, Central Africa, Malia, Liberia, and Senegal.
Target demographics: with the betterment of the human condition and sustainability of the planet
Direct beneficiaries per year: 250 adult students and seven affiliated schools
Geographic areas served: across the international community by cross-border programs and guided distance education.
Programs: Education and training for leaders, journal and research ventures and community service projects in the areas of business and economic development, education and literacy, environmental and ecological studies, health and wellness, complementary and alternative medicine, sustainability studies, peace, diplomacy and international relations, and applied, integrative and transpersonal psychology
Mission: The founding mission of Akamai University is founded upon the premise that amelioration of major world problems and the creation of sustainable lifestyles and global practices are the hallmarks of responsible individual and corporate world citizenship. As generators of new knowledge and developers of new systems, our sole mission as an institution is the advancement of the human condition and sustainability of the planet. The primary academic mission of the University is to provide mature adults with the opportunity to pursue life-long learning in an environment that supports flexible and individualized studies. Akamai University is committed to the design and use of appropriate cutting edge information, models, textual materials, and technological applications for delivery of quality degree programs, research, training, and distance-learning experiences. Akamai University understands and supports the need for research on all fronts of the human experience, from the arts and humanities, religious and spiritual arenas of ideas, to the concrete world of hard political and business decisions. The scope of research should reach from the realm of public health and disease control to the recognition of the whole person in the healing process and from the study of the depth of human psyche to the community as an incubator of social and psychological health. Our research scope also spans the essential areas of environmental and life science. Through quality in research, Akamai hopes to encourage the development of new systems addressing the need for each world citizen to acquire the knowledge and empowerment to foster change in their world. Akamai’s research mission and philosophy is to create and organize new knowledge and systems toward the amelioration of major world problems, improvement of the human community, and sustainability of our planet. he Akamai University mission for community service is to strive for a world filled with greater peace, balance, cooperation, and the promise of an evolved human fellowship. These are noble foundation stones upon which to establish the fundamentals of sustainable human culture. They are spiritual principles that demand a worthy mission, and although the tasks and goals before us seem immense, they are attainable with adequate understanding of the problems and solutions, and the full commitment and participation of the global community. While this is no small aspiration, the mission for community service is derived directly and in support of the founding mission of the institution.
Results: Akamai now has more than 3,000 alumni and 25 affiliated schools with whom we carry out collaborative educational activities , training, colloquium, quality assurance ventures, and research. Our students are residents of forty-six nations, including USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Macedonia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Lebanon, Australia, New Zealand, Gabon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Chad, Central Africa, Malia, Liberia, and Senegal.
Target demographics: with the betterment of the human condition and sustainability of the planet
Direct beneficiaries per year: 250 adult students and seven affiliated schools
Geographic areas served: across the international community by cross-border programs and guided distance education.
Programs: Education and training for leaders, journal and research ventures and community service projects in the areas of business and economic development, education and literacy, environmental and ecological studies, health and wellness, complementary and alternative medicine, sustainability studies, peace, diplomacy and international relations, and applied, integrative and transpersonal psychology
187Kinoole Stree, Hilo, HI 96720
1 (808) 934-8793
Education
Hilo
