A
Message from the President ~
A landmark work appeared in the 1850’s, the
product of John Henry Cardinal Newman, whose desire to build
a great university for the citizens of Ireland became a
life’s work. He recognized a population, which in the 20th
Century was relabeled “a new clientele” for higher education,
but in reality was not unlike the 19th Century description
of the “self-taught”.
Cardinal Newman argued that the self-taught
were likely “to have more thought, more mind, more philosophy,
more true enlargement than those earnest but ill-used persons,
who are forced to load their minds with a score of subjects
against an examination, who have too much in their hands
to indulge themselves in thinking or investigation, who
devour premises and conclusion together with indiscriminate
greediness, who hold whole sciences on faith and often commit
demonstrations to memory and who too often, as might be
expected, when the period of education is passed, throw
up all they have learned in disgust, having gained nothing
really by their anxious labors, except perhaps the habit
of application."
The refinement of educational delivery systems
for the “self-taught” has undergone and is still undergoing
rapid and significant changes in the method of delivery.
At the core of this effort is the inquiring student whose
academic life demands flexibility and a delivery system
that meets that demand.
Newport University has been among the pioneers
of a new age of course delivery systems and has been honored
to serve in a time of innovation and invention. At Newport
University the self-taught and faculty guidance are brought
together to produce graduates who have found service in
their professions and occupations. This goal will not change
in the New Millennium.
Sincerely,
Clive L. Grafton
Clive L. Grafton, Ed.D.
President of the University
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