ASHÉ COLLEGE UNBOUND
“Having people to believe in you even when you don’t always believe in yourself is enough to make you feel as if you can walk on water (but don’t try to walk on water though, just not gonna end well!).”
- Keshia “Peaches” Caldwell (1977-2018)
Poet & Ashé College Unbound Graduate
ASHÉ COLLEGE UNBOUND recognizes community-based institutions as knowledge-generating centers.
Working in partnership with College Unbound and Roger Williams University, Ashé College Unbound created a pathway for students and community members to earn bachelor’s degrees in Cultural & Community Development through individual curriculum, documentation of life experience, online classes, mentor advisement as well as workshops and seminars.
The graduation of Ashé College Unbound’s inaugural class.
College Unbound is the adult learning initiative of Big Picture Learning, a non-profit organization dedicated to the fundamental redesign of education in the United States with 20 years of success building and sustaining a network of over 100 high schools in 27 cities across the nation, as well as schools in Australia and the Netherlands. It launched College Unbound in 2009 and has worked within the higher education system as part of continuing studies, as a residential program, as a distance learning option, as a on-campus option, and as a unique hybrid of online content and on-ground learning, application and support.