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Tuition-free education is uncommon in the United States’ Higher Education system, but not so uncommon in other places around the world. Further, one could make the argument that the top schools are found in the United States.

However, if one looks at the output -the graduates- created by these universities, top schools or the smaller less known, one can clearly see either an individual being prepared for life in academia, the perpetuation of the system, or an individual being prepared for a life of employment.

So, where are the innovators? The creators? The entrepreneurs? Where do they come from?

We -at InSB- believe we are missing the point with the current system. We are burdening the students -economically and academically- to the point of preventing their full potential.

If we were to offset the economic burden, in addition to provide the students with truly applicable skills along with real-world opportunities to discover their strengths and passions, we would allow them the opportunity to take greater risks, ultimately opening room for the creation of innovation.

Help us, as we defy all the rules, taking our own risk to encourage others to do so -in AEC.

Read more about our tuition-free undergraduate track

Read more about our tuition-free graduate track

Today we launched our crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo, to ensure that waiting for our 501c3 tax exempt status approval -which is now delayed, having applied on 07/2012- does not impede the continued development and launches of our tuition-free higher ed models, and our accessible professional ed programs and micro-courses.

Please consider supporting InSB, and share our campaign with your friends. It is our duty to improve our educational systems, and that of our industry, especially in wanting “TO FOSTER THE NEXT (BEST) AEC+ GENERATION” 

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InSB has coined a phrase :

“Integration is the new Education”

Integration, at many levels, is what will take the current obsolete Higher Education model into the next century’s learning. It will cultivate the minds, and drive the innovations, of the new, more demanding and more proactive, faster-paced students across every field.

The current model remains mostly distanced from professions -with exceptions like medicine-, and this “space” of disconnect is always a missed opportunity for propelling that particular industry forward.

Unfortunately, what seems to be a fact is that the current model is in place for academics to cultivate more academics. Not many are looking beyond the walls of the institution.

We, at InSB, are industry specific. We live in AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) but if we, and others, begin to truly integrate education with fulfilling practical experiences, and students with professionals and professional firms, and all of the above within a context (with the cities and communities) we may just begin to see a drastic transformation, and we will see innovation in overdrive.

We each want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, and it is human nature to feel the need to make a difference. It is the only thing that is truly fulfilling.

We will see significant improvements across every industry when new models of Higher Ed are in place, and not to be self-servant, but instead to provide its students with these opportunities.

We need to create a space, especially at the graduate level, where students are truly integrated with their passions and aspirations.

Will you join us?… For a new (better) Higher Ed!

What would it take to create a new, more sustainable, Higher Education? What makes existing institutions static, hard to truly be regenerative, and perpetuate their own progressive education model development?

We ask ourselves those questions often.

At InSB we are committed to develop a dynamic model, one that will improve, and change, as times and the industry needs change; a model that will lead the way to sustainability and innovation.

This can only be done by ensuring we are ever-evolving (avoiding political and personal interests to exist – ie tenureship), and by constantly being in touch with the real world. Connecting and collaborating with the professions.

Is the existing Higher Education model another economic bubble, ready to burst? 

Student debt, in the US for the first time in economic history, exceeds financial and credit card debt. That is staggering.

The student is least to blame as, if looked holistically, Higher Education institutions have operated mostly with their own interests as priority, like any other business. Except they are not every other business, and the interests of the student body, as well as that of the industry they are entering, should supersede.

Does the Higher Ed Model need disrupting?

Many recent articles have been published speaking of “disrupting” the existing model, and creating institutions that will be innovative and student-centered, putting their interests first before the institution’s.

Join us, in the journey, of being “disruptive”.

We will proceed the set the foundation for a new specialized, connected, sustainable education.

Join us as we foster the next (best) AEC generation.

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