The university has been serving adults wherever they live and work since 1972.
Adults earn credit for knowledge they already have and take high-quality, distance learning courses.
The College offers 13 undergraduate degrees and the on-line Master of Science in Management with no residency for most programs. One idea is the simulation of an individual's brain activity, making it possible for future generations to converse with a virtual equivalent of the person years after his or her death. By the 2030s, technology may be developed to simulate a nervous system's electrical activity, allowing thoughts and feelings to be preserved. A person's life could be recorded using tiny video cameras housed in eyeglass frames. These cameras could be linked to IBM's newest hard disk, which is the size of a quarter and stores 300 MB, or one month worth of data.