Monticello College

Monticello College offers real leadership training in an environment that requires each student and mentor to continually reevaluate themselves and what they hope to contribute to society. The campus environment instills leadership qualities such as cooperation, hard work, problem-solving, personal fortitude and reliance on a higher power. Our day-... to-day campus life is filled with campus duties for all-hands, plenty of academic rigor, and physical challenges that leave students confident, self-assured, and invigorated. Service plays a huge part in all that we do. We believe that these future leaders have a few precious years to prepare for the rest of their lives-lives that undoubtedly will be filled with tough-decisions, struggles to provide for families, relationship challenges, leadership opportunities, and lots of service to their communities. Now is the time to prepare for the rest of their lives. During the summer, we bring in professionals from a variety of fields that share a vital interest in ensuring our students understand what succeeding in the real world requires, and what kind of leadership the world needs. These "professors" follow student progress from a distance, offer internships, and even play a part in validating student qualifications for graduation. Monticello College is a unique educational offering. It is designed to spend less time preparing for tests and more time learning and growing. Its focus is to groom students to be successful from a "how the world really works" perspective, while fueling that optimistic, "We must save the world" set of glasses that most college students wear. Josiah Bunting, in his book, An Education for Our Time, states, "The things our country requires are simply not the things our colleges are prepared to deliver."Read More