Educational Priorities

To develop, implement, evaluate, and refine high-quality educational resources for enterprising students across the full life span.

• NorthBay: Engages school-age children and youth in outdoor learning with an environmental sciences focus. The fun activities and adventures enable breakthrough discoveries that build character and leadership skills.
• Erickson School: Prepares tomorrow’s leaders through undergraduate and graduate-level degree programs and executive training institutes. Students stay on top of recent developments and current best practices in the interrelated fields of applied gerontology (the study of aging in applied settings), the business of aging, public policy pertaining to aging services, and aging services management.
• Learning Villages: Supply safe and affordable housing to students immersed in the college experience.
• Scholarship Programs: Provide need-based scholarships to children and youth to attend schools of their family’s choosing.
• Point Lookout: Offers consumers of all ages and a variety of professionals an educational venue of unparalleled natural beauty to pursue their life aspirations. The focus is on whole-person wellness across the full life span.
• Erickson Fellowship in Gerontology: Creates opportunities for doctoral students to engage in field-based preparation for leadership careers in the field of gerontology with an emphasis on supervised research-based activities.