OVERALL GOALS OF THE COMMUNIVERSITY
1. To familiarize and expose learners to a wide variety of 19th and 20th century African-American leaders and our rich history of struggles for human and civil right,national liberation and self determination.
2. To engage learners in a Concentrically Integrated African-Centered Web 2.0 Liberal Arts Curriculum--including, online mini-lectures, commentaries and interviews from our authors, playwrights, poets, activist and scholars--that will enable large amounts of information to be comprehended in a relatively short period of time.
3. To continue the development of an appreciation of Afrikan-Centered Education propagated through the Afrikan oral & musical traditions; including Afrikan Drums, Spoken Word / Rap, R & B, Blues, Jazz and Reggae.
4. To draw lessons from the rich legacy of struggle and resistance to oppression within the African American community through critical analysis of videos, photo-stories, multimedia essays and PowerPoint shows and scholarly charts, tables, graphs and PDF documents; thus fostering socio-political activism in the learners own lives.
5. To develop, encourage and diversify strategies for learning about and responding to social, political, cultural and moral issues impacting Afrikans in America, thus increasing comprehension and interpretation skills.
6. To synthesize serious community issues using multi-faceted content and learning objects which represent the perspective of those who are in an American minority group; and apply said principles and generalizations in investigation of societal issues and problems from an Afrikan-Centered perspective.
7. Finally and most importantly, to teach and learn from aspiring and seasoned teachers within a sophisticated SDL (Self Directed Learning)--e classes environment how to become more effective teachers, leaders and activist. We sharpen academic professionals and community educators / street scholars skills in the areas of public speaking, reading and writing critically and designing captivating presentation suitable for both whole-group and small-group settings. In other words, this is where the tutors (RBG Street Scholar) and other facilitators teach you how to become inspirer and healer of our people. Not only do we develop your skills, but we also provides you with the content to do you thang. You will even learn how to modify the content provided such that it becomes a new derivative product all you own; to do what you will, ie. teach from it, barter it etc.