Yorktown University prepares students for careers in the private and public sectors by educating them in the history, principles, and practices of American constitutional government and classical economics.

Objectives:

• Educate a new public service leadership distinguished by its informed responsibility to civil society.



• Cultivate a commitment to civic virtue, based on the belief that to live an authentically happy life, it is necessary to be a good human being and a good citizen.



• Produce a higher order of critical thinking and writing abilities among students whose passion are the well-being of American politics and government, its economy, religions, and culture.

Methodology:

• Providing some of the best faculty, teaching excellent courses that excite, encourage, and evaluate students as they pursue Yorktown's mission goals;



• Insuring that each student enjoys direct access to his or her professor for immediate responses regarding questions, ideas, and inquiries; and



• Offering an online network of resources, including reference library consulting, of which Yorktown professors as senior scholars in their subject area are part of and introduce their students into.

Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D