January/February 2012 Community Spotlight
Ananda College Opening New Oregon Campus
by Ananda College
Ananda College of Living Wisdom, based in Nevada City, Calif., is set to open a satellite campus 30 minutes southwest of Portland in September 2012. The college’s Laurelwood campus will be located in Gaston, Ore.
Ananda College, founded in 2003, is a California state-approved college offering associate and bachelor of art degrees and certificate programs. Inspired by the wisdom traditions of the world, the college is a non-profit educational institution providing a distinctive, student-centered liberal arts academic environment that encourages and supports spiritual growth and inquiry.
The Laurelwood campus will offer a range of classes in degree and non-degree programs, including education for life teacher training, directional psychology, inspirational arts, cooperative communities and sustainability, holistic health and healing, yoga philosophy and yoga teacher training, world cultures and consciousness, and dharmic business and leadership.
The new Oregon campus has on-site dormitory space for 300 to 500 students, and includes a large auditorium with seating for 500 people, a gymnasium and theater space capable of seating 1,500 people, kitchen and dining facilities for up to 500 people, a large number of lecture-style classrooms, science lab classrooms, music classrooms, a huge space for vegetarian cooking classes, library and many carpeted rooms for yoga and yoga therapy classes.
Interested students may apply to the Laurelwood campus through Ananda College admissions at www.anandauniversity.org.