We created experiential learning communities that inspired informed & compassionate ecological leadership. 2023 update: The EEI bus program is not happening at this time. There are many and multiple offshoots, programs inspired or influenced by the 50+ years of the BUS programs. These will continue to be highlighted here along with the topics of culture shift, climate change, and all the rest. COV
ID updates: EEI is currently not running full semester bus programs. We are in a regenerative planning phase~figuring out what is possible in the current climate and for the best future of the program. We are offering limited virtual programs as well as a summer 2021 Homestead Immersion program that we are co-sponsoring with the Barre Center of Buddhist Studies (BCBS). The summer program is a collaboration among the BCBS, and former Marlboro and BUS faculty and graduates. Applications for Touching the Earth are due by April 1st - don't miss it! https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/touching_earth/
EEI was partnered with Marlboro College in Vermont, offering accredited college semesters for undergraduates and gap year students for 5 years. The Expedition Education Institute comes from more than 40 years of higher education rooted in direct experience, personal discovery, independent learning, and immersion in the natural world, as practiced by the former Audubon Expedition Institute. Throughout this legacy, the program has offered students and faculty the opportunity to live and learn together in an experiential learning community, traveling in a custom-retrofitted school bus. Participants eat, sleep, and study outdoors within a bioregion as they explore local and global environmental challenges that communities and ecosystems are facing as well as the solutions these communities are creating.