Maharishi University of Management
MUM HAWAII
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Maharishi University of Management
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Accreditation
Maharishi University of Management is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The Higher Learning Commission is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
Maharishi University of Management is authorized to offer post-secondary education in the state of Iowa under the administration by the Iowa College Student Aid Commission.
Students wishing to see the accreditation or state authorization documents may contact the Director of Financial Aid.
From our beginning over forty years ago, MUM has had a strong commitment to sustainability — both its outer and inner values.
Outer sustainability: MUM is fully committed to sustainable practices as one of America’s most green universities (see the list below). In fact, MUM was the first university in the US to offer a BA in Sustainable Living and an MBA in Sustainable Business.
Inner sustainability: We believe there’s more to sustainability than the outer values. The qualities of inner calm, wellness, clarity of mind, and resilience are needed to most effectively fulfill the outer values. All students and faculty at MUM practice the Transcendental Meditation technique to cultivate these qualities.
The Green Facts About MUM:
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Groundbreaking new net-zero Sustainable Living Center
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95% of food budget spent on local/organic foods
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100% of dining hall food scraps composted
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100% of campus grounds maintained organically
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Single-stream recycling stations in dorms
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MUM has a formal sustainability committee
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New construction must be LEED-certified or meet standards of a comparable third-party rating system
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We have a university-wide policy of purchasing office paper with high recycled content
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Public GHG inventory plan
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We employ a sustainability officer
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MUM provides guidance on green jobs
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Target date of 2017 to have 100% of electricity production needs met from renewable resources
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Available transportation alternatives: restricting parking, bike share, vanpool, preferred parking
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MUM was the first university in the U.S. to offer a degree in sustainable living
Transcendental Meditation
All students and faculty in our department practice the Transcendental Meditation technique, an evidence-based practice that reduces stress, enhances brain functioning, and increases creativity.
This technique allows your active mind to easily settle inward, through quieter levels of thought, until you experience the most silent and peaceful level of your own awareness — pure consciousness.
The Management in MUM
Management refers to the principle that every facet of our lives requires skillful management. We need to properly manage our health, our relationships, our careers. We need to manage our families, our communities. We need to manage the organizations we serve. We need to manage our country and our planet.
When we do not manage things properly, we make mistakes, creating problems and even suffering for ourselves and others. With skillful management, on the other hand, we’re able to fulfill our desires with greater ease while simultaneously fulfilling the desires of those around us.
When we look around us — at the challenges we face in terms of health, government, the environment, our ability to live together peacefully, and many other areas — it’s apparent that we need to increase the management skill we bring to every aspect of life. It’s clear that something has been missing from education.
Development of Consciousness
Education at MUM furnishes this missing element. The foundation of education here is development of consciousness (see Consciousness-BasedSM Education).
This approach cultivates students’ creativity and intelligence from deep within — and the greater your creativity and intelligence, the stronger the foundation you have for proficient management.
Development of consciousness also means growing in the ability to think and act in harmony with natural law, so that natural law supports you in fulfilling your desires and everything you do is spontaneously life-nourishing at all levels.
MUM Sustainable Living
Sustainability begins within ourselves–that’s why our department emphasizes both inner and outer sustainability.
MUM is the first U.S. university to offer a Sustainable Living Degree, and it transformed the whole campus culture. We utilize renewable energy, compost our dining hall waste, and are committed to increasing campus sustainability.
The Award-Winning Sustainable Living Center, Fairfield, IA.
Home of the Sustainable Living Department at Maharishi University of Management.
MUM is a Member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
MUM is a Member of the Association of the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Des Moines Register article about MUM Campus Sustainability.
John Fagan, Dean of MUM Sustainable Living
Dr. John Fagan is a leading authority on sustainability in the food and agricultural system, on biosafety, and on food safety and authenticity. He is a successful entrepreneur in the field of biotechnology, having founded, built and sold Global ID Group, a pioneering company developing innovative molecular biological tools to verify and advance food purity, safety and sustainability. His expertise is sought around the world by industry and government leaders, scientists, and the public, to whom he has presented hundreds of lectures and provided advisory services during the last decades.
More on Consciousness-Based℠ Education
Consciousness-Based℠ education has transformed the process of learning by connecting each discipline with the student’s personal experience in the following ways:
1. Direct development of consciousness
At MUM, all students learn and practice the Transcendental Meditation® technique, a systematic and scientifically verified means of developing one’s total potential. This is the core of Consciousness-Based education.
Through this simple, natural, and effortless procedure, students enliven the most creative, powerful, and blissful level of their own awareness — pure consciousness. The result is greater intelligence, greater creativity, greater learning ability, less stress, better health, better relationships — and, as a result, a better world.
The advanced TM-Sidhi® program, including Yogic Flying®, accelerates the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique, especially when practiced in groups, as we do here.
2. A unifying framework for all knowledge
All human knowledge is an expression of consciousness. If you understand the basic principles of consciousness, you understand the basic principles of all fields of knowledge.
All courses at MUM are taught in light of these unifying principles of consciousness. What do you gain from this?
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You’ll be able to go to the very deepest level in every subject you study.
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You’ll be able to move easily from one field of study to another.
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You’ll understand the relationships among all subjects you study.
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You’ll connect what you’re studying to your personal growth — the growth of your own consciousness — so that what you study is more personally relevant.
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You’ll increasingly experience and understand life as a whole.
3. Special teaching and learning techniques that develop holistic awareness
Faculty at MUM use special techniques that reflect fundamental laws of learning.
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The whole course on the first day — In each course you take, you’ll learn all the main principles of the course at the start. The remainder of the course then explores these themes.
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Main point charts — For each main lesson in a course, there is a wall chart displaying the main 3-4 points of the lesson. This helps the faculty organize the lessons, and it gives you the knowledge of the lesson at a glance. Each point also shows how the discipline’s knowledge is illuminated by the knowledge of the science and technology of consciousness — the knowledge of your self.
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Unified field charts — These wall charts map the entire discipline and all its branches, showing the relationships among all of them. They show how the discipline you’re studying emerges from the underlying field of pure consciousness, pure intelligence. And they show how you experience this underlying field directly, deep within yourself, through your Transcendental Meditation practice. With these charts, you’ll always see the big picture of the field of study — you never get lost in the details — and always see how what you’re studying relates to you personally.
4. Stress-free routine and nourishing environment
To develop your full creative potential and get the most out of your college education, it’s vital to maintain a restfully alert quality of mind and body. How do we do that here?
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Meditation — daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs.
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Pure food— organic, vegetarian, freshly prepared.
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Exercise — We encourage vigorous physical activity every day, whether in our 60,000 square-foot recreation center or outside.
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Early bedtime — We encourage students to be in bed by 10 p.m., so they’re as fresh and alert and dynamic as possible the next day. Homework assignments can be finished before then. This means you won’t have the stress of staying up late to study, which does not promote learning, good health, or well-being.