Yes. it was created in 2003 and stands as the first online tuition free university in the world.

To provide  financially challenged and "poor" international student scholars a graduate education without concern for how it would be paid. In return, DiUlus Scholars work to help eliminate ignorance in the world; a continuation of the founders vision to eliminate poverty and hunger in the world.

Yes. many, including military academies, religious schools, etc. However, there are only three totally online institutions and the DiUlus Institute is the first and only research based institution of higher learning among the choices.

Potential graduate students from United Nations developing countries, US senior citizens aged 70 and above living entirely on their social security income, US Military men and women stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan when they applied, and native American Indians living in the great southwest on Indian lands and below the US poverty level. The Institute does not otherwise discriminate based on race, religion, age, ethnic background or lifestyle choice. However, the Institute, because it does provide the education free of cost, reserves the right to deny admission to any candiddate it feels is either not qualified or does not meet the strict moral and ethical standards of the Institute and do not possess a willingness to ascribe and support the Institute's Character and Ethics Code of Behavior.

The Institute is currently accepting and reviewing applications from scholar candidates from 50 nations. As the number of nations recommending students goes up, the competition for available appointments increase. The first ten Student Scholars of an anticipated 150 are expected to begin to matriculate in 2009. 

The application process can take up to a year. Prospective DiUlus Scholar records and references are reviewed by the e-Education Trust,  a credential and records verification and validation service provided by Global Academy Online, Inc.

You must first meet the minimum criteria listed above and also exemplify a scholastic aptitude to thrive in a distance education environment. DiUlus Scholars must also evidence the highest ideals of character and ethics, demonstrate an active desire for public service, and proffer a personal blueprint of their willingness to invest time, talent, and even treasure in serving their fellow man, community and nation. Once admitted, a DiUlus Scholar must also continue to demonstrate a desire to excel.

The Institute is far too new to be accredited by any one of the six regional  USA's private and recognized accrediting agencies of the Department of Education. However, the Institute has turned down and chosen not to affiliate with any of the army of privately organized accrediting agencies that do not have the muscle to provide attending students the ability to acquire US Federal Guararnteed Student Loan assistance to attend. Thus, the Institute is pursuing US national accreditation that does have such an affiliation with the US Department of Education.

In addition, the Institute has acquired recognition of its academic program with several accredited and ministerially approved international schools, a recognition that assures that work accomplished at the DiUlus Institute will be both recognized and accredited through them. These agencies are listed by UNESCO of the United Nations as approved and recognized institutions in their host nations. UNESCO listed schools are recoginized as legitimate institutions by member nations of the UN including the USA. It is anticipated that before the first student graduates from the Institute, American accreditation is anticipated to be in place that will satisfy international and domestic USA professional agencies.

The Institute provides an important and patent pending institutional measurement that permits individual student certification for completed scholastic work on the one hand while on the other, the faculty of the Institute validate their DiUlus Scholar learners through an extensive transcripting  process that is based on satisfactory completion of all course work. This process will permit faculty to make course assessments for each student, an assessment that becomes a permanent part of the student record of DiUlus Scholars. 

The Institute faculty come from a faculty pool provided by Global Academy Online, Inc. They must be current or former full-time faculty at recognized accredited colleges and universities. Their accrediting agency must be recognized by the Institute and, in the case of US faculty, recognized by the USA Department of Education. All Institute faculty have advanced degrees with over 95% possessing an earned doctorate. Institute faculty are expected to bring the same rigor and requirements to the virtual classrooms that meet required standards of academic rigor recognized by  accrediting and licensing agencies throughout the world. 

All graduate curriculum leading to an advanced degree or certificate are licensed through Global Academy Online. The Academy is an independent online institutional provider of curriculum and instruction to colleges and universities on four continents. The Academy is not a university. It is a private, generic, online course developer for colleges, universities and eLearning organizations. Each program licensed by the Institute is designed to meet the scrutiny and approval of any accrediting agency and those requirements of various state and international jurisdictions as well.

Beneficiaries include new and existing online higher education provider schools and organizations. By observing the Institute, they are given the opportunity to take advantage of the breakthrough developments in online delivery. This includes innovative and new ways of delivering meaningful and complete online education. And, last but certainly not least, the DiUlus Scholars'  experience benefits everyone in their community.  

The Institute plans to remain a dedicated, education research facility. It seeks to be the beacon that can promote the best that an online higher education has to offer. By example, the Institute hopes to show how it should be conducted.

The number is based on current faculty resources and availability. The number is also impacted by current and long term financial commitments to support the Institute by its sponsor.  Thus the number has been fixed at 150 DiUlus Scholars. As more financial resources are made available to the Institute by the sponsor and/or other benefactors, that number will rise.

Global Academy Online, Inc. and its resident and adjunct faculty fund the Institute. The Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise, the thirteen year old non-profit arm of the Academy, manages the faculty and administers the day-to-day operations of the DiUlus Institute.

The DiUlus Institute is headquartered in cyber-space on the Internet. Its nature is to be a fully operational online institution of higher learning that requires no buildings, no bricks or mortar, and no required offices or meeting places. All administration, offices, contacts, classes and faculty are online. There are no blended (part online/part in the classroom) courses. All student matriculation for any Institute course or program, now or in the future, will always be online.

No, However, international gathering place centers are being targeted currently to be established not only in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico but in  Costa Rica,  Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Italy, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, China, Ecuador, Peru, Panam and Mexico. These centers are being initiated to facilitate conferences, symposia and workshops for faculty, students, research scholars, as well as a central clearing and access point for students to matriculate through other online universities throughout the world. These are dedicated online education providers that can improve and develop online higher education to the fullest. The centers may be used for retreats and intellectual research among faculty and learners of the DiUlus Institute.

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