Participants

Who is involved in the Institute

Faculty and students have typically been involved in the following organizations and movements:

Mentors

Every entering class of students is assigned a mentor or mentors selected from the faculty. The mentors serve as counselors, resources, consultants, and guides for the three-year period.

Faculty

Faculty members are nominated by the Co-Deans from academic scholars and community leaders who, by training or experience, can offer advance instruction to the students of the Institute. Other officers of instruction are named by the Board of Directors on recommendation of the Co-Deans.

“The Humanist Institute stands for my life’s work and what it has meant at its best. I recognize how little one individual in one lifetime can mean in the totality of generations. But I know that through the Institute’s graduates my values will live on, that the world will be a better place for human beings with some lessening of fear and hate and some increment of good in people’s struggle for a better life.”

Jean Kotkin
Founding Member of NACH
Past Executive Director of the Humanist Institute
Ethical Culture Leader

“As a graduate of the first class of the Humanist Institute, I have always felt that I was a part of a very exciting ‘grand experiment’. The Institute was a brand new concept in training people for professional Humanist leadership. I believe that I was very privileged to have been involved with the Institute and to have been associated with such an outstanding group of faculty members and extraordinary fellow students. To say that the Institute changed my life would be an understatement.”

Suzanne Paul
Humanist Leader
Humanist Institute Alum
Past President NACH and American Humanist Association
UU Minister