The Opportunity

• A pioneering institution of higher learning as the World University, with its dynamic program of instruction and leadership, requires dynamic support of a selfless order. Money is needed on an international scale to finance this development world-wide.

• To accomplish this growth, the board of trustees set an initial goal $4.000,000 in U.S. currency to purchase the campus site for its International Secretariat and the proposed North American Regional College, to expand the international faculty and administration, to extend the world outreach of its supporting membership, and to create a substantial network of colleges, libraries and academic facilities wherever circumstances would permit.

• As a result of this effort, an 80 acre campus was purchased near Benson, Arizona, in 1985, including a visitor's center, a library ramada, a kitchen and dining facility, several residences, and a swimming pool. The World University Roundtable then contributed an international faculty in consultative status and laid the foundation for national offices in the several countries where the prospects for the World University development seemed the most promising.

• With this initiative, schools started to form around this nucleus of support, inspired by the leadership of the founder at the International Secretariat, Dr. Howard John Zitko. Not only were schools founded by the WU(R) membership as WU affiliated institutions, but schools already in being and administered by WU(R) members became identified as associated institutions, further broadening the influence of the World University in world affairs.

• It is our belief that the cause for the survival of humanity is so compelling, so justified by the suffering and moral demands of our times, and so important to the future of the peoples of the world, that we have no realistic alternative but to unite in doing our part to alleviate the distress, and perhaps more importantly, the uncertainty of what is yet to come.