January 19, 2001
Soka U. Tries to Reinvent College
A Buddhist-influenced university tosses aside tenure and hierarchies in an unusual approach to higher education
Midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, not far from chichi Laguna Beach, a new private college campus rises from a hill like a sun-bathed Tuscan village. Pristine buildings faced with hand-cut Italian stone and capped by red terra-cotta rooftops will form the crucible from which, founders claim, the enlightened university of the future will emerge.
Soka University
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