The Minds and Men
Behind the Development of
The College of the United States

The College of the United States Founder/President Marsha Familaro Enright, M.A. Psychology, has allied herself with intellectuals across the country to establish the College. Each one brings an impressive set of disciplines, research and work expertise in every field imaginable to the founding and development of the College.

They have come together with the same philosophy about education––that young people are looking for alternatives to the current epistemological and ethical relativism; political and social collectivism and anti-capitalist, anti-business ideas that are prevalent in colleges and universities throughout the country. They think that reason, individualism and freedom are the pathways to human flourishing and the only way to enable individuals to pursue happy and productive lives.

These people include an Intellectual Property Lawyer, a Ph.D. Organizational Psychologist and Harvard lecturer, and others who have Ph.D.’s and Masters degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy, Library and Information Science, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Politics, British Literature and Literary Aesthetics.

She has also chosen many directors, advisors, consultants and mentors who have vast experience in business and education, including a C.F.A. who is Managing Director of Capital Markets at an investment banking firm; a former banker for JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup; a neurosurgeon, biotechnology inventor and entrepreneur; and a highly successful entrepreneur who graduated from the Entrepreneurship Program of Purdue University.

Those who have joined in the development of the college include a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, AL, who holds the R. C. Hoiles Professorship of Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, CA; the author of Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind; and a  Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford, Yale University Visiting Fellow, and former Chair of the New England Section of the American Physical Society, who researches Mathematical Physics, Computational Physics and Interdisciplinary Education.

Also included in this project are an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University; a Professor of Atmospheric Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan and former Director of the Plasma Physics Research Institute at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California; and a Professor of Political Philosophy from Michigan State University who is an expert on liberal arts education, its history, importance and problems, and a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program of American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton for 2006-07.

"The hallmark of a well-functioning mind is the ability to identify facts, analyze ideas, integrate knowledge, and successfully translate principles into action."