The Graduate University of America, New School of Positive Psychology is a nonprofit,
membership association owned and operated by University Church.
Since 1996, we have been offering our students the opportunity to earn their
degree at an affordable cost. We are proud of our students and graduates
who continue to have a major impact on creating a world of well-being.
We invite you to join our community of positive psychology and human behavior
scholars, diplomates, practitioners, and researchers.
We are a member of The University Consortium.
Spirituality and Morality
Spirituality infuses all of life and is the driving force of our university. It includes
a sense of connection to something bigger than us and, at its core, creation of
meaning in life.
Moral behavior is concerned with actions that enhance the well-being of all living
things making life better for us all.
Spirituality and morality are part of all human beings, whether we realize
it or not. No exceptions.
A spiritual experience is a deep sense of aliveness and connection with the
cosmos and other people.
There is an ultimate power in the universe; we just don’t know anything about it other
than the physical laws of the universe.
Homo sapiens have always searched for this power but as of yet have not found it.
Legal
Our university is in full compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court’s standard
for constitutional interpretation based on text and historical practice.
Under this standard, state legislatures cannot regulate religious or moral education
pursuant to the 1st Amendment. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines
moral education as religious education and has the same protection as
religious practice and education.
Freedom of speech, religion, and education cannot be denied by legislative fiat.
These rights prohibit legislatures from passing laws regulating speech, religion,
or education.
In the 2022 Bruen decision, the United States Supreme Court clarified the standard
for constitutional interpretation. Constitutional interpretation is rooted in text and history.
When the Constitutional text plainly covers an individual’s conduct, the conduct is
presumptively protected, and the history of the conduct supports the presumption.
Therefore, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of word usage,
freedom of ideas, and freedom of education, as a logical extension of freedom of
speech and religion, are also subject to the presumption of protection based on
the historical treatment of education and the text itself.
Legislatures are therefore barred from regulating any form of private education.
3,813 (67%) out of approximately 5,706 total colleges and universities in the U.S.
were formed by private individuals, associations, and churches without legislative
interference.
This fact meets the U. S. Supreme Court’s historical practice standard. Freedom
of higher education is a logical extension of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of education for private religious and secular education at the K-12 level
has always been free of legislative interference.