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Ubiquity University
Ubiquity University is a global, mostly virtual learning platform offering graduate degrees, short courses, and in-person experiences focused on wisdom traditions, consciousness, regeneration, and conscious leadership. Founded by Jim Garrison as a for-profit Social Benefit Corporation, it blends academic study with self-mastery and real-world impact through a 'head, heart, hands' model, and runs Humanity Rising, a daily global forum reaching audiences across 130+ countries.
Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison is the Founder and President of Ubiquity University, a next-generation global learning platform blending academic rigor with consciousness development, social innovation, and transformative education. Born in 1951 in Szechuan Province, China, to Baptist missionary parents, Garrison holds a PhD in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge and has spent five decades at the intersection of education, diplomacy, and civilizational transformation - co-founding the Gorbachev Foundation/USA with Mikhail Gorbachev after the Cold War, launching the State of the World Forum, and more recently convening Humanity Rising, a global summit initiative launched in 2020 that has engaged hundreds of thousands of activists worldwide.