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The Hilliard Institute for Educational Wellness
Director: Jessa Hilliard Sexton, M.Ed.

The Hilliard Institute is a part of the O'More Sensory Teaching and Learning Center of O'More College of Design and is dedicated to Jack and Lola Hilliard, long-time educators and parents of Dr. K. Mark Hilliard, President and CEO of O'More College of Design and Founder of The Hilliard Institute, and grandparents of Jessa Hilliard Sexton, Institute Director.

The Institute offers innovative methodologies for academic research and a holistic approach to teaching and learning. Its philosophy is based on the principles of sensory stimulation and exploration as the most meaningful foundation for learned skills and knowledge. The overall intent of The Institute is to prepare our faculty, staff, students, and community to be globally and culturally competent, to be scholarly and creatively trained, and to be readily able to present themselves and their skills and knowledge in a professional manner.

The Hilliard Institute for Educational Wellness is financially supported and mentored by the O'More College Sensory Teaching and Learning Council of the O'More College of Design Board of Trustees and includes a variety of innovative programs as the means for offering this unique training to our faculty, staff, students, and community. These programs include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. The O'More Educational Teaching and Learning Lab:

• Sensory assessment and teaching and learning workshops and classes for faculty and students:
  • Hilliard Circle of Teaching and Learning and Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Global Competency
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Right and Left Cerebral Hemisphere Research
  • Brain Based Learning
  • Design Thinking Methodologies
  • High-Level Questioning
  • Experiential Teaching and Learning
  • Non-Traditional and Criterion Based Assessment
  • Improved Student Ability to Read and Write
  • Spirituality - Finding Meaning and Purpose, Ethics, Confidence and Character Building, Kindness, Fairness, Authenticity
  • Segmented Classes into 20-30 Minute Sessions
• Academic tutoring for students
• Oxford-style academic tutorial teaching labs
• Faculty development training through organizational workshops and conferences
• Faculty scholarships for graduate and post-graduate continued education
• Faculty sabbaticals for research and publishing

2. The O'More President's Society of Fellows and Scholars recognizes the highest grade of profes­sorship in our college. These members place a continued emphasis on updating their research, on publish­ing, and on public service and scholarship.

3. The O'More Research Academy (ORA) is a fellowship program that introduces undergrads to one-on-one design research, publishing, and service with the assistance of academic and design faculty and practicing professionals-most of whom are faculty fellows or scholars.

4. The Conservatoire d' O'More offers yearly skills workshops:

• O'More Image Conservatory (a training program for our students and faculty on personal image, presentation style, resume writing, interview coaching, career directives, and professional and social etiquette).
• O'More Language Conservatory (an intense, fast tracked language program) 
• Additional Conservatories for writing, art, music, dance, and fashion modeling are under construction.

5. The O'More Conservation Corp. is a program dedicated to the conservation of our campus, our community, and our planet through a variety of eco-initiatives both on and off campus:

• Campus Green Committee: ECO-Logic
• Bike Design Initiative
• Eco-Travel Courses
• Eco-Education and Sustainability Courses
• Campus Recycling Program
• Community Conservation Service Projects

6. The O'More Social Alliance provides a variety of campus social clubs:

• O'More Book Club
• Untouchables Men's Society for Quality Design
• Summer Travel Club
• Departmental Clubs
• Dr. Kelton Pipe and Philosophy Society
• O'More-Irish Society

7. O'More Publishing is an in-house publishing company, dedicated to the expansion of innovative academic, historical, artistic, and design knowledge through the written and illustrated word.

For more information on the Hilliard Insitute, contact Jessa Sexton at jsexton@omorecollege.edu.