August 13, 2025

Explore Prescott’s Global Centers and Partnerships

Did you know that Prescott College students have the opportunity to take weekend, weeklong, or full-semester field courses immersed in a community-based environment across the U.S. and abroad?

Building on decades of deep engagement at our field campuses in Kino Bay, Mexico and the Dopoi Center in Kenya, we are cultivating a dynamic ecosystem of collaborative sites and institutions that share our commitment to place-based, experiential, and transdisciplinary education.

Check out the interactive map on our Global Centers and Partnerships page and learn more about how our undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students can reside and work alongside community members, resource managers, and researchers for field courses, independent study, or graduate research.

Our Global Centers include:

Prescott College Center for Nature & Place

Prescott College Dopoi Center

Prescott College Kino Bay Center

Walnut Creek Center for Education & Research (WCCER)


Our Global Partners include:

Barren College of Art

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) – Budapest, Hungary

Planetary Health Alliance – Johns Hopkins University at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC

Siendo Naturaleza – Learning Center – in the Peruvian Amazon

Thoreau College – Viroqua, WI

University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) – Notodden, Norway

The Western Slope Institute (WSI) – Durango, CO

XIM University – Nijigada, Kurki, Harirajpur, Odisha, India


CIEL Partners

Bennington College – Bennington, VT

Evergreen State College – Olympia, WA

Fairhaven College at Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA

Hampshire College – Amherst, MA

New College at the University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, AL

Pitzer College – Claremont, CA

Rochester Institute of Technology School of Individualized Studies – Rochester, NY

University of Hearst (Université de Hearst) – Ontario, Canada

University of Redlands, Johnson Center for Integrative Studies – Redlands, CA

Westminster University – Salt Lake City, UT


EcoLeague Partners

Alaska Pacific University (APU) – Anchorage, AKUniversity of Hearst (Université de Hearst) – Ontario, Canada

College of the Atlantic (COA) – Bar Harbor, ME

Dickinson University, Carlisle, PA

New College of Florida – Sarasota, FL

St. Lawrence University – Canton, NY