ABOUT US

Shaping our Scottish Rite future

Welcome to the United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA, Inc., Online Masonic Academy. We are excited to work with all Masonic students during their time at the academy and will do everything we can to help ensure student success. We will do our best to help you integrate classroom learning with all aspects of academy life in order to provide you with a seamless educational experience.

The United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA, Inc., Online Masonic Academy is an amazing online LMS campus with a diversity of programs and resources at your disposal. The design of the USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) is to help you make sense of all of your opportunities so that you can achieve your highest potential at the academy. We are here to support you, challenge you and advocate on your behalf when appropriate.  If you have a concern, question or complaint and you don't know where else to go, you can contact us and we'll answer your question or help to resolve your issue. 

We are committed to help you be as successful as possible while you make true meaning out of your Scottish Rite experience. Please let us know how we can help.  Best wishes for an engaging journey.

On the Three Points of the Compass,

USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) Team

USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D)

The USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) is a United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc. Committee responsible for managing Masonic educational programs and materials of the United Supreme Council, as well as those from Member Societies and further dissemination of Masonic information to Masonic bodies and individuals outside the Jurisdiction.

Mission

The mission of the USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) is to manage, devise and disseminate educational programs and materials of the United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc., as well as of those from United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc. Member organizations. In collaboration with other Orients, the Committee must enhance the dissemination of Masonic knowledge related to Scottish Rite Freemasonry throughout the Northern Jurisdiction.

Goals

The goals of the USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) include the following:

Create Unified Education Calendar - The USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) is preparing an educational calendar that will be available on the United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc. website.  This will provide the benefit of additional worldwide publicity for events and a single point of reference for individual masons and prospective masons seeking educational opportunities. 

Exchange and Dissemination of Educational Materials - The USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) also seek to identify Masonic educational courses developed by committee members that are offered on a routine basis (i.e., once or more annually).  United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc. has a framework agreement for the exchange and dissemination of Masonic education materials.  If your consistory has developed educational content, please consider sharing it with other United Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, PHA Inc. Academy Schools of Instruction under the terms of the framework agreement.

Collection of Improvements and Translations of Schools created under the Academy offerings including translations for addition to the collection of materials available for exchange under the framework agreement. 

Develop operating procedures for planning and delivering Masonic Course Instruction – The operating procedures will be available on the USC Education & Development Department (U.S.C.E.D) website to guide member orients.