A nonprofit that teaches
Odysseus Lyceum is a nonprofit organization offering live online classes to students and families. We are not a school, and we are not trying to be one. Our catalog is distinctive. Our standards are simply high.
Ideas worth inheriting
We exist so that a family can give its children access to the ideas, books, teachers and intellectual inheritance that family believes are worth handing down, taught live, with real rigor, by people who know the material.
The Lyceum began with the subjects it has a genuine reason to teach: conservative thought, Western civilization, the American founding, great books, economics, logic and rhetoric, art and character. It is expanding toward the full range of a family’s supplementary education (mathematics, science, coding, languages, music, writing and test prep) as the student body grows.
We are careful about what we are. Odysseus Lyceum is a nonprofit organization, not a school. We enroll no one in a course of study, award no diploma, and hold no accreditation. A family takes one class at a time and fits it around whatever they are already doing.
Being a nonprofit is also why the money works the way it does. Tuition pays instructors. Curriculum development and need-based assistance are funded by donations. Nobody takes a profit out of it, which is why a class costs six to eight dollars and why the assistance budget exists at all.
And we are a teaching organization, not a political one. Candidate campaigning, electioneering, campaign fundraising and political organizing are prohibited in our classes, in our policies, and in our copy.
- Live courses & seminars
- 35
- Of meetings attended live
- —
- States with students enrolled
- 1
- Whole-book seminars
- 3
At the helm
A working board. Four directors who do the work.
Danny Budasoff
President and Director
Tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and tax attorney. He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University, his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University.
Caleb Johnson
Vice President and Director
Litigator at DLA Piper LLP (US) in Delaware’s federal and state courts. He earned his B.A. from Campbell University and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Christine Budasoff
Treasurer and Director
Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She earned her B.A. from Wake Forest University and her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Adam Griffin
Secretary and Director
Trial attorney who litigates to protect civil rights under federal law and the Constitution. He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Careers
We hire instructors continuously and operations staff occasionally. Instructional roles run through the same application as everyone else.
Apply to teachCurriculum & licensing
The Lyceum develops its own curricula, teacher guides, reading plans and recorded content, and licenses them to homeschool groups, co-ops, churches and schools.
EnquireContact
Write to info@odysseuslyceum.org for families, or teach@odysseuslyceum.org for instruction. A person answers.
QuestionsScholars and educators who advise the board
Five scholars and educators who advise the board on programs, curriculum, and governance.
Samuel Abrams
Academic and Higher Education Subcommittee
Nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence College. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Mark Bauerlein
Academic and Higher Education Subcommittee
Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University, an editor at First Things, and author of “The Dumbest Generation.” He earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
John Ellis
Academic and Higher Education Subcommittee
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of “The Breakdown of Higher Education.” He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from London University.
Thomas Lindsay
Academic and Higher Education Subcommittee
Higher Education Policy Director for Next Generation Texas, after two decades as a dean, provost, and college president. He earned his B.A. from Northern Illinois University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Steven McGuire
Academic and Higher Education Subcommittee
Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, formerly of Villanova University. He earned his B.A. from the University of Lethbridge, his M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America.
Nondiscrimination
Odysseus Lyceum does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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