Founder’s Message
Throughout my career, I have held to a single conviction: that the highest form of education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the cultivation of a mind capable of clarity, rigor, and creative synthesis. Across centuries, the passage from student to scholar has marked a profound intellectual threshold, defined not by credentials alone, but by the assumption of responsibility for one’s ideas.
In recent decades, however, that threshold has grown increasingly indistinct. The conditions under which students learn to test, shape, and publicly stand behind their work have weakened, even as academic signals and shortcuts have multiplied. Too often, genuine inquiry is either kept private and provisional – or rushed prematurely into forms that mimic scholarship without demanding its discipline.
What has been endangered is not talent, but formation: the slow, exacting process by which thought becomes accountable, expressive, and consequential.
I founded The Schola as an answer to that need.
Eva M Shin
Founder, The Schola
The Architecture of Our Mission
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The Principles
Learn more about Our PhilosophyA guide to our core beliefs and commitment to a different standard of scholarship.
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The Foundation
Discover the meaning of Our NameAn exploration of our name, schola, and the deep philosophical roots that anchor our work.
About Eva M Shin
She founded The Schola and its publisher, Veritaum, in 2016. Her professional background spans management consulting, investment banking, and journalism – experiences that shaped her perspective on the rigorous, analytical, and imaginative inquiry essential for excellence in any field. Drawing on her extensive experience teaching academic writing, she designed The Schola as a forum to serve that foundational moment of intellectual growth. Her own academic journey, with a BS from Cornell University and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, solidified her conviction that emerging scholars deserve a dedicated and rigorous platform. As the founder of Veritaum and the steward of The Schola, she continues to guide this mission.