The founding educators of Carolina Online Institute provided the vision,  leadership,and a portion of the initial funding for the incorporation of the Carolina Online Institution, a distance-learning institution. It was founded for the purpose of providing a pathway for success and leadership for adult learners. The focus of Carolina Online Institute is to bring about a quality distance-learning adult career institution.

The institute focused on providing adults with a convenient and quality online learning environment to meet their career education and professional development goals. Carolina Online Institute realized that adults need convenient online learning services to meet their professional development needs, and to be able to acquire academic credentials in a way that would limit interference within their daily lives. We develop new strategies, acquire new knowledge, and discover new talents to provide a solution to those issues.