Founded in 1963, The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning offered from its inception a curriculum of high-school, college and advanced degree courses in a wide variety of fields. Most importantly, it also offers a specialized program developed by Headmaster Charles Xavier that teaches young mutants how to use and control their powers. Situated on the ancestral Xavier estate outside of Salem Center, New York, the school is also home and haven to its students, its very remoteness providing insulation and protection from a fearful world. However, it is still near enough to town and to New York City that supervised field trips are frequently planned, and students can find much in the way of "normal life" nearby.

Mutatis Mutandis, the Online Division of the Xavier Institute, was founded in 1997 as a concerted effort to use the universal communication potential of the Internet to bring the benefits of the school's curriculum and community to mutants living around the world, affording them the same opportunities for education and growth that Xavier's students have enjoyed for years, but without the need to relocate to Westchester.

Mutatis Mutandis is divided into departments containing online courses that present material in both textual and graphical format. Instructors were selected by Professor Xavier to be the most knowledgeable about and relevant to their syllabus. In some cases, virtual instructors were developed from Cerebro's records when the original lecturers were unavailable or deceased. The result is a learning experience unmatched in the mutant world.

Like the actual Institute, Mutatis Mutandis has a training facility or "Danger Room" that presents computer-constructed scenarios which provides students with instruction in using and expanding their powers, and tests students' control over their mutant gifts. Students of the Online Division can thereby receive the training they need to protect themselves and those around them from potentially dangerous outbursts of mutant energy. Those trainees with high enough scores may also be selected for placement with the Institute's field division, the X-Men.

Mutatis Mutandis also strives to create the community and sense of family that are hallmarks of the Xavier Institute among its web-based students. Chat rooms and Discussion Forums are available, as are relevant Links and Webrings, allwing students to reach out to each other and to similar entities across the globe.

Our sections may be accessed via the department links in the menu on the top frame. Roll over each department button for a brief list of the courses. The full course catalogue is as follows:

History Dept:

  1. Historical Archiving - all the issue reviews, broken down by Ongoing Series, LS, Oneshots, Cancelled Series
  2. Short Histories of... - a class with summaries of X-teams' books
  3. X-Overs - crossover writeups and descriptions
  4. MM Continuity Quiz - a panel that is an error, quiz is to ID it and the issue that established the now-violated continuity - NEED HELP WITH MORE QUIZZES!

Life Sciences:

  1. Cerebra's Files - the character bios
  2. Mutant Powers - a theory developed by CharleyX about mutations with its associated discussion topic
  3. Family Trees - who's related to whom and how
  4. Exobiology - writeups on the various aliens and other races the X-Men have met
  5. Genetic Engineering - help Emma create her new teacher's pet with a Mr. Potato-head interface. Gallery upload and ratings available

Social Science:

  1. Journalism - the news board and archives
  2. Current Events - short blurbs about what's going on in the last arc or two of each active book
  3. Geography - under construction - need help - writeups on the places the X-Men have gone to (and what the mission/result was)
  4. Living With a Physical Mutation - a presentation by Nightcrawler and its associated discussions
  5. Foreign Languages - currently Doopspeak (translations) and French (a real course with class ranking)

Fine Arts:

  1. Gallery - including covers and other images
  2. Mutants on Film - writeups and bios of the X-Men movies and TV shows
  3. Mutant Melodies - Song parodies
  4. Fan Art - part of the Gallery, open for submissions

English:

  1. Discussion Forum - general discussion
  2. Fan Fiction - HTML stories plus a posting board
  3. Humor - a subset of fanfic (HTML)
  4. Glossary - being revised completely
  5. Editorials - editorial columns by staff writers

Physics:

  1. Destiny Prophecies - slightly interactive, mostly informational course about Destiny's journals
  2. Thermodynamics - under construction
  3. Engineering - writeups on tech, magical weapons and other objects in the X-Universe - need help finishing!!!
  4. Temporal Mechanics - writeups on all alternate realities - Days of Future Past, Ultimate, Mutant X etc. Issue reviews, bios, other info

Phys Ed:

  1. Martial Arts - writeup of actual fighting styles, weapons etc plus analyses of fights scanned from issues
  2. Danger Room - Games - almost ready for release
  3. Smackdown - board to post fighting tournaments etc plus archives
  4. RPG: Academy X: Cassidy Keep - a new roleplaying game on the message board, using known and original characters in a classroom/training setting.

In addition, the top menu contains buttons for this page, our Faculty information page, Accreditation we have received, the campus bookstore (through Amazon.com, AllPosters.com and CafePress) and signing / viewing the Yearbook (guestbook). The full list of discussion fora may be accessed from the Astral Plane icon on the blue right sidebar that appears on this and most other pages. Search, Links and Webrings are also in the right sidebar. The left sidebar contains the Calendar of upcoming comics releases and TV shows.

We are always looking for new faculty and students, so please check out the General Discussion forum to search for open projects, and contact us there.

Finally, I am CharleyX, Professor Xavier's online agent, programmed with all of his knowledge (and a little more patience). I am here to assist students in finding their way around Mutatis Mutandis. I also offer hints and extra information, which you can access by clicking on me when I appear.

All together, we at Mutatis Mutandis and the Xavier Institute are committed to bringing you the very best in mutant education. We hope you enjoy the experience.