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How to Build a Global Citizen
What is Minerva University's recipe for building global citizens? Find out in this new LearningWell article featuring President Magee, Dean of Faculty Dollie Davis, alumna Ezza Naveed, and Board Secretary Michael Horn.
How to Reduce Cultural Conflict on Campus
Too often colleges look to policies and procedures for solutions to reducing cultural conflict on campus. Minerva University President Mike Magee proposes global living experiences and innovative pedagogy to foster empathy and understanding on campus.
What’s Your Why Podcast: Preparing Global Leaders: A Conversation with President Mike Magee
In this podcast episode, Minerva President Magee reflects on the need to create racially and economically diverse school environments and the importance of helping students build skills for civil discourse.
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Tokyo Governor Highlights Minerva University's Innovation in Major Policy Speech
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, in her annual policy address to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, highlighted plans to collaborate with Minerva University. She shared a blueprint to transform education in Tokyo's high schools.
Students Lead Global Dialogue on AI in Education
Minerva University's student organization AI Consensus examines how AI can be used for the good of education.
Nikkei Journalists Highlight Minerva University’s “New Model for Developing Global Citizens”
Minerva Featured for “Solving Global Societal Issues with Local Insights” in Nikkei Report
An article in Nikkei, Japan’s national newspaper, highlights Minerva University for solving global problems from a local perspective. It features an interview with Hiromi Sakae, Minerva’s director of partnerships in Japan
Forbes Magazine Names Minerva University as Leader in AI-Era Education
Forbes Magazine features Minerva University as one of the “Top Schools Preparing Students for Future Careers” in the age of AI.
Minerva University Students Work to Ignite Innovation in the Public Sector: Creating a Community Platform for Poland
Three Minerva University students have launched a community platform to empower Poland's next generation of leaders, creating a space where innovators connect, exchange ideas, and work with experts to ignite scientific, economic and political progress.
Minerva University Celebrates 2nd Rhodes Scholar in Two Years: Brittany Dick Will Pursue a Master in Philosophy at Oxford
Minerva University is celebrating the naming of its second student in two years to be honored as a Rhodes Scholar. Brittany Dick won the prestigious fully paid program to pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford.
Students Chronicle Global Journeys with 'One Day' Documentary Series
Minerva University students Stephanie Froebel and Ethan Willick direct the “One Day” video series, chronicling activities of students over four years.
Minerva University Announces Flexible Graduate Programs in Decision Making and Applied Analytics for Students Around the World
Minerva University has responded to requests from professionals around the world with a unique virtual, part-time Master of Science in Decision Making and Applied Analytics (MDA).
When non-standardization and IB education meet
Maeil Business Newspaper
Learn more about the innovative education system at Minerva University!
How to Build a Global Citizen
LearningWell
What is Minerva University's recipe for building global citizens? Find out in this new LearningWell article featuring President Magee, Dean of Faculty Dollie Davis, alumna Ezza Naveed, and Board Secretary Michael Horn.
What’s Your Why Podcast: Preparing Global Leaders: A Conversation with President Mike Magee
What's Your Why
In this podcast episode, Minerva President Magee reflects on the need to create racially and economically diverse school environments and the importance of helping students build skills for civil discourse.
How to Reduce Cultural Conflict on Campus
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Too often colleges look to policies and procedures for solutions to reducing cultural conflict on campus. Minerva University President Mike Magee proposes global living experiences and innovative pedagogy to foster empathy and understanding on campus.
Class Disrupted Podcast: The Possibilities & Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
The 74 Million
AI expert and Minerva University senior Irhum Shafkat joins Michael Horn and Diane Tavenner to discuss where the technology is going.
Interview: Universities must do more to cultivate future's problem solvers
Korea JoongAng Daily
Minerva University President Magee and Oh sat down for an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily during the Kim Dae-jung Peace Forum in Shinan, South Jeolla, to discuss the roles and responsibilities of universities.
OPINION: What The Phone Book Challenge Teaches Educators About ChatGPT
Inside Higher Ed
How can educators make the most of ChatGPT? Use it for helping students talk through concepts and practice reasoning and critique, advises Minerva Professor Patrick D. Watson.
Podcast: How Can Higher Education Better Prepare Today's Youth for Life?
Quetico Coaching and Consulting
Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity Podcast with Jeff Ilker
OPINION: What History Tells Us About the Affirmative Action Ruling
The Messenger
The Milliken ruling changed the social fabric of our nation.
OPINION: Want To Save The Beleaguered English Major? Abandon It.
The Hechinger Report
Higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years
Minerva University incubates ethical AI for the greater good of the world
Digital Journal
The Masason Foundation/Minerva University AI Research Lab is a collaborative AI research and start-up incubation program for undergraduate students.
Minerva University AI Research Lab Turns Concepts into Startups
Government Technology
The Minerva University AI Research Lab has brought together groups of students to create and pitch their own AI tools, with an emphasis on addressing the ethical and technical concerns about the technology.
Innovation at Minerva University
Getting Smart
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Mike Magee, the president of Minerva University.
PIE Chat with Mike Magee, Minerva University
The PIE News
Minerva was founded back in 2012, and so the big question The PIE has for Mike Magee is what the next ten years holds for this unique institution.
Imagine We Are Starting a University Now
Inside Higher Ed
It is rare in these days that a new university starts with the opportunity to break the mold of centuries gone by.
Student Input Key to Making Online Courses Effective
Government Technology
Through student-faculty discussions about how synchronous online courses should look, educators at Minerva University hope to use the science of learning to improve virtual learning.
California's Ban on Gas-Powered Cars/Minerva University/Western Neighborhoods in SF
KALW Public Media
Minerva President, Mike Magee, shares how far Minerva University has come since 2014 and his vision for Minerva's future.
The Top 100 Universities in the World Ranked by Real Impact
University Business
Minerva dethrones several traditional powers, while a few unexpected institutions rise in other categories.
President Series: A Look at Minerva, the World’s Most Innovative University
University Business
New President Mike Magee shares its story, secrets to success and what makes the institution so unique.
Minerva Comes of Age, Hoping It’s Not Too Late
Times Higher Education
Minerva University finds early success with online teaching in local environments worldwide, but fears higher education may already have lost the public.
Minerva University, Formerly the Minerva Schools at KGI, Gains Accreditation
Keck Graduate Institute
Minerva University’s accreditation is the culmination of an eight-year process where WSCUC carefully examined every aspect of its programs and operation.
Minerva, Higher Ed Outsider, Is Now Fully Accredited
Inside Higher Ed
The unabashed “Ivy League alternative,” birthed from an investor-backed start-up, gains a very traditional stamp of approval.
How to Go to College During a Pandemic
New York Times
Students at Minerva spend four years entirely online. Is this the future of higher education?
The future of education or just hype? The rise of Minerva, the world's most selective university
The Guardian
How Minerva can offer a template for universities shifting their courses online due to coronavirus.
Creating a University From Scratch
Stanford Social Innovation Review
How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future.
The studytuber Jade Bowler, aka Unjaded Jade and her virtual uni: no campus, no wild parties
The Times
Having finished her first year of Minerva, British student Jade Bowler has “learned more in and out of the classroom than in any other year of her life”.
Higher Ed’s Coronavirus Opportunity
Wall Street Journal
Don’t treat the shutdown as a temporary problem. Seize it as a chance to pursue innovation.
Commentary: COVID-19’s education revolution - where going digital is just half the battle
Channel News Asia
The sudden shift to distance learning provides us with the opportunity to reimagine how and what we teach.
Uncharted Territory: A Guide to Reimagining Higher Education
Stanford d.school
See how Minerva is challenging the status quo in Stanford d.school’s guide of colleges who are reimagining the world of higher education.
What will the future of higher education look like?
ESADE
Founder and CEO Ben Nelson explains why and how Minerva has transformed and improved the world of higher education.
Universities ‘poorly set up’ for continuing education
Times Higher Education
While traditional higher education institutions are slow to adapt what and how they teach, Minerva continually innovates on curriculum effectiveness through student feedback and more.
Opinion: 18 Predictions for 2018 and Beyond
PBS NewsHour
In a PBS article on predictions for 2018 and beyond, Minerva is named the “skills-oriented” institution incorporating technology to reinvent education.
Minerva: The Intentional University
Getting Smart
Getting Smart co-founder Tom Vander Ark takes an in-depth look at the strides Minerva has taken to fulfill its mission of “nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world” since the institution’s inception.
Minerva Claims ‘Learning Gain’ Victory Over Universities
Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education’s David Matthews discusses Minerva’s recent CLA+ scores: “the average CLA+ score of Minerva’s students ‘was higher than the score of senior graduating classes at every other university and college that administered the test.’”
Three Years in: Minerva’s Founder on For Profits, Selectivity and his Critics
EdSurge
In this interview, Minerva Founder Ben Nelson discusses the struggles with creating a university from scratch, dispels the myths, and explains how Minerva’s curriculum lets students craft their own education.
Young Universities: How to Start from Scratch
Times Higher Education
These universities mark the new age in liberal arts education. Among them, Minerva challenges traditional concepts of university curriculum through its innovative approach to learning.
Reinventing Schools: Some Champions in Our Backyard
World Economic Forum
Among other emerging alternatives to the traditional education model, Minerva is reforming the education sphere through its decentralized university program where students earn their bachelor’s degree while living and learning around the world.
Class Action: Minerva Enrolls First-Ever Freshman Class
NBC Bay Area
The San Francisco startup promises an Ivy League-caliber education for a tuition of $10,000.