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June 2011 Newsletter | www.UoPeople.org


New York University's Groundbreaking Collaboration
UoPeople Proudly Accepts More Than 1,000 Students 
Introducing "Meet UoPeople's Students" Presentation 


Dear Friend,

I'm excited to share with you that University of the People has reached a very important and exciting milestone:  We have established a collaboration with New York University (NYU) to identify disadvantaged UoPeople students who are eligible for admission to one of the most selective institutions in the world - NYU Abu Dhabi.

This collaboration, as featured in The New York Times, is important since most of our students had no alternative to higher education before we opened the gates for them.  Now, the most successful may be able to further pursue their dreams by attending one of the best universities in the world.  

John Sexton, President of NYU, has shared his admiration of UoPeople in a statement regarding our collaboration, "We admire that UoPeople is seeking to bring higher education to so many of the world's disadvantaged, and we anticipate a productive collaboration between [UoPeople] and NYU in identifying exceptionally bright and ambitious young people worldwide who could join our Abu Dhabi campus." 

Our high performing students, who have studied for at least one year at UoPeople, and who meet the standards of admission to NYU, will be eligible to apply for admission to NYU Abu Dhabi.  Successful applicants who qualified would also be eligible for generous financial aid - enabling them to attend.

As we reach this collaboration milestone with NYU in the academic world, we also reach another, remarkable milestone: UoPeople has now proudly accepted over 1,000 students from more than 115 countries. 

We could not have done it without you, and appreciate your continued support. 

Warm regards,

Shai Reshef
Founder & President 
University of the People

 

UoPeople in the News: Groundbreaking Collaboration with NYU 


Partnership to Further Global Quest by N.Y.U.

By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: June 8, 2011

New York University, well on its way to becoming the first truly global university, is starting a new partnership with the University of the People, a unusual nonprofit online school offering free classes to students around the world.

With the collaboration, students who show exceptional promise after at least a year of studies with the University of the People could apply to N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus and be eligible for financial aid.

The University of the People, created two years ago by Shai Reshef, an Israeli entrepreneur, offers programs in business administration and computer science, using mostly volunteer professors and course materials available free online; it is not yet accredited. The programs have attracted 1,000 English-speaking students from 115 countries, including Haitians who have been living in tent cities since the earthquake in January 2010, Sudanese refugees, and a considerable number of students from China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam, university officials said.

“When I met Shai last year, I told him that we are so committed to his agenda that we have to be partners,” John Sexton, the president of N.Y.U. said in an interview. “Our mission is spreading our education and knowledge, and if we can find some amazing kids from sub-Saharan Africa or Haiti through this wonderful vehicle of the University of the People and set an example among elite schools with resources, so much the better.”

Mr. Sexton said there were no specific promises of slots for University of the People students, but he expected a few might be admitted to the Abu Dhabi campus in the entering class of 2012.

N.Y.U.’s highly selective campus there, paid for by Abu Dhabi, the richest of the United Arab Emirates, has just finished its first year of operations, with 150 students from 39 countries, including some from wealthy Emirati families and others who were raised in poverty. The university uses outside groups to scout for top students and flies hundreds of likely candidates to Abu Dhabi for weekend visits.

For next year’s entering class, Mr. Sexton said, N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi received 5,854 applications and offered admission to 196 students, or 3.3 percent. (By comparison, Harvard admitted 6 percent of its applicants this year, and 7 percent last year.) Although the cost of attending N.Y.U., whether in Washington Square or Abu Dhabi, is among the highest in the United States, at about $53,000 a year, the Persian Gulf campus offers generous financial aid.

“In Abu Dhabi, we’re able to give financial aid at the same level as places like Harvard and Princeton,” said Mr. Sexton, who announced this year that N.Y.U. planned to open a campus in Shanghai in 2013.

Several N.Y.U. faculty members and administrators have been working with the University of the People on a volunteer basis since it began. Russell Winer, chairman of the marketing department at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business, is chairman of the University of the People business administration department; Alexander Tuzhilin, a professor of information systems at the Stern School, serves as chairman of the University of the People computer science department; and Paul Affuso, an associate dean at the Stern School, is the University of the People’s chief financial officer.

Mr. Sexton said he hoped the collaboration would encourage more N.Y.U. faculty and graduate students to work with the online institution.

“It’s almost unbelievable,” Mr. Reshef said. “Most of our students had no alternative for higher education before we opened the gates for them, and now the most successful may be able to further pursue their dreams by attending one of the best universities in the world.”

A version of this article appeared in print on June 9, 2011, on page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: Partnership To Further Global Quest By N.Y.U..



 



 

Proudly Accepting more than 1,000 Students!  

Only approximately two short years from the date of our launch, and we have now reached the 1,000 student milestone - representing both our progress, as well as our sustainability. 

Our 1,000 accepted students hail from over 115 different countries - both developed and developing. The diversity of our students is one of our strengths, as students are able to receive a truly global experience. 

We are extremely proud to reach this milestone, and look forward to the day when we have 10,000 accepted students, and then 100,000 in the future.

Your support has helped us get this far, and we appreciate your continued support of our mission to democratize higher education globally.  

 

Introducing "Meet UoPeople's Students" Presentation  

UoPeople is proud to showcase our student-submitted quotes and pictures in our "Meet UoPeople's Students" Presentation, June 2011 Edition. 

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