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Shai Reshef wants you to go to college - FOR FREE.
As the Founder of University of the People (UoPeople) Reshef decided to commit his fortune -- made when he sold a for-profit educational-services firm to Kaplan in 2005 -- to opening a tuition-free, online-only, open-source university.
Here's an overview of the school from their website:
University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university-level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education.
University of the People will charge tiny registration and exam fees ($15 to $100) and rely on volunteer professors and open-source content. Hundreds of students on five continents have enrolled, and Reshef hopes his university will serve as a global model for how to educate a new generation.
We spoke to Shai at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative where he announced the school's commitment that over a three year period, UoPeople will accept 250 qualified Haitian students to study online with their peers around the world, utilizing the institution's resources to earn an Associate's Degree in either Business Administration or Computer Science.
It's particularly significant because following January’s earthquake, 28 of Haiti’s 32 major universities were completely destroyed and the four remaining were severely damaged.
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