Tuition-Free College Is Already Here

Shai Reshef is the President of University of the People
(UoPeople). Reshef has over 25 years of experience in the
international education market. Reshef has been widely recognized
for his work with UoPeople, including being awarded the 2023
Yidan Prize for Educational Development, referred to as the Nobel
Prize for Education; an honorary doctorate from the Open
University, named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People
in Business; awarded an Ashoka fellowship; joined UN-GAID as a
High-level Adviser; granted an RSA Fellowship; selected by The
Huffington Post as the Ultimate Game Changer in Education;
nominated as one of Wired Magazine’s 50 People Changing the
World; and selected as a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy
Magazine.


UoPeople is the first non-profit, tuition-free, American,
accredited, online university. Dedicated to opening access to
higher education globally, UoPeople helps high school graduates
overcome financial, geographic, political, and personal
constraints keeping them from college studies. UNESCO estimates
that by the year 2025, there will be nearly 100 million young
people unable to find seats in traditional universities. UoPeople
believes that access to higher education is a basic right which
promotes world peace and global economic development; and it is
committed to providing those young people a quality higher
education – tuition-free.


Links:


https://www.uopeople.edu/about/leadership-team/shai-reshef/


https://www.ted.com/talks/shai_reshef_an_ultra_low_cost_college_degree?language=en


https://www.unesco.org/en/higher-education


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