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We are delighted to invite you to the next event in our Innovative Universities Global Webinar series where renowned founders and leaders of innovative universities share their experiences and success stories.
Missed the last one? Find the recording here.

This time, we are delighted to welcome Ben Nelson Founder and CEO of Minerva Project and the Chancellor of Minerva University.

Please join us to learn more:

Minerva University: How to build an effective university when the system trains people to do things wrong

Thursday, December 14th, 2023,
5 p.m. – 6 p.m. CET
Register here!

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!

Abstract:
Empirical evidence demonstrates that universities are among the least effective organizations in their purported goal of educating learners. The measures which universities themselves use to certify knowledge acquisition demonstrate that students do not retain what they supposedly learn a mere few months after that certification. To fix this problem, new universities must be built with radically different processes, procedures, and incentive systems and existing universities must be reformed along similar lines. But how do you accomplish that when practically everyone in the system (and those outside of it) were trained to believe in ineffective practices?