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Dr. George RuppPresident’s Council Member,President Emeritus, Columbia University“Based on my work in universities and on my currentengagement with the International Baccalaureate, I ampleased to support the urgent and timely efforts ofUniversity of the People. As the son of immigrants,cross-cultural understanding has been a focus of myintellectual and personal interests for my whole life.Through the International Rescue Committee and alsothe Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of InternationalEducation, I have had the opportunity to focus on theconnections between education and internationaldevelopment, and I am therefore honored to be involvedwith UoPeople in working to provide access toeducational opportunities for the neediest studentsaround the globe.”I'M DELIGHTEDTO SUPPORT THEURGENT ANDTIMELY EFFORTSOF UOPEOPLE21

LEADERSHIPBOARD OFTRUSTEESMr. Ashok Chandrasekhar, ChairmanMr. Chandrasekhar is a Partner and Head of the International Corporateand Securities Department of Goldfarb, Seligman & Co., and a memberof the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Chandrasekhar specializes inrepresenting clients in the high-tech sector and has been involved inmany large transactions in technology companies and in hundreds ofprivate equity transactions. Mr. Chandrasekhar holds a J.D. from theNYU School of Law and a BA in English Literature from Yale University.The Honorable Christine M. DurhamJudge Durham retired from the Utah Supreme Court in 2017, afterserving for 35 years, ten of those as Chief Justice. She now works onissues affecting access to justice and diversity in the legal profession,and is a member of Zimmerman Booher, an appellate law firm. She isa graduate of Wellesley College and Duke University Law School andis an Emerita member of the Duke University Board of Trustees.Professor Daniel J. H. GreenwoodProf. Greenwood is on the faculty of Hofstra University’s School of Law.He has been published widely on the topics of corporate finance,business, torts, and the liberal state. After studying at Harvard College,Hebrew University, and Yale Law School, Professor Greenwoodpracticed mergers and acquisition law in New York. He began hisacademic career at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Lawbefore returning to his native city of New York.

Dr. Gabriel HawawiniDr. Hawawini is Professor of Finance and former Dean of INSEAD. He ison the advisory board of MIT Sloan and Carnegie Mellon University inQatar. He was a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Wharton School ofthe University of Pennsylvania, and taught at New York University,Columbia University, and the City University of New York where hereceived the Presidential Award for Distinguished Faculty Scholarship.He is the Chair of UoPeople's Advancement Committee.Ms. Pascaline Servan-SchreiberMs. Servan-Schreiber acts as the Vice President for BusinessDevelopment, in addition to her seat on the Board, helping UoPeopleoffer its educational services to new populations, including refugees,as well as engage in meaningful partnerships. Ms. Servan-Schreiberhas more than thirty years of experience as a senior businessdevelopment executive in media, publishing, internet startups, andtechnology, including Apple Computer. She received her MBA fromINSEAD and her degree in Computer Science from Brown University.Mr. Shai ReshefMr. Reshef is the President of University of the People. An educationalentrepreneur, President Reshef has over 25 years of experience in theinternational education market. From 1989 to 2005, he served asChairman of the Kidum Group, an educational services company.Between 2001 and 2004, Reshef also chaired KIT eLearning, the onlinelearning partner of the University of Liverpool and the first onlineuniversity outside of the United States.23

Dr. John SextonChairman of the President’s Council“Ten years ago, Shai Reshef and I joined togetheraround the dream of providing a quality universityeducation at no cost to students around the globewho otherwise would not have been able to earn adegree. Today, for thousands, that dream is a reality.UoPeople brings quality education to underservedstudents around the world. In just a decade, its impacthas been enormous. But we are just beginning.The President’s Council, which I chair, is an all-starclass of distinguished university presidents, each ofwhom has committed himself or herself to spreadingthe impact of UoPeople and to ensuring the qualityof the education its students receive.It has been my privilege to be part of the effort. I lookforward to continuing our work in the service ofopening the doors of possibility and bringing highereducation to students around the globe.”

LEADERSHIPPRESIDENT'SCOUNCILPresident Emeritus John Sexton, ChairmanDr. John Sexton is President Emeritus of New York Universityand the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at NYU. He servedas President of NYU from 2001 to 2015.He joined the NYU LawSchool faculty in 1981, was named Dean of the Law School in1988, and served as Dean until 2001. Dr. Sexton’s contributionsinclude the creation of the NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghaicampuses as part of creating a Global Network University.Former Chancellor Nicholas B. DirksDr. Nicholas B. Dirks was the 10th Chancellor of the Universityof California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of History andAnthropology. Before coming to Berkeley, Dirks was theExecutive Vice President for the Arts and Sciences and Deanof the faculty at Columbia University. He is the author of manybooks, including “The Hollow Crown”, “Castes of Mind”, “Scandalof Empire”, and “Autobiography of an Archive”.Rector Emerita Michèle Gendreau-MassalouxDr. Gendreau-Massaloux has extensive educational leadershipexperience, including having served as Rector of the Academyof Paris, Chancellor of the Universities, and Rector of the AgenceUniversitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), which associates morethan 800 universities around the world.President Emerita Catharine Bond HillPresident Hill is a Managing Director of Ithaka S R’s researchand consulting initiatives to broad access to higher education,reduce costs, and improve student outcomes. From 2006 to2016, she served as President of Vassar College. Under herleadership, Vassar reinstated need-blind admissions andreplaced loans with grants for low-income families. Shegraduated from Williams College, earned bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees at Oxford University, and a doctorate ineconomics at Yale University.25

Director Devang KhakharFormer Principal Sir Timothy O’SheaDirector Khakhar became the Director of the Indian Instituteof Technology (IIT) Bombay in January 2009. He joined IITBombay in 1987 where he previously served asProfessor-in-Charge of IIT Bombay’s Continuing EducationProgram, as Head of the Department of ChemicalEngineering, and Dean of Faculty Affairs. He received hisB.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and his Ph.D.from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Professor O’Shea, FREng FAcSS FRSE, was Principal andVice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh from 2002 to2017. A specialist in machine learning, he is a graduate of theUniversities of Sussex and Leeds. He holds honoraryprofessorships with the Open University and Edinburgh. SirTimothy is Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Hewas awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s 2008 New Year’sHonours List in recognition of his services to higher education.Vice Chancellor Emeritus Abdul Waheed KhanPresident Eduardo PadrónVice Chancellor Khan was the President of Indira GandhiNational Open University, India. He is the Founder ofBuniyaad Trust, a grassroots level educational developmentorganization aimed at enhancing access to quality educationin rural schools in India. Vice Chancellor Emeritus Khan waspreviously Assistant Director General for Communicationand Information at UNESCO, Paris. He is President ofKnowledgeville by The Learning Firm in Ontario, Canada.President Padrón is the President of Miami Dade College. In2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the PresidentialMedal of Freedom for being a voice for access and inclusionin higher education. Six American Presidents have selectedhim to serve on posts of national prominence, in additionto serving on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations,RC 2020, White House Fellows Southern Region SelectionPanel (Chair), and Achieving the Dream.President Emerita Jane McAuliffePresident Emerita Pamela Trotman ReidPresident McAuliffe is Senior Advisor to the Librarian ofCongress. Previously, she was President of Bryn MawrCollege, Dean of Georgetown University, and a Professor atUniversity of Toronto and Emory University. McAuliffe haspublished extensively on Islam and the Qur’an, including thesix-volume “Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an” (2006). She isPresident Emerita of the American Academy of Religion, anda member of the American Philosophical Society, theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council onForeign Relations.President Reid is Senior Scholar of the Merrill PalmerSkillman Institute at Wayne State University and PresidentEmerita of University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut), whereshe established the School of Pharmacy. She is a scholar ofgender and racial socialization. She currently serves on theAmerican Psychological Association’s Board of Publication& Communication. Previously she held administrativepositions at City University of NY, University of Michigan,Roosevelt and Unviersity of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

President Emeritus George RuppPresident Emeritus Stephen Joel TrachtenbergPresident Rupp is chair of the board of the InternationalBaccalaureate Organization, an adjunct professor atColumbia University, and a founding principal at NEXT:Network for Executive Transition. Dr. Rupp previously servedas President of the International Rescue Committee, ofColumbia and Rice Universities, and as the John Lord O’BrianProfessor of Divinity and Dean of the Harvard DivinitySchool. Dr. Rupp earned an AB from Princeton, a BD fromYale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Harvard.President Trachtenberg served as George WashingtonUniversity’s 15th President from 1988 to 2007 and asUniversity Professor until 2017. Prior to GW, he served as thePresident of the University of Hartford. Previously,Trachtenberg was VP for Academic Services and Dean of theCollege of Liberal Arts at Boston University and the SpecialAssistant to the US Education Commissioner, Departmentof Health, Education and Welfare. He writes extensivelyabout higher education.President Emerita Judith ShapiroPresident Emeritus Torsten WieselPresident Shapiro was the President of Barnard Collegefrom 1994 to 2008 and President of the Teagle Foundationfrom 2013 to 2018. She serves on the boards of Reacting tothe Past, Scholars at Risk, Phi Beta Kappa, and theAssociation of American Colleges and Universities. Shapirois President and Professor of Anthropology Emerita atBarnard College and Professor of Anthropology Emerita atBryn Mawr College, where she served as a faculty memberand then Provost.President Wiesel was President of The Rockefeller Universityfrom 1991 to 1998. Dr. Wiesel is currently co-director of theShelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain andBehavior at Rockefeller and serves as an internationaladvisor to research institutions and universities worldwide.In 1981 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinewith David Hubel for their discoveries concerninginformation processing in the visual system.President Emerita Joan Hinde StewartVice Chancellor Emeritus Sir Colin LucasPresident Stewart received a Ph.D. in French from YaleUniversity. She served from 2003 to 2016 as the nineteenth(and first woman) President of Hamilton College. Joan hasheld fellowships at the National Endowment for theHumanities and the National Humanities Center, amongothers, and has published and lectured widely.President’s Council Member EmeritusVice Chancellor Emeritus Sir Colin Lucas was the ViceChancellor of the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2004 andwas latterly Warden of Rhodes Trust, the charitableorganization responsible for bringing some of the world'sfinest scholars to Oxford. During his seven years as ViceChancellor, Sir Lucas led the modernization of Oxford andsaw it ranked fifth in the world, outranked only by fourleading US institutions.27

Dear friends,In 2009, we began an Education Revolution todemonstrate that higher education can be affordableand accessible, without compromising quality.Looking back on ten years of UoPeople, theaccomplishment of which I am most proud is theexceptional quality of our educational offerings.While we opened our “doors” to students beginningin 2009, we were just under five years away fromaccreditation. I am incredibly grateful to thosestudents, to our deans, to our academic advisoryboard members, and to our instructors who eagerlyjumped on board as we embarked on our mission toredefine higher education.We have constantly innovated to improve in any andevery way possible. By recruiting former presidentsfrom universities such as New York University,Columbia, Oxford, Vassar, and UC Berkeley, we receivecounsel from distinguished leaders from around theglobe. By engaging deans from establishments suchas Princeton and NYU, instructors from all ranks ofuniversities in the US and abroad, and stellaracademic leadership, we ensure the highest qualityeducation for our students. By partnering with NYU,UC Berkeley, and the University of Edinburgh, weprovide our outstanding students with theopportunity to explore and further their academicstudies. By adding the most in-demand degreeprograms around the globe, we prepare students forthe job market, while also ensuring they receive awell-rounded, liberal arts education.In our tenth year, we are extremely excited to havepartnered with the International Baccalaureate, theforemost leader in international primary andsecondary education, to provide a Master’s inEducation. We are delighted to have launched theworld’s most cost-effective M.Ed. program to addressthe shortage of qualified educators around the globe,and to improve the quality of education worldwide.I am indebted to our academics, who shoulder theday-to-day responsibility of educating our students;to our 11,000 volunteers who conscientiouslysupport the varied needs of our students; and to allof our supporters who have helped createtuition-free degree programs of the highest caliber.To all of you, I thank you for doing your part to makethis dream a reality.Kind Regards,DAVID H. COHENVice President & Dean of the Faculty Emeritus for Arts & Sciences, Columbia UniversityProvost, University of the People

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REVOLUTIONARYFACT #297% of UoPeople studentsare likely to recommend theUniversity to others

ACADEMICPROGRAMSBUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONHEALTH SCIENCEThe Business Administration Program offersstudents an in-depth exploration of businessadministration and economics. The program isgeared towards students seeking to master theskills needed in managerial roles in both publicand private organizations. Courses are designedto develop critical-thinking and analytical skills,as well as to teach the concepts vital in the worldof business today. Instructors from leadinguniversities worldwide and an internationalstudent body make this an exceptional,high-quality learning experience.The Health Science program takes aninterdisciplinary approach, drawing from manyareas of study including public health,healthcare, bioethics, and mental health.Students explore disease prevention, communityhealth, nutrition, and the operational intricaciesof different healthcare systems. The programemphasizes the knowledge, skills, and attitudesneeded to function in today’s complex,ever-evolving health care environment. Balancingtheory and practice, the Health Science programfocuses on understanding community and publichealth models and applying these theories to thereal world.COMPUTER SCIENCEMASTER OF EDUCATIONCourses in Computer Science teach the basics ofcomputation and programming languages.Students learn the skills to put this knowledgeinto practice, as well as the know-how to get themost out of hardware. The program places greatimportance on the mathematical knowledgeneeded for software design, development, andverification. The UoPeople Computer Scienceprogram also includes a wide range ofcoursework-based studies for programming,databases, networking, graphics, artificialintelligence, and more.UoPeople’s newest degree program, the Masterof Education (M.Ed.), is offered in partnership withthe International Baccalaureate (IB). Thisrevolutionary program aims to increase thenumber of highly-skilled and globally-mindededucators with an in-depth knowledge ofcurriculum, pedagogy, and assessment—for bothIB teachers and others. The curriculum reflectsthe IB’s approach to teaching and learning, so theprogram will also meet the needs of IB schoolsaround the world which are looking to recruitteachers familiar with IB pedagogy.31

programsBUSINESSADMINISTRATIONMaster of Business Administration (MBA)Today’s global economy requires leaders who excel ascollaborators and innovators. For many, a bachelor’sdegree is simply not enough. As such, there is greatdemand in the job market for MBA graduates.In response to this growing need, UoPeople establishedthe world’s most cost-effective MBA. UoPeople’s MBAprogram grants qualified candidates the opportunity tomaximize their potential and develop the competenciesneeded for advanced positions in business.The MBA program takes a hands-on approach to bothbusiness and community leadership. Students explorebehavioral and quantitative sciences in both theory andapplication, using advanced mathematics to analyzeproblems and interpret data. The program alsohighlights the importance of imaginative, innovative,and ethical problem-solving, in recognition of the impactbusiness decisions often have on humanity.With an added emphasis on effective writtencommunication, the MBA teaches the skills and attitudesneeded to reach personal and professional goals in theworld of industry, government, and nonprofits.

Associate of Sciencein Business Administration (AS-BA)Bachelor of Sciencein Business Administration (BS-BA)The associate program tackles the building blocksof business studies, such as macro- andmicro-economics, marketing strategies, ande-commerce. Students learn how to applyappropriate business models to decision-making,work effectively in a team environment, and bringethical reasoning to business practices. The programals

nities to build a global movement for local UoPeople touchpoints. This year we are also launching our largest undertaking yet: a University run by refugees, for refugees. UoPeople in Arabic will address the significant need for education for those displaced by the global refugee crisis. For our roughly 1,000 enrolled refugees and internally .