Dear Khaled,

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Audra M. Watson has been appointed as our new Dean of Education. Her vast experience, credentials and accomplishments will take the Department of Education through this period of growth and all that is to come.  I also want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. James Fraser for his outstanding service as Education Dean from its inception.  

Audra serves as the Director of Teaching Fellowships at the Institute for Citizens and Scholars in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously she was the Executive Director of Teacher Development at the NYC Department of Education. Audra earned her master’s degree from Columbia Teachers College, and a doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center.

In honor of World Refugee Day last month, I took part in an online panel discussion about the plight of refugees along with two of our students, Kateryna G. from Ukraine and Zakia Q. from Afghanistan. The panel discussion was hosted by SAP which has granted close to $500,000 for refugees to enroll at UoPeople. In addition, the university has received a $240,000 grant from the Oak Foundation for our Ukrainian scholarship initiative. I want to thank SAP, the Oak Foundation, and our many other donors for their generous support of UoPeople’s efforts to provide hope for a better future to thousands of refugees around the world.  

Below you can read the latest news about the university, including UoPeople being named as one of the Global Top 100 Most Innovative Universities along with Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge. In addition, UoPeople won The Changemaker award in this year’s Adobe Experience Maker Awards competition.

All my best for a wonderful summer,

Shai Reshef

Founder & President

University of the People

UOPEOPLE IN THE MEDIA

UoPeople Named a Top Innovative Global University  UoPeople has been ranked as one of the Global Top 100 Most Innovative Universities for 2022. The University Business story noted that the rankings focus on institutions that create the most value for society and the future.

The 10 Best Distance-Learning Institutes to Look Out For in 2022  The Education Magazine named UoPeople as one of the best online education institutions in the world. The magazine described UoPeople as “offering quality tuition-free online education to more than 117,000 students around the globe.”

Behold the bold — announcing the 2022 Adobe Experience Maker Award winners UoPeople won The Changemaker award in this year’s Adobe Experience Maker Awards competition. The Changemaker award is one of 13 global categories that recognize the individuals, companies and teams for their achievements and their innovative use of Adobe Experience Cloud technologies.

E-learning Refugees Passport for Universities and Labor Market  “E-learning is the perfect solution to provide university education to refugees,” according to a story in Alkhaleej, a prominent Middle East news outlet. The article includes an interview with UoPeople Ukrainian refugee student Yaroslava Simonenko.

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