Ben Nelson helped form which nonprofit undergraduate university program?
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Ben Nelson (businessman) Ben Nelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project, a company whose goal is to provide an Ivy League education at a fraction of the price. As the CEO of Minerva Project, Nelson partnered with Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont University Consortium, to form the Minerva Schools at KGI.
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Minerva Schools at KGI The Minerva Schools at KGI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit university program that was founded in partnership between the Minerva Project and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a member of the Claremont University Consortium. It offers both a four-year undergraduate program as well as two master's programs. Minerva’s founder, former Snapfish president Ben Nelson, has referred to it as "the first elite American university to be launched in a century." Larry Summers, former Harvard University President and United States Secretary of the Treasury, chaired its first advisory board, joined by Bob Kerrey, former Democratic senator from Nebraska and president of the New School.
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American Baptist College American Baptist College (also known as American Baptist Theological Seminary or ABTS) is a small, predominantly African American liberal arts college located in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1924, its predecessor in black Baptist education was Roger Williams University, a Nashville college begun in the late-19th century and closed in the early 20th century (Its campus is now occupied by Peabody College of Vanderbilt University). Upon full accreditation by the American Association of Bible Colleges, ABTS officially dropped use of the term "Theological Seminary" and renamed itself American Baptist College of ABTS. Recently, on March 25, 2013, the college was granted the honor of being named as a Historically Black College and University commonly referred to as an HBCU.
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Midland University Midland University is a private liberal arts college with an approximate enrollment of 1,400 students. The 33 acre academic and residential campus is located in Fremont, Nebraska, 25 mi northwest of Omaha, Nebraska. The university offers more than thirty undergraduate bachelor's degrees and three graduate master's degrees, including Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Education in Leadership, Master of Science: Adult and Organizational Learning, and Master of Athletic Training.
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Barlow Endowment The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition is a scholarship established in September 1983 through the generosity of Milton A. and Gloria Barlow. Motivated by their love of music, the Barlows presented a substantial gift to Brigham Young University, engendering and supporting excellence in musical composition through the university and the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications.
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Low-residency program A low-residency program (or limited residency program) is a form of education, normally at the university level, which involves some amount of distance education and brief on-campus or specific-site residencies—residencies may be one weekend or several weeks. These programs are most frequently offered by colleges and universities that also teach standard full-time courses on campus. There are numerous Master's degree programs in a wide range of content areas; one of the most popular limited residency degree programs is the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. The first such program was developed by Evalyn Bates and launched in 1963 at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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King University King University (formerly King College) is a private university in Bristol, Tennessee. Graduate programs are offered in business administration, nursing, and education. Founded in 1867, King is independently governed with covenant affiliations to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC).
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Student Organization for Black Unity The Student Organization for Black Unity was a group of African American students in North Carolina, United States led by Marxist thinker Nelson Johnson. Centered in Greensboro, it was formed in 1969, originally to stop the forced integration of black schools with white students so as to provide an educational environment for black students in which they would not be made to feel inferior to white people. The organization was an extension of the Black Power movement. The organization later extended its mandate, and advocated for the civil rights of all the people in the black community, at which point its name was changed to the Youth Organization for Black Unity by Roderick D. Bush.
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Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences The Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS or Weinberg College) is the largest of the twelve schools comprising Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was established in 1851 and today comprises 25 departments and many specialty programs.
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University of Mary Washington The University of Mary Washington is a public university in Virginia that focuses on undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences. The core of its main campus of roughly 4,000 mostly residential students in Fredericksburg, Virginia is the College of Arts and Sciences, which offers degrees in various liberal arts disciplines. The university began a BSN completion program in fall of 2014 to allow AS-prepared nurses to earn a bachelor's degree in their field. A College of Education and a College of Business offer advanced degrees. Around 450 students are enrolled in the university's graduate programs.
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Vanderbilt University Graduate School The Graduate School manages many of the advanced degree programs of Vanderbilt University, a major research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. While the Graduate School exists as a standalone institution within Vanderbilt, it awards degrees in conjunction with Vanderbilt's other constituent colleges ("e.g.", the College of Arts and Science or the School of Engineering).
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Daniel Ben-Horin Daniel Ben-Horin is an American social entrepreneur and former journalist known for founding the technology assistance nonprofit CompuMentor, now known as TechSoup, in the late 1980s.
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REU at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (or REU) program at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is a competitive research program for college undergraduates that has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1996. Unlike most REU programs, this one is based in Bermuda, rather than an institution within the United States.
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Rockefeller College John D. Rockefeller 3rd College, or "Rocky", is one of six residential colleges at Princeton University, United States. It was founded in 1982, making it the third residential college to be established at Princeton. It is named for John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Princeton Class of 1929, who served as a major donor and longtime trustee of the University.
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Notre Dame University College Notre Dame University College was a private university in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
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Northwest Nazarene University Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nampa, Idaho, USA.
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University of Denver The University of Denver (DU) is a coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest independent private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. DU enrolls approximately 5,600 undergraduate students and 6,100 graduate students. The 125 acre main campus is a designated arboretum and is located primarily in the University Neighborhood, about five miles (8 km) south of downtown Denver.
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Neal Nelson Neal Nelson is a basketball, tennis, and golf coach, as well as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha. He is most well known for his basketball coaching accomplishments, such as a career at UW-Waukesha with over 500 wins, and 5 Wisconsin Collegiate Conference state titles. In 2012, he was elected into the Wisconsin Coaches Hall of Fame.
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Multnomah University Multnomah University (MU) is a non-denominational Christian university in Portland, Oregon, United States. Multnomah consists of a college, graduate school, seminary and Degree Completion Program, and the university offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in a wide range of fields.
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Cary Nelson Cary Nelson (1946), is an American professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was president of the American Association of University Professors between 2006 and 2012.
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Rob Nelson (biologist) Robert "Rob" Nelson (b. 1979, Denver, Colorado) is an American biologist, filmmaker, and television personality. He is a regular contributor to the Science Channel documentary series "What on Earth?" Effective spring 2017, he also became the host and participating researcher of the new Science Channel documentary series "Secrets of the Underground", which seeks to answer new as well as long-held legendary mysteries that lie beneath the surfaces of streets, buildings, earth, salt and fresh water, etc. He holds a B.S. in biology and marine science from University of Miami, a M.S. degree from University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a M.F.A. from Montana State University.
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Blue Ocean Institute Blue Ocean Institute (BOI) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit conservation organization headquartered at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. Blue Ocean was founded in 2003 by MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina (president) and collaborator Mercédès Lee. A central focus of Blue Ocean Institute is to inspire a closer relationship with the sea through science, art, and literature. It shares information that enlightens personal choice, instills hope and helps restore living abundance in the sea.