Students
Classes commenced at UoPeople on September 10, 2009. Currently, over 1500 students from 136 countries, including Cambodia, The Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Colombia, Nigeria, Vietnam, United States, Afghanistan, Thailand, Sudan and Zambia, have been admitted to UoPeople. The student body is diverse, and in a typical classroom, 20 students are likely to be with students from around 20 countries in the same virtual classroom
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“Separatism of any kind promotes marginalization of those unwilling to grapple with the whole body of knowledge and creative works available to others. This is true of black students who do not want to read works by white writers, of female students of any race who do not want to read books by men, and of white students who only want to read works by white writers.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)