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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Famous quotes containing the word students:
“A complacent old Don of Divinity
Used to boast of his daughter’s virginity:
“They must have been dawdlin’,
The students of Magdalen—
It couldn’t have happened at Trinity.””
—Anonymous.
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)