Name: Shai Rashef on Shrinking the Knowledge Gap
Uploaded: 2009-02-23T18:16:40-05:00
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Description: Shai Rashef says the UoP can bring education to everyone.

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Founder & President, University of the People

Shai Reshef is the Founder & President of the University of the People (UoP), the world's first tuition-free, online academic institution which will open its virtual doors in April 2009. Reshefhas twenty[…]

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