UPDATE: March 10 2020 - Please note that this public lecture has been postponed until further notice. 

Office of the Pro
Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Monday, March 2, 2020 - The
University of the West Indies Open Campus will host a public lecture
on Monday March 16, 2020 at 6:00 pm in Lecture Room 3 at The UWI Cave
Hill Campus.

Mr
Ben Nelson, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Minerva
Project will deliver the public lecture entitled “Moving beyond
copying ‘best in class’ to defining it; Opportunities for
Caribbean education.”

Mr
Nelson started Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical
wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and
evidence-based approach to learning. Over the past eight years, Mr
Nelson has built Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI),
a member of the Claremont University Consortium.

Mr
Nelson’s passion for reforming education was first sparked at the
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he received a
B.S. in Economics. After creating a blueprint for curricular reform
in his first year, the principles from which he drew to frame
Minerva, Nelson went on to become the chair of the Student Committee
on Undergraduate Education (SCUE).

Prior
to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he
helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest
personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across
22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor,
Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world.

“The UWI Open Campus is privileged to have a person of Ben Nelson’s stature to deliver this public lecture,” Dr Luz Longsworth, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Open Campus stated. “He is a higher education visionary who has a passion for reinventing education and I invite everyone with an interest in education in the Caribbean to attend the lecture and hear Mr Nelson, it will be worth your while.”

About
The UWI

For
the past 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has
provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider
world. The UWI has evolved from a university college of London in
Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally
respected, regional university with near 50,000 students and five
campuses: Mona
in Jamaica, St.
Augustine
in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave
Hill
in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda, and an Open
Campus.
As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established
partnering centres with universities in North America, Asia, and
Africa such as the State
University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and
Sustainable Development,
the UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of
Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the
Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of
Johannesburg (UJ).
The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and
postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering,
Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science &
Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. 

As
the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost
objective is driving the growth and development of the regional
economy. Times Higher Education (THE) has ranked The UWI among the
top 1,258 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best
universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018. It was the only
Caribbean-based University to make the prestigious lists. For more,
visit www.uwi.edu.