Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford,California,United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford,the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California,and his wife,Jane,in memory of their only child,Leland Jr.
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven,Connecticut,United States. Founded in 1701,Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.
Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature. He is a former dean of Yale College,and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina,from 2004 to 2017.
Mary Ellen Miller is an American art historian and academician specializing in Mesoamerica and the Maya.
Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University,opened in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 14 residential colleges,it was named in honor of Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753),dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne,in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in the 18th century. Built on the site of a group of buildings known from the 1890s until 1933 as the Berkeley Oval,the college was renovated in 1998. It is distinct for having two courtyards connected by an underground tunnel.
Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University,opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Calhoun College after US Vice President John C. Calhoun,but renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The building was designed by John Russell Pope.
Jonathan David Levin is an American economist,currently serving as the 13th president of Stanford University. He was previously the 10th dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Graduate student employee unionization,or academic student employee unionization,refers to labor unions that represent students who are employed by their college or university to teach classes,conduct research and perform clerical duties. As of 2014,there were at least 33 US graduate employee unions,18 unrecognized unions in the United States,and 23 graduate employee unions in Canada. By 2019,it is estimated that there were 83,050 unionized student employees in certified bargaining units in the United States. As of 2023,there were at least 156 US graduate student employee unions and 23 graduate student employee unions in Canada.
Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University,where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Previously,Westad held the S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University,teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has also taught at the London School of Economics,where he served as director of LSE IDEAS. In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at Schwarzman College,Tsinghua University.
Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and former academic administrator. He served as the 23rd president of Yale University from 2013 to 2024. He previously served as provost of Yale University from 2008 to 2013,dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008,and dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2004. Salovey is one of the early pioneers in emotional intelligence.
The Yale Sustainable Food Program (YSFP) serves as a hub for the study of topics in sustainable food and agriculture at Yale University. Founded as the Yale Sustainable Food Project in 2001,the YSFP runs a campus teaching farm,supports a range of different curricular and extra-curricular study opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students,and provides fellowships,awards,and grants for international and professional experience for Yale students.
Coursera Inc. is an American global massive open online course provider. It was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses,certifications,and degrees in a variety of subjects.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%,it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale one of the first American Ivy League schools to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College.
Schwarzman Scholars,founded by American financier and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman,is a one-year fully-funded master's degree leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing,China. The program selects 100–200 scholars per year based on their leadership ability,academic achievement,and commitment to advancing mutual cultural understanding and global progress. Selected scholars pursue a one-year master's degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University,residing at Schwarzman College.
Saw Swee Hock HFLSE was a Singaporean leading expert in statistics,population,and economics,and was a noted philanthropist.
The Yenching Academy is a postgraduate college of Peking University,located in Beijing,China. It hosts the Yenching Scholarship,a fully funded prestigious global scholarship program,designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The academy offers Yenching Scholars,selected annually from around the world,with full scholarships for one or two years of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University.
Jeff Maggioncalda is an American business executive and the chief executive officer of Coursera. Born in 1968,Maggioncalda grew up in Pacifica,California and went to St Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco and graduated from Stanford University in 1991 with a BA degree in English and Economics. Maggioncalda begun his career with Cornerstone Research before heading to Stanford for his Masters in Business Administration in 1996. He then worked at Financial Engines as founding CEO for 18 years,and was instrumental in the company going public in 2010 as the largest independent investment advisor in America. He was then recruited in 2017 to replace Rick Levin as CEO of Coursera. He is widely known to be an influential individual in the Ed-tech sector.
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is the computing college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),private land-grant research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Announced in 2018 to address the growing applications of computing technology,the college is an Institute-wide academic unit that works alongside MIT's five Schools of Architecture and Planning,Engineering,Humanities,Arts,and Social Sciences,Science,and Management. The college emphasizes artificial intelligence research,interdisciplinary applications of computing,and social and ethical responsibilities of computing. It aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for work in artificial intelligence,computer science,data science,and related fields. Its creation was the first significant change to MIT's academic structure since the early 1950s.
