By: NerdScholar, USA Today
A typical day for college freshman Yoel Ferdman might include a class held at a local coffee shop, an afternoon trip to the opera and an ethnic dinner cooked with fellow students. Ferdman, 17, is a member of the founding class at Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute. It’s a four-year, accredited undergraduate degree program aimed at teaching students critical thinking, creativity and communication skills. Since last September, Ferdman and 27-other students from the United States, Israel, Malaysia and eleven other countries have been testing the innovative curriculum. Minerva Schools has no campus — cities are its classrooms. Its office is in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood, just down the street from Twitter headquarters. Students spend the first year in San Francisco, then move to a new city every semester: Buenos Aires, Berlin, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London and New York. “Being put into the city really makes me reflect on the way I interact with the city and the people around me,” says Minerva student Lucy Chen, 19, from China.
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/01/29/students-test-concept-of-elite-lower-cost-no-campus-college/
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