Ben Nelson is audacious enough to try launching a university he wants to make as prestigious as Harvard. So it should surprise no one that he is creating a prize he hopes will rival the Nobel. Nelson ...

This week we learned about the newest player in the online higher ed for-profit space, the Minerva Project. Check out Audrey's blog post and and Doug's article for some good background and discussion ...

"Minerva Project" is a project aimed at reinventing higher education by universities that reverse the concepts so far. Students go through overseas student dormitories every year to attend classes ...

Well, we’ve said it before: Technology is changing education. It’s flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors ...

Launched with fanfare (and $25 million in venture capital) in 2012, the Minerva Project purports to be the first startup elite university in 100 years, and the first to be fully designed from the ...

The Minerva Project, which made headlines and raised eyebrows in higher education with a $25 million seed round from Benchmark Capital last year, has appointed Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn as the Founding ...

These days, everyone wants to disrupt higher education. But Ben Nelson, CEO and founder of Minerva Project, thinks he just might have cracked the code. The San Francisco-based start-up announced ...

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Online universities aren ...

Here’s a rule of thumb about colleges: They’re only as good as the students they admit. While there’s certainly evidence that, all things being equal, some institutions of higher education are better ...

For much of the past year, the education entrepreneur Ben Nelson has been pitching the idea of a partnership between the for-profit Minerva Project—his concept for an elite online liberal-arts college ...

The Minerva Project started in 2012 to reinvent American higher education. Lately, that mission seems to be attracting more interest and traction abroad. Case in point: The San Francisco-based company ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. The school is powered by Minerva Project, a venture-backed San ...