• 공식명칭: Minerava Schools at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute).
• 창립자: Ben Nelson, 동기부여되고 뛰어난 학생들을 위해 제창조된 대학경험이라고 함
• 2011년, Keck Graduate Institute와 (KGI) Minerva project (영리회사)라는 일종의 대학교육 프로젝트와의 파트너십으로 만들어진
  • 비영리조직의 대학교.
    • KGI는 Claremont University Consortium의 제7 멤버.
    • 4년제 교육환경제공
    • 최근까지의 acceptance rate는 1.5%정도에 불과하다고 알려짐.
    • 2012년 Benchmark Capital로 부터 2천5백만 달러의 투자유치¹⁾
  • The Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship 혹은 Minerva Academy는 또 하나의 비영리 조직으로
    • 학생장학금, 교수리서치펀드, teaching excellence award를 다룸 ²⁾
• 2017, Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (The MIT Press) Minerva 출간

Minerva University

• Undergraduate:
• Graduate:
  • The Master of Science in Decision Analysis
    • Utility Across Disciplines!!

Minerva Project founded in 2011
Investment in 2012 from Benchmarak Capital
in 2012, Minerva schools is founded in partnership with KGI: 공식명칭 Minerva Schools at KGI

The Minerva Project’s plans go far beyond the prize: Mr. Nelson also hopes to create a top-tier for-profit research university, where classes would be online seminars but students would live together. Although the effort is a long way from taking shape, his ideas provide interesting glimpses of how technology may drive changes in higher education. Tamar Lewin, (April 22, 2013). Yearly Prize of $500,000 Is Created for Faculty, NY Times

“The four Minerva Cornerstones”은 Minerva 대학교 내의 여러학제에서 공통적으로 필요한 분야 중 넷을 추려서 각 4학점 과목으로 구성한 커리큘럼입니다. 내용은 Complex systems, Empirical Analysis, Formal Analysis, Multimodal Communications로 구성이 되어 있습니다. 각 타이틀은 생소하게 들리지만 각각 사회학,

Complex systems
Empirical Analyses

• semester 1
  • Unit 1: problem solving
    • resources such as food, water allocation problem
    • making decision through creative heuristics
  • scientific method
    • evidence
    • visualization
    • data processing
    • patterns in data
    • collecting data
    • hypotheses testing
    • modeling
  • Semester Synthesis 1: Sea level rise
  • Semester Synthesis 2: Pandemic preparedness
  • Semester Synthesis 3: Jurassic world

Formal Analyses
Multimodal Communications

Class polls and activities: 90 min participation in Minerva Active Learning Forum
Signature assignments: essay, short paper, problem sets or models, etc.
Location based assignments: 5 hour workload (setting aside preparation, research, writing up the work product to submit)
final project: A single final project across all four Cornerstone classes

4학점 수업이라는 기준으로 보았을때

• 학생들이 느끼는 수업의 공부량
• 학생들이 느끼는 수업의 난이도
• 해당 수업을 가르치기 위해 필요한 교수자의 역량