Minerva University
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Sep 29, 2026
Andrew MaynardHOST
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Bryan PenpraseGUEST
many ways, some of the other schools that I've written about, like Minerva University has a similar kind of curriculum designed by, you know, a centralized set of brilliant people.
Bryan PenpraseGUEST
Western Governors University has differentiated roles for faculty.
Bryan PenpraseGUEST
So there's whole teams of faculty that design a course instead of just each faculty kind of in their garage, picking up their own version of curriculum.
Diane TavennerGUEST
Places to look, though, obviously what Northeastern is doing with their co-ops is really interesting, you know, where young people are literally taking full semesters and going and working in the world and getting credit for that.
Diane TavennerGUEST
I also, as you know, I chair the board of Minerva University, and I think this is a much more sort of integrated example of how the classroom experience has been modernized in a way that makes it much more practical and much more.
Diane TavennerGUEST
engaging.
Diane TavennerGUEST
These are the most engaging higher ed classrooms I've ever been in in my life.
Cameron McCoyHOST
But my question, my next question is really, and you use the term entrepreneurial.
Cameron McCoyHOST
And last time I had one of these conversations, it was with Ben Nelson from Minerva University, who in effect said, we're going to design outside of the system and build something new in an entrepreneurial way versus what you have experienced and what you've done at the variety of institutions where you've been, which has been all inside the institution.
Chris HowardGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Cameron McCoyHOST
I think, though, the difference in my sort of watching your career and watching Arizona State and what Michael Crow has done there and now your influence on the university is that oftentimes what it appears that you all are doing at Arizona State is really focusing on root cause issues and solving those, vice the tendency of other institutions.