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 ...

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: $70 million to San Francisco, CA-based Minerva Project in a Series B round led by three Chinese investors: TAL Education Group, ZhenFund and Yongjin Capital. Existing investor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minerva Schools at KGI is a startup online for-profit university. [wikipedia] Its founders, who include former Snapfish president Ben Nelson, referred to it as “the first elite American university to ...

The Minerva Project is hoping to become the next great American university, and it’s doing it online. The Minerva Project is hoping to become the next great American university, and it’s doing it ...

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 ...

College seeking first students to study online and abroad Students will skip subject areas such as philosophy and economics and focus on %22cornerstone skills%22 such as theoretical analysis The ...