Changemakers 06: Chancellor Ben Nelson on Application of Wisdom

The FutureX Podcast

Chancellor Ben Nelson (1/4)

How much has your education really taught you?

When a student’s education, and their degree earned thereafter, is more aesthetic than applicatory to the jobs they will enter into, the negative implications go far beyond just the individual. Society suffers from the uneducated, or rather the miseducated. The systems in place must change. That’s where Minerva University comes in.

In this episode of the FutureX Changemakers series the Founder and Chancellor of Minerva University, Ben Nelson, talks about where higher education went wrong, and how we can get back on track. He discusses the mission of Minerva—one of the most innovative universities in the country—and what the school is doing to reshape Higher Ed.

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Chancellor Ben Nelson is the founder of Minerva with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish where he helped build the company from startup to the world's largest personal publishing service. Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was president and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities.

Nelson's passion for reforming undergraduate education was first sparked at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where he received a Bachelor of Science in economics. After creating a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year of school, Nelson went on to become the chair of the Student Committee on undergraduate education, a pedagogical think tank that is the oldest and only non-elected student government body at the University of Pennsylvania.