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Mission
 
The mission of World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare) is to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning through open, editable wikis. WUaS plans to accredit at the university and high school levels to offer online degrees and diplomas. WUaS’s wiki will involve open and editable teaching and learning but also non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. WUaS will facilitate the use of free CC courses as credits toward degrees. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere. WUaS will explore the possibility of using universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language with time.
World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.
 
 
 
World University and School’s Business Plan
 
See, as of January 2024, this WUaS Business Plan -
To facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and potentially degrees, eventually) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone, World University and School needs an endowment which we will seek to grow through grants and other funding sources.
 
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School -
([[Master Plan]])
WUaS Educational Services' Stores for Books, Computers, Robotics +
Business Plan for a Startup Business - 2024
 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtXNAEzFp4DdVqKq3pxOPQOQE7ZCS8zqSQhxJmTz3-k/edit?usp=sharing
([[Marketing Plan]])
 
 
- Scott GK MacLeod
World University & School's “customers” are the educators and learners - potentially the whole, wired, teaching and learning world.
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
- 5816 Callowhill St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206
 
As an open, free University and School, like MIT Open Course Ware, WUaS will aggregate, facilitate people teaching, and innovate digitally educationally.
 
1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
MIT OCW-centric,
wiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects,
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
 
Thus far, World University and School has been on the internet for about 4 years. Without funding we've accomplished the following.
 
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
495 wiki pages at World University and School
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
 
 
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages (including plans for translation between all 3000-8000 languages in an universal translator)
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
 
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
 
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod (all 7,168 known living languages at WUaS)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Research
 
 
 
 
 
World University and School would like to build a $1.5 trillion U.S. dollar endowment in the first 10 years, and an additional $1.5 trillion dollar endowment, in the second 10 years.
 
 
 
 
WUaS Business
 
World University and School will raise funds for World University and School's endowment.
 
The primary goal of this business is to build an endowment of U.S. $1.5 trillion (in 2009 dollars) in 10 years (by 2020) to support development of World University and School, and another U.S. $1.5 trillion in the second 10 years (by 2030).
 
We would like to make an university and school for all One Laptop Per Child countries, and indeed all languages, nation states, subjects, and levels.
 
The WUaS foundation will pay a large network of teachers and salaries, partner with great universities, and facilitate connecting with the poorest parts of the world and the developing world.
 
 
 
 
[[Fundraising Plan]]
 
Most schools have their monies in the following spheres:
 
1) general, - philanthropists / individuals, online bookstore / computer store
 
2) plant, - online, developing, virtual campus, with rentals
 
3) endowment, and
 
4) grants - companies, governments, philanthropic organizations.
 
WUaS plans to focus its financial operations in the specific areas in these spheres.
 
 
 
Resources for foundation information:
 
Charity Navigator: http://www.charitynavigator.org
 
Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org/
 
 
'''Scientific Research Foundations'''
 
Elton John Foundation - http://www.ejaf.org/
 
 
 
'''Foundations'''
 
 
 
 
Possible WUaS university businesses:
 
 
WUaS recycled computers, and smartphones for the emerging world, sending them to potential WUaS students around the world
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS
 
Emphasize R.O.I. here.
 
 
WUaS Academic Book Publishing
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School
 
 
 
WUaS internet service for the emerging world targetting World University and School communities
 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Broadband_Development
 
 
 
 
WUaS Merchandise - T-Shirts, cards ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Funding possibilities
 
MacArthur
 
 
 
 
Omidyar Foundation
 
Microsoft Elevate America nonprofits grant program: http://www.microsoftupblog.com/post/Announcing-Microsoft-Elevate-America-nonprofits-grant-program.aspx
 
 
Ford Foundation - http://www.fordfound.org/issues/education/overview
 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - http://www.hewlett.org/
 
David and Lucile Packard Foundation - http://www.packard.org/home.aspx
 
Rex Foundation - http://rexfoundation.org/
 
Skoll Foundation - http://www.skollfoundation.org/
 
 
 
Obama Educational Stimulus Plan
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html
 
Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation
 
Other Microsoft Foundations
 
Pew Foundation
 
Sloan Foundation
 
Soros Foundation
 
Intel Foundations
 
Apple Foundations
 
Hewlett Packard Labs Open Innovation Office
 
Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) Foundations
 
Silicon Valley Company foundations
 
Domini Society Equity Fund Company Foundations ("The Domini 400")
 
Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
The San Francisco Bay Area, including especially Silicon Valley
 
Pittsburgh Foundation
 
Nokia
 
Project RAFT
 
Cisco Systems
 
Google
 
eBay
 
TechSoup Global
 
Aetna
 
Adobe Systems
 
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
 
Agilent Technologies
 
Alcoa
 
Applied Materials
 
Business Objects
 
eBay
 
Intuit
 
Juniper Networks
 
LSI Logic
 
National Semiconductor
 
NetApp
 
Nvidia
 
Oracle Corporation
 
SanDisk
 
Sanmina-SCI
 
Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
 
Symantec
 
Yahoo!
 
Smith Glaxo Kline Foundations
 
Gilead Science Foundations
 
Skoll foundation
 
Mozilla Drumbeat
 
 
[[Socially Conscious Companies for Foundations]]
 
Ethos Foundation
 
 
 
Individuals
 
 
Big cities around this country, and around the world
 
 
* The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Ford Foundation
* Google, Inc.
* Harnisch Foundation
* Internews
* Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
* The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
* The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
* The Microsoft Corporation
* Craig Newmark
* The Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation
 
 
* AOL
* AT&T
* Best Buy Co., Inc.
* eBay
* The Ernst & Young Foundation
* John I. Forry
* Gartner Group
* Philip L. Graham Fund
* The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
* Hivos
* IBM
* Lenovo
* Linden Lab
* Loopt
* McCormick Tribune Foundation
* The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
* Mozilla
* The Craig Newmark Philanthropic Trust
* NewsCorp/MySpace
* Novell
* The Oak Foundation
* The Omidyar Network
* Oracle Corporation
* PayPal
* Reed Elsevier
* Reuters, Inc.
* The Charles H. Revson Foundation
* Sun Microsystems
* Symantec
* Trend Micro
* Turner Broadcasting
* United States Department of State
* VeriSign, Inc.
* Viacom/MTV International
 
 
 
 
 
 
Web site donations
 
 
Like One Laptop per Child relationships with countries and governments
 
 
For this 2009 tax year, we'd like to raise $400,000.
 
$1 million in 2010
 
 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
 
 
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Endowment goals
 
Fiscal year, 20132015 (ending December 31, 20132015):
 
$200500,000 dollars in this first year
 
 
5 interns in the first year.
 
= $30,000 in January 2013, and $85,000 in each subsequent month
 
1 million dollars in the 2nd year
 
WUaS Five Year Plan
20 million dollars in the 3rd year
 
"The TOTAL resource requirements (financial, human, legal, marketing, etc) of a minimum 5-year plan with objectives, milestones, and target measurable indicators, need to be spelled out, together with a funding strategy and resource mobilization and implementation strategy."
30 million in the 4th year
 
See:
100 million in the 5th year
World University and School’s Business Plan in GDoc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YKwTIlRuilrTggo7uIcY1GqPImqaA5XHteoZzBtEyM/edit?usp=sharing
 
Objectives
200 million in the 6th year
Milestones
Measurable Indicators
Funding strategy
Resources mobilization
Implementation strategy
 
Financial
300 million in the 7th year
Human resources
Legal
Marketing
 
400 million in the 8th year
 
500 million in the 9th year
 
leading to $1.5 trillion in the 10th year
 
 
 
Compensation for Universitians (what World University calls its participants).
 
Goal in 2010: $1,000,000 the first year, the remainder of which doesn't get spent (below $600,000?) goes into the Endowment
 
 
1 General Manager $70,000 – who is the Go To person
1 Head Fundraiser $50,000 - (+ 50% of 1st $100,000, 40% of next $250,000 they raise) – to build a growing team of fundraisers. Develops plan for $1.5 trillion endowment over 10 years.
 
Each of these could hire 1-5 interns in the first year.
 
 
While WUaS is 'placeless,' a number of the first Universitians live in or around Berkeley, California, and we'd like to hire, for example, 2-10 UC Berkeley or Stanford University interns @ $11.50 an hour (but also, potentially, the brightest 20-25 year old students in the world e.g. MIT, Ivy League students, University of Tokyo, Michigan, Cambridge, Oxford, Berlin, etc.) for up to 20 hours a week, posting the job possibilities on the WUaS wiki page. We'd like to then hire 20-100 interns in the 2nd year.
 
 
The initial intern positions would focus on the following:
 
Intern positions
 
The following would report to the 'Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility' (a Quaker):
 
1 intern head of grant writing (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, Buffett, Sloan, Soros, Silicon Valley computer company foundations, all of the Domini Social Equity Corporations' Foundations (companies that have met socially responsible and activist screens)
1 intern head of corporate liaisons (where WUaS could offer accounting courses for companies, and related course development as 'thank you' courses, for significant grants)
1 intern head of U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Department? liaison for pension and health benefits
1 intern head of accounting
1 intern head of communication with Board members (for 5 person clerk board and for 100+ person board – a board member in every major city in the world?)
1 intern head of endowment management and planning (socially-conscious mutual fund indexing approach).
 
 
 
 
The following report to the General Manager:
 
1 intern head of WUaS Universitian community building – like Wikipedians – Everyone can teach – new content generators with web cameras
1 intern head of wiki Academic sections, for eventual degrees
1 intern head of One Laptop per Child wiki languages' development
1 intern head of wiki, new, open Teaching and Learning content aggregation
1 intern head of wiki and other Information Technology technical development – including Google Wave
1 intern head of languages' development – liaison with other WUaS languages
1 intern head of nation-state wiki – and eventual accreditation in each
1 intern head of Second Life island development
1 intern head of New Intern Development – nascent Human Resources position – job descriptions
1 intern head of legal questions - Creative Commons law
1 intern head of outreach, marketing and branding
1 intern head of Minutes for all the committees, each of the above being a committee, facilitating and training other recording clerks
1 intern head of Medical School and hospital development
1 intern head of Music School
1 intern head of Design
1 intern head of New Schools (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)
 
 
 
Business Plan Committee … (Board)
 
 
 
 
 
for FTEs
 
Health insurance
Pension
(as independent 501 c 3, partnering with the Berkeley Department of Anthropology?).
 
 
Add 2 to 100 interns a year?
 
What happens with faster growth … and more resources?
 
 
 
Educational purpose
 
 
Initial incorporation documents
 
Articles of incorporation
Bylaws
Minutes of first meeting of the board of directors
 
 
Secretary
 
 
Clerks' Board
 
General Board for ideas / resources
 
Ph.D.s on Board to guide it toward accreditation
 
 
A Business Manager / Economist – Wharton? A MBA?
 
Someone knowledgeable and experienced with 501 c 3s
 
 
 
 
Someone knowledgeable about making a college a university – Professor Larry Viehland
 
 
Someone experience with raising a trillion dollars endowment – Harvard Business School?
 
 
Someone experienced with managing rapid growth, and executing a business plan … to go from 0 Universitians to 100s of paid Universitians … and a much larger volunteer community of Universitians, like Wikipedians...
 
 
 
Someone experienced with a multiple LANGUAGES' wiki, with a group-knowledge focus
 
 
Someone knowledgeable about Creative Commons legal questions … vis-a-vis a wiki, if necessary
 
 
 
Someone Quaker-oriented with a focus on funding and scaling
 
 
 
 
Outreach
 
Initially we'll target Wikia and open source users (Wikipedia, GlobalVoicesOnline.org), and students at great universities, and OLPC languages, and expand from there.
 
 
 
 
 
 
World University and School is in the process of incorporating and has 5 board members, a C.F.O./treasurer and a secretary/recording clerk.
 
 
We're not only developing education jobs (we would like to hire a lot of Ph.D.s, after interns), we would also like to build everything associated with modern education, almost exclusively digitally. For example, an online hospital for teaching and learning, an online dental school, veterinary medicine school, etc., as well as potentially develop hardware like video-capable, wireless handheld devices, for 3000-8000 languages. WUaS is open to all subjects, but will stay away from weapons, bomb, nuclear-weapon and related teaching and learning material. In creating World University & School, we're developing a free, open, virtual university & school, potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and at all levels.
 
WUaS is a compelling idea that needs support to be realized.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"All Ways Free" to students. Budget for this in perpetuity (perhaps like Tokyo University and Scandinavian universities).
 
 
Year 2010
 
Started World University & School as a nonprofit corporation in California, U.S.A.
 
Quarter 1
 
Start World University & School, as a nonprofit corporation in California, U.S.A.
 
 
 
Engage General Manager and Head Fundraiser interns
 
Hire 2-10 interns this year
 
 
Quarter 2
 
 
 
Quarter 3
 
 
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year 2011
 
Hire 20-70 interns this year
 
 
 
Plan for mobile video capable device acquisitions, like OLPC handhelds with video, for OLPC countries, to complement OLPC areas, and to reach out to other populations.
 
Plan for wiring some OLPC countries (New Guinea?) for video capability
 
Plan for Server farms?
 
Develop unique WUaS video publishing (e.g. WUaS's own open, free Ustream or Youtube) for some teaching and learning material.
 
 
Quarter 1
 
 
 
Quarter 2
 
 
 
Quarter 3
 
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
Year 2012
 
 
 
Quarter 1
 
 
 
Quarter 2
 
 
 
Quarter 3
 
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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Year 2014
 
Guidestar Goldstar label
�http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx
 
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Year 2015
 
Quarter 3
 
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
Year 2014
Begin degree granting process - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Law Degrees, Music Degrees, bachelors Degrees (in the English version)
 
 
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Accept first degree students - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Music Degrees, bachelors
 
 
Quarter 3
 
3 Reed College FWS interns, "on the teaching side" of WUaS
1st year of credit and degree granting
 
1-3 Harvard GSHE unpaid interns
First groups of students matriculate (in partnership with great Universities? All online)
 
toward the following degrees
 
High school students' application from around the world
Ph.D.s (in 4 different disciplines) (M.A. as part of the process)
M.D.s (4 students)
Music School (4 instruments, or areas, composition, theory, etc.)
Bachelor degrees (in 4 different disciplines)
Watsu certificate program
Focus on enjoyment?
 
 
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Year 2016
 
 
Year 2015
 
online Law School opens (Harvard?)
 
 
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Matriculate first class of 2020 undergraduates to graduate with bachelor degrees
2nd year for these 16 students
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
Year 2016
 
online Dental School opens with students (with Michigan?)
 
 
 
Quarter 1
 
 
 
Quarter 2
 
 
 
Quarter 3
 
3rd year for these 16 students
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
Year 2017
 
online Veterinary Medicine School opens (with Cornell?)
 
 
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Medical students (and Music School? students) graduate - first Medical Degrees and Music Degrees at WUaS
 
 
Quarter 3
 
Matriculate first class of 2021 undergraduates to graduate with bachelor degrees
4th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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Quarter 2
 
Undergraduate students (and Music School? students) graduate - first 4 Bachelor degrees
 
 
Quarter 3
 
5th year of credit and degree granting
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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6th year of credit and degree granting
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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Quarter 2
 
first Ph.D.s graduate
 
 
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7th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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8th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
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9th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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10th year of credit and degree granting
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
 
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11th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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12th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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13th year of credit and degree granting
 
Quarter 4
 
 
 
 
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14th year of credit and degree granting
 
 
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==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
 
 
===Ideas===
 
WUaS is listed in Guidestar.org - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx  (as of July 2014).
 
WUaS also has a new domain name - http://worlduniversityandschool.org .
 
 
 
==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
 
 
===Ideas===
 
"Most schools have their money in roughly four buckets: 1) general, 2) plant, 3) endowment, and 4) grants. Most for-profits, Jim notes, have just one such bucket; the nature of the accounting in schools is different in this important way. There are three types of money: 3) permanently restricted (e.g., many endowed funds); 2) temporarily restricted (e.g., grants and other “use-it-or-lose-it money”); and 3) unrestricted (within reason; the board can still constrain its usage somewhat, if needed). Jim emphasized the importance for heads of institutions to be the “translator” of the financial issues related to the school for the community at large. He cites to Herzlinger’s four questions that we (as leaders and trustees) should ask about the financials regularly: 1) are the organization’s goals consistent with its resources?; 2) are the sources and uses of resources matched?; 3) is there intergenerational equity?; and, 4) are present resources sustainable? ”High performing organizations aren’t just lucky,” Jim tells us. Another good line: in education, “you can’t cut your way to prosperity.”" (Harvard business school Professor James P. Honan)
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Govind Nair suggests (April 2013): Business plan + proof of concept. Upstream U.S. based pilot with students, platform, operational + pedagogical delivery; Malaysia as a testbed for globalizing a MIT-centric education model - requires global sponsors. Find sponsors whose contributions would cover capital and operating costs of an initial 4 year pilot program leading to MIT OCW-centric degree virtually delivered. Cost model + financing plan + model from operating and capital costs over 4 year program with financing plan. Map out marketing plan to concurrently develop or follow financing plan.
WUaS Business Plan:
 
 
 
WUaS Business Plan:
Tools for Business Model Generation [Entire Talk]
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2875
 
03:09 Talking About Business Models
 
Experiment, succeed and fail, learn from insights
 
 
03:32 The Business Model Canvas
 
see nine aspects below
 
 
05:55 Sketching Out a Business Model
 
see below
 
 
04:30 Using Business Models to Beat the Competition
 
free, accredited MIT OCW-centric degrees
no competition so far online, but different countries' on-the-ground, non-U.S., free universities are competition
 
 
04:28 Mapping Customer Pains to Value Proposition
 
Customer gains and pains
 
gains - free MIT OCW- / Yale OCW-centric degrees
 
pains - 32 courses, MIT / Harvard online with grades ... making it easier via the conference method
 
 
 
Business Canvas...
 
- Customer Statements
 
Quaker students
 
Overachieving students
 
 
 
- Value Propositions
 
free bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law, M.D., & Music School degrees
 
open teaching and learning
 
 
- Channels (to be trusted)
 
CC MIT OCW
 
CC Yale OYC
 
WUaS Wiki
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- Key Partners
 
Quakers
 
MIT OCW
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a wiki
 
in Google + group video Hangouts
 
between people teaching and learning
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- MIT OCW-centric World University and School is the brand
 
 
WUaS's Business Plan (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan) as a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization includes:
 
- fundraising from foundations, governments and individuals, both in the U.S. and internationally;
 
- an online bookstore / computer store for text and course books and learning resources planned for all 7,106+ languages;
 
- collaboration financially with governments in all 242+ countries in main languages in them, for free (since CC) and MIT OCW-centric University (Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, M.D., and I.B.), and high school, degrees.
 
 
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Open Journal Systems. 2012. [http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Open Journal Systems]. Public Knowledge Project.
 
(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at Academia.edu http://www.academia.edu or Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/ - or Spire - http://spire.sciences-po.fr/web/ - for example); See Library Resources below at WUaS for further resources.
 
 
 
===Q item in Wikidata===
 
 
===Select Analytics===
 
 
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===Select Blogs, Blog Aggregators===
 
 
===Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.===
 
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts
 
https://plus.google.com/hangouts
 
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
 
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
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===Select Books, eBooks===
 
Add an ISBN.
 
 
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks
 
 
===Select Calendars for Events in this Subject===
 
 
===Select Call for Papers, Chapters, Submissions, etc.===
 
 
===Select Case Studies===
 
 
===Select Challenges===
 
 
===Select Channels===
 
 
===Select Chapters, Book Chapters, etc.===
 
 
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===Select ConferencesConcerts Online===
 
 
===Select Conference Materials===
 
 
===Select Conferences, Conferences Online===
 
 
===Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions===
 
 
===Select Databases===
 
 
===Select Databases of Professionals and Specialists===
 
 
===Select Dictionaries===
 
 
===Select Encyclopedias===
 
 
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===Select Google + Hangouts, UnHangouts, Group Video, Updates, etc.===
===Select Humor===
 
 
===Select Idea Competitions / Conversations / DialoguesHumor===
 
 
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===Select Institutions, Institutes, Centers, Networks of Centers, etc.===
 
 
===Select Interviews, Question and Answers, Q&As===
 
 
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===Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.Letters===
 
 
===Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.===
 
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
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===Select Museums===
 
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).
 
 
===Select Newspapers, News, Newsletters===
 
 
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===Select PhotosPapers===
 
 
===Select ProgramsPhotos, ApplicationsPictures, Softwareetc.===
 
 
===Select Questions, Inquiries, ProblemsPlatforms===
 
 
===Select Poetry===
 
 
===Select Programs, Applications, Languages, Software===
 
 
===Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems, FAQs===
 
 
===Select Quotes, Quotations, etc.===
 
Wikidata:Wikiquote. 2014. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote Wikidata:Wikiquote]. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote.
 
 
===Select RSS Feeds===
===Select RSS Feeds, SMS, etc.===
 
 
===Select Recordings===
 
 
 
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Blodget, Henry. 2012. [http://www.businessinsider.com/harvards-endowment-managers-make-almost-as-much-as-all-450-professors-combined-2012-12 Harvard's Top 5 Endowment Managers Make Almost As Much As 450 Professors Combined]. Dec. 7. businessinsider.com.
 
Conroy, Tom. 2013. [http://news.yale.edu/2013/09/24/endowment-earns-125-return#! Endowment earns 12.5% return]. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
 
Cowan, Alexander. 2013. [http://www.alexandercowan.com/resources/planning-tactics/business-model-canvas-templates hat’s the Business Model Canvas?]. alexandercowan.com.
 
Healy, Beth. 2013. [http://www.boston.com/business/2013/09/24/harvard-endowment-gains-percent-beating-internal-target-but-underperforming-yale/Su6aZWSFJ9ZOMhj00LAyTO/story.html Harvard endowment gains 11.3 percent, beating internal target but underperforming Yale]. September 24. Boston, MA: Boston Globe.
 
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity]. January 29. Stanford, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html .
 
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/brazil-wood-how-best-to-publish-my.html Brazilwood: Brazilwood: How best to publish my Harbin manuscript to paper, and also via Google Books and Google Library project, for example online, The Quaker "Inner Light Books" Publisher, WUaS Revenue & Business Plans, a) "Academic Press at World University and School," b) "Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS," c) "WUaS Universal Translator," d) "Library Resources" (planned for ALL languages)]. August 15. Emeryvielle, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/brazil-wood-how-best-to-publish-my.html .
 
Palfrey, John. 2012. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2012/07/10/new-heads-of-school-institute-part-ii/ New Heads of School Institute (Part II)]. (4 buckets - for financial sustainability) July 10. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/.
 
Walk, Hunter. 2013. [http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130301044325-7298-manager-okrs-maker-okrs-how-i-d-change-google-s-goal-setting-process]. March 1. linkedin.com.
 
WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci. 2015. [http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity]. Feburary 1. worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html .
 
Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. 2012. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdfWikimediaFoundation
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===Select Reviews===
 
 
===Select Schools, Universities, etc.===
 
 
===Select Search Engines===
 
 
===Select Sessions===
 
 
===Select Sheet Music===
 
 
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===Select Slideshows===
 
 
===Select Social Networking Pages===
 
 
===Select Societies, Associations, Groups, Networks, etc.===
 
 
===Select Statistics===
 
 
===Select Study Guides===
 
 
===Select Surveys===
 
 
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===Select Teachers with Email Addresses/Contact Information===
 
 
===Select Talks===
 
 
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===Select Textbooks===
 
 
===Select Theories===
 
 
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===Select Timelines===
 
 
===Select Tools===
 
 
===Select Twitters===
 
 
===Select Updates===
 
 
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===Select Video Conferences===
 
 
===Select Video with Subtitles for Translation===
 
 
===Select Videocasts and Podcasts===
 
 
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Create Your Business Plan. 2013. [http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan Create Your Business Plan]. Washington, DC: sba.gov.
 
 
===Select Wikidata Queries===
 
 
===Select Wikis===
 
WikiBase (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client)
 
WikiData (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata)
===World University and School Links===
 
 
===Select Workshops===
 
 
===Select Writers, Researchers, etc.===
 
 
===Subject's Social Networking Sites===
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
===Wikimedia Commons===
 
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikipedia===
 
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
 
 
===Wikiquotes===
 
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikisource===
 
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikivoyage===
 
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/
 
 
===World University and School Links===
 
Entrepreneurship: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship
 
Fundraising: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising
 
WUaS Master Plan: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan
 
 
 
==WUaS Navigation==
 
New WUaS in MediaWiki:
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page
 
 
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Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
 
Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MITGreatest OCWUniversities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.
 
 
Digital and Print catalog
 
 
===Assistive Technologies===
 
WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar -
 
Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies
 
 
 
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===Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)===
 
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
 
Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ .
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===Coordinates===
 
Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS
 
Geohash keys
 
... in a virtual world
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Broadcast to radio frequencyfrequencies
 
 
Broadcast to TV / television
 
 
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Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)
 
 
Google Glass
 
 
MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/
 
 
Oculus Rift
 
 
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===Free Degrees / Credit===
 
MIT OCW Audio Video Courses:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
 
Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
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WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
</br />
(probablybeginning inwith United Nations' languages only - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)
 
 
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===In Virtual World===
 
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
 
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/
 
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice
Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net
 
Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/
 
Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html
 
ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
 
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
 
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
 
OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)
 
Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/
 
Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/
 
Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
 
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
 
SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/
 
Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.
 
SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/
Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/
 
There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/
 
Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar
 
Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/
 
WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/
 
World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage
 
 
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Travel to this virtual island to learn building:
 
 
===Item Number===
 
Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
 
Bar code
 
 
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===Learning Networking===
 
Teach and Learn using free Social BookmarkingNetworking software to identifyshare what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
 
 
About Me - World University and School -
http://about.me
 
 
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Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').
 
 
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Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (- Scott MacLeod) - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/
 
 
Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts
 
 
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LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337
 
 
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Wer Kennt Wen - World University &and School subject- grouphttp://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/
 
 
World University & School 'subject page' group
 
 
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Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/
 
 
===Linked Open Data===
 
Linked Open Data, Linked Data for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on privacy and security.
 
 
 
===List of Wikipedias===
 
List of Wikipedias. 2015. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias .
 
 
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===Tutoring===
 
===Save this page for download in the following formats===
 
atom
 
GeoJSON
 
csv.csvm
 
map.html
 
csv
 
xls
 
rdf
 
klm
 
 
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Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:
 
 
Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts
 
 
Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv
 
 
Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
 
 
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
 
 
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''Free, group video conferencing''
 
AnyMeeting - http://l.anymeeting.com/homepage/
 
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/
 
Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin
 
ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
 
Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com
 
sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎
 
Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok
 
Vyew - http://vyew.com/
 
Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/
 
Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/
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http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator
 
Google Translate language:
 
Sugar Labs: Translation System language:
 
Region:
 
 
'''Select Translators'''
 
Babelxl. 2015. [http://babelxl.com/ Babelxl: the best translator]. http://babelxl.com/ .
 
Babylon Online Translation. 2015. [http://translation.babylon.com/ Babylon Online Translation]. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/ .
 
Free-translator.com. 2015. [http://free-translator.com/ Free-translator.com]. free-translator.com/ .
 
Google Translate. 2015. [https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate]. translate.google.com/ .
 
SDL Free Translation. 2015. [http://www.freetranslation.com/ SDL Free Translation]. freetranslation.com/ .
 
Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. [http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products/ Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products]. worldlingo.com/en/products/ .
 
 
'''Select Video with Subtitles for Translation'''
 
Amara.org. 2015. [http://www.amara.org/en/ Amara.org: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified]. (Amara makes video globally accessible: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified). amara.org/en/
 
TED Open Translation Project. 2015. [https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project TED Open Translation Project]. (See - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project - and - https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/get-started). ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project .
 
 
===The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School===
 
[[The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and SchoolWUaS]]
 
 
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Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaintwikifoundry.com/
 
 
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===World University and School Licensing===
 
World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.
 
World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, as of 2011.
 
World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.
 
All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 34.0 licenseInternational (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/34.0/us/ .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
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Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
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Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
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World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
 
<br />
LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
<br />
LIBRARY TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LIBRARY_TEMPLATE
<br />
MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
<br />
NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
<br />
SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
 
<br />
Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
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For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
<br />
 
WUaS's Guidestar.org listing -
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx .
 
<br />
Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at
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Thank you!