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Line 3: --> ~~Please donate to~~ World University and School at Foundation wiki page - <br />▼ http://worlduniversityandschool.org▼ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation Line 23 ⟶ 20: <br /> WUaS's 501 (c) 3 federal US tax exempt charity listing with Guidestar - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx (as of July 2014). Please donate to 501 c 3 World University and School at ▲<br /> ▲http://worlduniversityandschool.org Line 29 ⟶ 31: '''Mission:''' World University and School's mission is free education, courses, and degrees in all known languages. WUaS plans to accredit at the university and high school levels to offer online degrees and diplomas in all countries' main languages. World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best CCCreative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare) seeks also 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 in all countries' main languages~~. 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. Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, open, free-to-students, university and school, - with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, Creative Commons' licensed, degrees planned e.g. bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D., & Music School, as well as I.B. diplomas - and which engages great universities', such as Yale, MIT, other Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, the University of California's 10 campuses, Sciences Po, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc., free, online, CC, content. WUaS is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and is especially for the developing world, and for everyone. WUaS is planning to be in all 7,~~139~~151+ languages and ~200 countries (per the Olympics); Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in ~~285~~~300 languages. Add your course or class here now, and take any course or class you want. We need your help. Please support the World University and School Foundation by donating today. Line 41 ⟶ 43: Quaker-informed World University and School engages Friendly, monthly, business meeting process in which you are welcome to participate. Here's how: "ACCESS to Business Meeting Online Monthly at WUaS" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/12/wuas-business-meeting-online-access.html. ==Grant Writing Experience?== Grant writing opportunities: Do you have #GrantWriting experience, strong professional skills & a selection of work samples? If so, you might be a fit for our team as a part-time #GrantWriter! Please send resumes to sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1567542723623751680?t=BuR7abzi_I6c4GyByuOgOg&s=19 Line 49 ⟶ 59: ==Committees at WUaS== ===Academic Credit and Accreditation Committee at WUaS=== <br> ~~Larry Viehland~~ <br> Scott MacLeod Line 149 ⟶ 159: Scott GK MacLeod, M.A., D.R., (USA; English, German): President, CEO, Founder, Professor, Presiding Clerk (in the manner of Quakers), Publisher - https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod & https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/ & http://www.scottmacleod.com & see too the new WUaS Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjC9Gw2WTy8bpKr_KZN-SIw & the 'global university' blog label in daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university. Edward S Smyth, M.D. (USA; English): Line 155 ⟶ 167: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-smyth-a8073910/ ~~Larry A Viehland, Ph.D. (USA; English):~~ ~~CFO, Treasurer -~~ ~~https://chatham.edu/academics/undergraduate/chemistry/faculty/larry-viehland.html~~ ==World University and School's General Board of Clerks / Trustees== Line 204 ⟶ 214: ==World University & School's Presiding Clerk / Founder / Facilitator / President == Scott MacLeod (USA, English, German); Scott MacLeod, M.A., D.R., is the founder and CEO of http://worlduniversityandschool.org, and the Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. He is an American anthropologist ("Naked Harbin Ethnography," WUaS Press, 2016), sociologist ("Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html), a poet (with 4 books published in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, in the Poetry Press at WUaS, many Harbin-inspired - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html), and philosopher (having written about philosophy of mind, consciousness, language, ethics, regarding western or analytical thinking & Yoga philosophy, consciousness, and ethics - and see blog labels: e.g. https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/philosophy). He is especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies regarding a realistic virtual earth / a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs for Physical-Digital ethnographic, and STEM, research. Scott MacLeod (USA, English, German); Scott MacLeod's M.A., D.R., research focuses on the anthropology of information technology. He teaches "Network Society and Information Technology and the Global University" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - on Harvard's virtual Island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life and in Google group video Hangouts, and as World University and School faculty. In the classroom, he's taught both anthropology and sociology at Chatham University, at the University of Pittsburgh, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at Penn State-New Kensington, and at UC Berkeley. He's wrote in 2016 an ethnographic book about Harbin Hot Springs - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, a book of poetry in 2017 - both published by the Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and is developing World University and School (like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. Scott G.K. MacLeod is also an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Sociology at World University and School. He is currently also the publisher at the Academic Press at World University and School. MacLeod was born in 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a time when his parents were living in Lexington, MA. His parents met and married in the Unitarian church of Cincinnati, Ohio. (His father was a MD, who also taught medical grand rounds as a quick knowledgeable diagnostician, and a professor of public health, and his mother became the director of social work in a large urban hospital, returning to university after her 2 children had grown up a bit). Scott grew up on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., attending Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, PA, from which he received a diploma, and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he received a Bachelor's degree (1985) in Religion (and German). He then received a Master's Degree (2003) in sociocultural Anthropology (with a focus on information technologies) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he also received a Diploma of Research (2004) in Ethnology (with an examination of virtual 'place') from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. ~~Personal web site~~Bio: http://www.scottmacleod.com▼ ===World University and School Accreditation=== World University Medicine and the World University Medical Schools are accredited by ... ▲Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com