2020/2021 Annual Report
Despite the challenges COVID-19 posed to a newly launched OSUN in 2020, the pandemic also highlighted the tangible need for the network. The crisis accelerated collaboration in teaching and learning, allowing the introduction of hundreds of OSUN-sponsored online courses that brought thousands of students and faculty from across the network into shared classrooms. Students demonstrated tremendous initiative in leading civic engagement projects that addressed local and global issues and faculty worked collaboratively to expand access to higher education for refugees, displaced persons, and incarcerated individuals. With more than 40 partner institutions and 50 programs across five continents, our first academic year demonstrated how we are successfully building a diverse network that advances an unwavering commitment to excellence in critical thinking, scholarship and research; to the defense of democratic practices and academic freedom; and to the ideals of an open society.
Despite the challenges COVID-19 posed to a newly launched OSUN in 2020, the pandemic also highlighted the tangible need for the network. The crisis accelerated collaboration in teaching and learning, allowing the introduction of hundreds of OSUN-sponsored online courses that brought thousands of students and faculty from across the network into shared classrooms. Students demonstrated tremendous initiative in leading civic engagement projects that addressed local and global issues and faculty worked collaboratively to expand access to higher education for refugees, displaced persons, and incarcerated individuals. With more than 40 partner institutions and 50 programs across five continents, our first academic year demonstrated how we are successfully building a diverse network that advances an unwavering commitment to excellence in critical thinking, scholarship and research; to the defense of democratic practices and academic freedom; and to the ideals of an open society.