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    With a strong emphasis on student-centered learning, critical literacy, and liberal arts and sciences education, OSUN creates diverse global classrooms of students who learn from each other and collectively develop a culture of dialogue and debate.

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      • Birkbeck Summer School
      • Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP)
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      • Global History Lab
      • Global Teaching Fellowship Program
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  • Research sub-menuResearch

    OSUN promotes collaboration across its partner institutions, including the codesign of research projects, to explore issues of global and local relevance through socially engaged research, interdisciplinary collaboration, or comparative research.

    • Research Projects
      • The Democracy Institute
      • Economic Democracy Initiative
      • Engaged Scholarship
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      • Global Institute of Advanced Study
      • Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
      • Interruptrr
      • Open Society Research Platform
      • Research Creation Initiative
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    • Fellowships
      • Chatham House Academy Fellowships
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  • Access sub-menuAccess

    OSUN expands access to higher education by creating new pathways for underserved communities. Academic integration and connected learning bring educational opportunities to students beyond OSUN’s brick-and-mortar campuses.

    • Teacher Education
      • Enhanced Network Teacher Education Capacity
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
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      • Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents
      • Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison
      • English Learner Success in Content Classrooms
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
      • Microcollege for Just Community Leadership
      • OLIve
      • Roma Equity in Higher Education
      • The Socrates Project
  • Civic sub-menuCivic Engagement

    With a belief in the public purpose of higher education, civic engagement across OSUN promotes best practices and bold new initiatives to help students, faculty, and institutions realize their full potential as community actors and educators.

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      • Global Commons
      • Global Debate Network
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      • Get Engaged Conference
      • Online Arts Workshop
      • Student-Led Initiatives
      • Student Life Initiatives Project (SLIP)
    • Engaged Learning
      • Certificate in Civic Engagement
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    OSUN offers myriad opportunities and events to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and scholars, and faculty. News and features provide updates on project impacts and the people involved.

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  • Resources sub-menuResources

    OSUN faculty and institutions have worked collectively to assemble this dynamic collection of student-centered teaching methodologies and instructional strategies. Whether working online, in person, or in a blended context, establishing a clear and consistent communication plan with students is central to all of these practices.

    • OSUN Resources
      • Academic Technology Guides
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  • About sub-menuAbout

    OSUN aims to educate students for tomorrow’s global challenges, fostering critical thinking and open intellectual inquiry to strengthen the foundations of open society amid the current authoritarian resurgence.

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2021/2022 Annual Report

During the 2021/2022 academic year, the Open Society University Network continued to demonstrate that the power of a strong international network lies in its members’ shared values and its highly adaptable and integrated model. These qualities allowed OSUN to respond swiftly to urgent crises around the globe, displaying resilience in the face of emergencies in Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. It also enabled OSUN to address global challenges around climate change, public health, economic inequality, and threats to academic freedom. 

The report provides updates on the unique higher education ecosystem that OSUN is building, including a growing roster of courses serving 7,000+ students since inception. It shares details on OSUN’s advances in expanding access to higher education in places such as Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Jordan, and Kyrgyzstan, and in college-in-prison programs across the globe. Finally, it reports on the strong transnational network OSUN is building to foster civically engaged universities among its 45 partner institutions.

Page through the report below to learn more about OSUN and its proven ability to accomplish more collectively than member institutions might on their own. 

2021/2022 Annual Report

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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.

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