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The Minerva Schools at KGI (also referred to as Minerva Schools or simply Minerva) are a four-year undergraduate program founded as a partnership between Minerva Project and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a member of the Claremont University Consortium. Minerva’s founder, former Snapfish president Ben Nelson, has referred to it as "the first elite American university to be launched in a century." Larry Summers, former Harvard University President and United States Secretary of the Treasury, chaired its first advisory board, joined by Bob Kerrey, former Democratic senator from Nebraska and president of the New School. The target market is the developing world's rising middle class who aims for an elite American education. == History == In April 2012, Minerva Project received in venture funding from Benchmark Capital to create the undergraduate program that would become the Minerva Schools at KGI.〔 Stephen Kosslyn joined Minerva in March 2013 to serve as Founding Dean. Prior to joining Minerva, Kosslyn served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard University. Kosslyn was responsible for hiring the heads of the four colleges in the School of Arts & Science and overseeing the development of Minerva's seminar-based curriculum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://s3.minervaproject.com/press-releases/Minerva_Announces_Stephen_Kosslyn_Founding_Dean_Release.pdf )〕 In July 2013, Minerva Project partnered with the Keck Graduate Institute to officially launch the Minerva Schools at KGI.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://s3.minervaproject.com/press-releases/Minerva_Project_and_KGI_Partner_for_Minerva_Schools_at_KGI.pdf )〕 Minerva received WASC accreditation for four of its programs: the Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences, the Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Humanities, the Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wascsenior.org/institutions/keck-graduate-institute-applied-life-sciences )〕 and the Bachelor of Science in Computational Sciences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kgi.edu/news-and-events/news-stories/2014/kgi-receives-approval-from-wasc-for-minerva-schools-undergraduate-program.html )〕 As of May 2015, Minerva's Business program is not yet accredited, though as articulated on the KGI website, Minerva is following established paths to accreditation. For its 2014 Founding Class, Minerva received 2,464 applications and granted 69 acceptances resulting in a 2.8% acceptance rate making Minerva "the most selective undergraduate program in U.S. history."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.minervaproject.com/press-releases/Minerva_Schools_at_KGI_Admit_Founding_Class.pdf )〕 The school's Founding Class matriculated in Fall 2014, numbering 29 students, each of whom received a full four-year scholarship. An additional in funding to the Minerva Schools at KGI was announced in October 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.minervaproject.com/press-releases/Minerva_Announces_70M_Additional_Funding.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minerva Schools at KGI」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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