Academic Year 2020-2021 Financial Reward System
The financial reward system outlined here is a continuation of our previous efforts to partially compensate contributors for their work.
What are financial ... Read More
Emma Stiefel
70 Students told us about their experiences with financial aid. Here’s what we learned.
The Quest distributed a survey about financial aid to Minerva students. The 70 responses we received, though far from comprehensive, provide some insight into financial aid at a broad scale. Here’s what we learned.... Read More
Meet Minerva: Melissa Morgenstern, Student Accounts Manager
Get to know Melissa Morgenstern, Minerva’s Student Accounts Manager, as she shares about her career path, her work with financial aid at Minerva, and some embarrassing high school outfits. ... Read More
Constructing the Future of the Global Rotation
This article is the last in a series on the global rotation. You can also read a short piece introducing the project, the first article on the educational valu... Read More
A Tiny History of Big Data
Meet Walter. His full name was probably Walter Scott Kennedy Rutherford, but sometimes he went by Walter Scott Rutherford, and often his middle names were coll... Read More
CAPS at Minerva: The Class of 2021
Of the approximately 180 people in the class of 2021, most were on rotation in Berlin during Fall 2019. This semester in Berlin was the first where Minerva did... Read More
Student-Organized Day of Action Highlights Concerns about Financial Aid
On Monday, April 13, Minerva students organized a Day of Action to highlight widespread concerns about financial aid, especially the lack of transparent communication throughout the process. Students participated by emailing their professors about the issue and either skipping class, covering their cameras, or showing a dollar sign or similar protest message on screen.... Read More
Meekly’s Solution to Corona Chaos
Stay in the res hall? Book the first flight available? Avoid all human contact? Everything is uncertain, and there is no right decision. Instead of stressing, ... Read More
Announcing a Quest Series Analyzing Staff Perspectives on Minerva’s Global Rotation
Around two decades ago, Ben Nelson spent the summer after his third year of college working in Singapore. Before he flew to Asia, Nelson thought he was pretty ... Read More
Emma Stiefel
Editor-in-Chief, Class of 2021 Managing Editorr
Class of 2021; passionate about using storytelling to connect people and start conversations; currently looking for better ways to do both by combining humanities and technology.