SF’s Project Roomkey: Responding to COVID-19 among Homeless Populations
This spring, governments of all levels issued COVID-19-induced border closures, lockdowns, quarantines, and shelter-in-place orders. For San Francisco, the cit... Read More
Reports
News and fact-based stories focused on Minerva Schools and the Minerva student community. Reports must contain more sources of information than the creator’s own experiences, including interviews and public documents. Reports are edited and fact-checked at least twice by at least two Quest editors.
Adding Up Student Visa Fees for Minerva’s Global Rotation
All Minerva students have to pay student visa fees in order to complete the global rotation, but the total amount varies significantly depending on nationality... Read More
Shipping Financial Aid Packages from a US-Based University to a Global Student Body
This piece is part of our ongoing reporting on financial aid. You can also read a report about transparency and communication in financial aid, our series of f... Read More
Transparency and communication in Minerva’s financial aid process
This piece is part of our ongoing reporting on financial aid. You can also read a series of financial aid-focused student profiles, an analysis of a student su... Read More
2nd Year Rotation Changes 2020-2021
This year the Class of 2023 faces unexpected changes to their global rotation. Typically, the second year rotation cities are Seoul, South Korea in the fall an... Read More
2020-2021 Student Handbook Changes
At the end of June, the Minerva administration released the 2020-2021 Student Handbook and a Document of Changes to the handbook. Most of this year’s changes r... Read More
Precedent: Minerva begins programs to address racism
During the week of June 22, Minerva hosted Precedent, a series of four conversations between Minerva students, alumni, staff, faculty, and external guests about racism in the United States. Minerva administration celebrated Precedent as a valuable first step towards further change — its tagline is “Ideas Precede Action.” Multiple students, however, questioned the value of Precedent, including three who published their arguments on the Quest.... Read More
CAPS at Minerva: COVID-19 Response
As part of a series on the Counseling And Psychological Services (CAPS) team at Minerva, below are short overviews of how CAPS responded to the COVID19 pandemi... Read More
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
April 2020 Financial Aid Town Hall
ASM moderated a financial aid town hall on Friday, April 17, following the Day of Action that Monday which called for changes to some of Minerva’s financial aid practices. The senior team and relevant staff were present to answer student questions.... Read More