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The Open Society University Network (OSUN), animated by the values of open society, is building a unique and vibrant model of global higher education. This model embodies the shared commitment among OSUN partners to learn from each other across geographic and demographic boundaries, promote academic freedom, critical thinking and evidence-based inquiry, and explore innovative solutions to the fundamental challenges of our time. OSUN both builds on and fosters a diversity of perspectives, which provides a vibrant source of learning and is integral to all that we do.

OSUN has embarked on a journey toward deep, cross-institutional partnerships and integration. We are embedding collaborative teaching, curriculum development, research, and civic engagement in our institutions. This collaboration is evident in the emerging OSUN curriculum focusing on many of the greatest challenges facing society, taught by faculty across the network in classrooms that bring students together from around the world.

OSUN is crafting new initiatives to advance the creation of knowledge through collaboration across continents. These initiatives draw on a diversity of scholarly traditions and research contexts to generate fresh insights on fundamental global challenges, such as political repression, inequality, technology’s impact on society, and the survival of our planet.

In addition, OSUN centers the public purpose of higher education — bringing rigorous higher education to marginalized communities, including prisons and refugee camps; providing opportunities for students across the globe, regardless of background, to integrate into global OSUN classrooms; and creating pathways for students in adverse circumstances to earn a university degree.

Finally, OSUN demonstrates the resilience of networks, supporting students, faculty, and institutions around the globe who are under assault, often because they value the principles of academic freedom and open society.

We take pride in how far we have come as a network in three academic years and affirm our shared commitment to forge further ahead in building our unique model of global higher education.