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Udacity: Sebastian Thrun: Update on our SJSU Plus Summer Pilot
We have some exciting news to share on our SJSU Plus Pilot. To remind everyone, with the encouragement of California Governor Brown, Udacity teamed up with SJSU to deliver for-credit college classes online. A key objective for this partnership has been to bring college education to students who are presently under-served and left out of higher education. This summer, we ran the second instance of our pilot. While in the Spring, we actively sought out underserved high schools from low-income areas in California, this time we simply opened up enrollment to anyone. As predicted, with 2,091 students who enrolled, we mainly reached students who would not ordinarily attend college. Only 11% of the summer students who took the for-credit courses from SJSU were matriculated students in one of the California State Universities. 71% of our students came from out of state or foreign countries. And while the total number of high school students went up, their proportion in the total st…