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Coursera: Introducing the 2014 Rotation of Coursera's University Advisory Board
With the start of the New Year, we are pleased to welcome the latest rotation of leaders to Coursera’s University Advisory Board (UAB): David Lee, Provost of Princeton University; Sir Tim O’Shea, Principal of the The University of Edinburgh; Ben Polak, Provost of Yale University; and Wei Shyy, Provost of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We are indebted to our outgoing UAB members Chris Eisgruber, formerly Provost and now President of Princeton University, who is replaced by his successor, David Lee; John Etchemendy, Provost of Stanford University; Peter Lange, Provost of Duke University; and Phyllis Wise, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These individuals, and the universities that they represent, have had a major impact on Coursera’s growth, and we are grateful for their thoughtful guidance and service to the cause of advancing global education. “I wish to extend my deep personal thanks and express our collec…