Woolf is a global collegiate higher education institution

With constituent colleges located across the world, and four official languages, Woolf’s degrees are recognized in over 60 countries. All Woolf colleges must meet the same standards of excellence, but they each offer students unique approaches to the academic experience, based on their culture, language, and research focus.

\ Mission

Woolf exists to promote academic excellence, broaden access to higher education, and guard values that are humane, democratic, and international. Above all, Woolf values freedom of thought, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression.

Background

Talent may be evenly distributed but opportunity is not – we are working to widen the horizon of opportunity by connecting students and teachers across the world.

Education

Woolf prioritizes an education that will serve its students both in the near-term and in the long-term. Woolf seeks to provide a personalized, bespoke education. In all fields, Woolf seeks to instill values of curiosity, intellectual discipline, and clarity of expression.

Research

Woolf prioritizes research-driven teaching that uses the latest academic scholarship, and Woolf encourages its faculty members to engage in groundbreaking research.

Democratic polity

Woolf places confidence in its active faculty members, all of whom are encouraged to contribute to the direction of Woolf through the Faculty Council. We defend and encourage civility of discourse.

Collegiate organization

Woolf’s collegiate organization strengthens the institution through diversity, competition, and loyalty. Colleges bear responsibility for the support.

Society

Woolf encourages partnerships with governments, educational institutions, research centers, schools, and businesses of all kinds – provided these partnerships do not infringe on the values of Woolf.

Technology

To the extent that existing or new technologies can improve the educational outcomes for students, widen access to the Woolf global community, improve the career experience of academics.

\ WAAC

The Woolf Academic Advisory Council (WAAC) guides the institution in its effort to achieve our mission for global educational excellence. The WAAC advises senior leadership on strategic planning, regulatory development, and achieving Woolf’s top priorities as it establishes a global collegiate presence.

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\ QAETAC

The Woolf Quality Assurance, Enhancement, and Technology Alignment Committee (QAETAC) is tasked with promoting a culture of excellence that reflects the Woolf QA Policy in line with the Woolf Mission Statement. It plays a pivotal role in upholding the high international standards of excellence in education that define Woolf.

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\ History

Founded in January 2018, Woolf was established with the mission of increasing access to world-class higher education while ensuring that its qualifications are globally recognized and transferable.

With deep administrative investments in systems that monitor quality throughout the institution, Woolf has gained an expertise in launching innovative new programs for academics. Woolf has created over member 30 colleges to date and now launches one new college every month.

Founded by Dr. Joshua Broggi, then a faculty member at the University of Oxford, the institution continues in the venerable tradition of collegiate universities. Unlike traditional universities, Woolf’s administrative processes have always been digital, and the colleges are dispersed around the world, rather than located in a single town.

\ Why we are called Woolf

Woolf gets its name from Virginia Woolf, one of the great English writers of the 20th-century. Of particular inspiration, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, explore themes of academic freedom (especially for women), education as a means of professional and economic empowerment, and the outlines of a more perfect university.

These works highlighted the profound link between education on the one hand, and peace and prosperity on the other, and they exam ways to overcome conventions that oppress people and prevent freedom and the full realization of one’s potential.

At Woolf, we work tirelessly to increase access to high quality education, often applying technology to obscure regulatory processes in order to support academics and students in their pursuit of truth and learning.

It is in honor of Virginia Woolf’s visionary ideals and her advocacy for equality and empowerment that we bear the name Woolf.