How to pronounce“ashesi”in English

Ashesi, see I already screwed it up.

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And they think Ashesi is a place that they can get those kinds of people.

She got to Ashesi on a scholarship, a significant scholarship.

to be at Ashesi and I made the cut in terms of getting financial assistance.

What are the criteria to get into Ashesi?

a very important part of making Ashesi what it is for everybody.

So, the name Ashesi comes from the Akan word for "beginnings."

So, Ashesi, as you can see on the slides--on this first slide--is really about a new Africa.

And that's why Ashesi is called what it's called--the beginning.

We have a requirement for community service at Ashesi.

As we set about thinking about the next ten years of Ashesi, we asked ourselves, "There's so many things that we could be doing.

But it would be really cool if we could replicate Ashesi.

is there a way that we can inject the Ashesi DNA, the Ashesi ethos into those institutions?"

So, Ashesi. Okay, Esi Ansah of Axis and Ashesi, that is a tongue twister.

I think it was four years later, Ashesi admitted its first students.

It's now ten years after that and the tenth anniversary of Ashesi, Ashesi students are already changing the face of education in Africa.

And so, we've implemented that at Ashesi--this mix of the liberal arts with computer science, business administration, and MIS.

And Ashesi stands out.

And finally, please be an online advocate for Ashesi.

Last January or so, I was at Ashesi before you made the new campus.

There were some students from the University of Ghana that came to Ashesi and asked to have lunch with me to talk about this.

Female #1: Another thing I noticed when I was back in Ghana at Ashesi, was that the founders of DreamOval as well as other entrepreneurs had really great ideas and really

I talk with chief executives in the country who have now decided that Ashesi is going

Recently, GE entered Ghana and they hired from Ashesi to open up their Accra office.

day there would be like, ten Ashesi's in Africa.

20 years later, I would argue that Ashesi University is the best university in Africa, and what this has to do with legacy admissions is

First, let me say that Ashesi is only 22 years old.

It's incredible validation for the university that somebody sends their daughter to Ashesi and then two years later their son joins them and so on.

want them to know that my parents couldn't afford to be at Ashesi.

So, what I thought I'd do this afternoon is just tell you the story of Ashesi--of why it's here, of what it is today, and what it is going to become in the future as we plan

Male #1: How did the other universities react when you set up Ashesi?

a more difficult question because I feel that, for Ashesi anyway, it has required high touch.

And so, for example, when an Ashesi alum goes and works in a bank and goes to their manager

So, Ashesi student body is very diverse.

The third thing I want to say is that, especially early on when Ashesi first started, we had a situation where

I do think that society should come to terms with what I would call the business model of Ashesi,

My name is Esi Ansah, and I'm here at Ashesi University.

They're being told they need to change a little bit, become a little bit more like Ashesi.

it, as corporate leaders have spoken out in favor of it, as high school students are so fascinated by this thing, that when we go talk with them about Ashesi, this is a thing

Because we have committed to that, and because we have committed to engaging in a conversation, in 2006, Ashesi students elected a woman as Head of Student Government for the first time

And I think that there is, today, very widespread acknowledgment that the Ashesi experiment

My experience has been the people who have put pressure on me for this, I think after the fact, respect me more for the stand that we've taken at Ashesi.

is not something that you would have seen, but you see that today, because of the work that we're doing in Ashesi.

One of the things that we're trying to do is to raise extra money, sort of emergency funding, and the executive team at Ashesi set up an executive emergency fund that we

Female #3: So, what are your ideas for making Ashesi scale?

Well, let me say that, first of all, when I started Ashesi, I had this idea that one

Well, Patrick, let's start what motivated you to create Ashesi university?

And that way, we get a cross-section of society in this class of students that are going to come to Ashesi.