University of the People is first of all an American non-profit institution of higher education headquartered in Pasadena, California, United States. Knowing that the mission statement of an organization constitutes of the cultural values of that organization, give me the platform to say that from the mission statement of UoPeople, one can clearly get a clue of what its culture is all about. Therefore, the mission statement of UoPeople is “....to offer affordable, quality, online, degree-granting educational programs to any qualified student”. Retrieved from http://www.uopeople.edu/about/uopeople/mission-values/ (accessed Saturday, 31 December, 2016). From the mission statement, one can deduce its cultural values as:
Opportunity
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Integrity
UoPeople lay emphasis on personal and institutional professionalism, with the expectation that all participants are honest, responsible, and maintain a seriousness of purpose that promotes peace, tolerance, and understanding among the peoples of the world.
Quality
UoPeople also believes that with academic program that is strict, suited to the challenges of today, and assessed on an ongoing basis will result in quality education. In addition to that, UoPeople also tend to affiliate with some traditional academic community such as the research partner of Yale Law School's Information Society Project, New York University that announced to consider eligible UoPeople students for acceptance to its campus in Abu Dhabi, as well as University of California Berkeley in order to help in the quality of education from