So many of these blog posts here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - are founding stories for MIT OCW-centric World University and School, planned for all languages and countries, and as wiki.


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I was looking up founding narratives of the Universities of Cambridge (1209) and Oxford (1096?) today, as some of the greatest and oldest ones, and was amazed at the significance and arbitrariness of the "place" of the now cities of Cambridge and Oxford (and how old they are) and also how they've changed so much over the centuries but are also so continuous as university institutions.

University of Cambridge -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge

University of Oxford -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford


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Harvard was established in 1636, by way of comparison -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University


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Curious too about how these universities became effectively accredited, compared with the process which WUaS is going through.



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Here's a

List of oldest universities in continuous operation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation

... so I think WUaS is one of the youngest universities in the world, by way of comparison.


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What's also interesting about these MIT OCW-centric WUaS founding blog posts is how MIT, hippy and Friendly they are. Are these MIT, hippie and Quaker "memes" (replicating cultural units) informing WUaS?