Sal Khan ‘reimagines education’ in CCNY Rudin Lecture

Sal Khan, the educator and entrepreneur whose mission is to provide a free, world-class education to millions globally, presents The City College of New York’s 2019 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture on April 1. Entitled “Reimagining Education,” it starts 4 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theater of CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, located at 129 Convent Ave. & West 135th St., in Manhattan.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a free online education platform through which he pursues his goal to provide free, quality education to anyone anywhere. The Academy’s content and mastery learning platform has over 71 million registered users from around the world and has been localized into more than 30 languages.

As of December 2018, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube had more than 4.5 million subscribers and its videos had been viewed more than 1.6 billion times.  Khan is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar school associated with the Khan Academy.

In 2012, Time Magazine named Khan to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s also been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine.

Khan holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard University.

Launched in 1996, the Rudin Lecture is now in its 23rd year. This year’s talk is co-sponsored by the Siegel Family Endowment.

Previous Rudin Scholars have included: former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite; former Congresswoman Patricia S. Schroeder; author Walter Mosley, ’91MA; former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; filmmaker Ric Burns; Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan.

About the Samuel Rudin Lecture
The Samuel Rudin Visiting Scholars Lecture provides an opportunity for members of the college community to interact with outstanding scholars, business leaders, and government officials, enriching the education experience on campus. The program is also intended to foster communication within the academic community of New York City. Samuel Rudin, a civic and philanthropic leader in New York City, was a member of the Class of 1918 at City College and went on to a prominent real estate career. The Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program is supported by a grant from the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.

About the Siegel Family Endowment
Siegel Family Endowment (SFE) supports organizations working at the intersections of learning, workforce, and infrastructure, and champions work that ensures all people have the tools, skills, and context necessary to engage meaningfully in a rapidly changing society. SFE was founded in 2011 by computer scientist and entrepreneur David M. Siegel, a co-founder of Two Sigma.

About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its role at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.2% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight professional schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself.  View CCNY Media Kit.