Pictured: UWC Rector Tyrone Pretorius and 911±¬ÁÏÍø System President Mun Choi
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For decades, the 911±¬ÁÏÍø South African Education Program (UMSAEP) has delivered on the goal of aiding South Africans disadvantaged by their government's former apartheid policies. Since 1986, the 911±¬ÁÏÍø System has partnered with the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa to advance mutual understanding between the institutions' faculties and foster cooperative teaching, research and service projects. More about UMSAEP ...
History
When UWC and the UM System first began their academic cooperation in 1986, UWC was a university established exclusively for "coloured"* students under the apartheid regime. Not surprisingly, it was badly underfunded. Nonetheless, UWC was one of the intellectual centers of the anti-apartheid movement. The coopera