Educating a New Generation of Leaders

Ashesi is a private, non-profit liberal arts university located in Ghana, West Africa. Our mission is to educate a new generation of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders in Africa; to cultivate within our students the critical thinking skills, the concern for others and the courage it will take to transform their continent. Our vision: an African renaissance driven by a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders.

Founded in 2002 by Ghanaian Patrick Awuah, Ashesi offers a four-year bachelors program grounded in a liberal arts core curriculum, featuring majors in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, and Mechanical, Computer and Electronic & Electrical Engineering. With an academic program designed in collaboration with some of the world's best universities, and in partnership with local and multinational employers across Ghana, Ashesi has pioneered an educational experience like no other in Africa.

A unique curriculum with proven results

A rigorous liberal arts core fosters critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills.
Cutting-edge programs in business and technology prepare students to innovate in their fields.
Leadership seminars, community service projects and a rigorous honor code foster ethics.
Real-world projects challenge students to create innovative, practical solutions to Africa's needs.

Our graduates work for progress in Africa

70% of Ashesi graduates live and work in Africa.
The collective Ashesi curriculum and experience results in 93% of alumni finding placement in careers, starting graduate school, or launching businesses within six months of graduation.
Graduates help grow local and international businesses, and start new enterprises. Many help NGOs serve more people and be more effective.

Transforming the lives of women and students from poor families

54% of students receive financial aid.
48% of students are women.
39% of undergraduate engineering students are women.

Fostering diversity and harmony
Our 1,505 students from 34 countries come from diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.

A leveraged, sustainable model
Since 2008, 100% of Ashesi's operating expenses are funded by tuition, fees and other operating income. Donations help Ashesi grow, launch new programs and provide more scholarships to students in need. Ashesi is seeking partners to continue to expand our impact in Africa.

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INTRODUCTION

Ashesi University Foundation (“Ashesi”) is a 501(c)(3) tax‐exempt organization registered as a nonprofit corporation in the state of Washington, USA. Our mission is to educate a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders in Africa; to cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills, the concern for others, and the courage it will take to transform their continent.

At Ashesi, we value the importance of our supporters’ privacy and are committed to protecting it. We will do our best to protect the security of your data and will never sell or share your data with any other organization for marketing purposes.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose and protect your personal data.

Why does Ashesi collect personal data?

Ashesi collects and uses personal data to support our legitimate interest, as a nonprofit organization, in furthering our charitable mission. We may collect and store data on individuals who have interacted with or given to Ashesi in the past, who are employed by organizations which support Ashesi, or who have a strong alignment with Ashesi’s mission, among others, because we believe these activities to be in line with our mission of building a global community of support for Ashesi University. We may store information collected in alignment with these goals for as long as we deem it beneficial to our organization.

Our legitimate interest in furthering our charitable mission does not automatically override your interests, and we will not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). Your personal data will not be used for the purposes of automated decision making or profiling which produces a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

What is personal data?

“Personal Data” includes any and all information that allows Ashesi to identify you as an individual.

Personal data that Ashesi collects may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, donation history, employer, and other information about your identity. We may also collect information related to your relationship with Ashesi.

How does Ashesi collect my personal data?

Ashesi does not collect personal information from visitors to our site, unless the information is specifically provided by a visitor – for example, by subscribing to our newsletter.

How does Ashesi use my personal data?

The purposes for which Ashesi may use your personal data include:

To process donations made to Ashesi.
To provide information to those who may be interested in learning more about Ashesi’s work.
To help us maintain our relationship with those who have assisted us and supported our work in the past.
To personalize or otherwise improve our communications with our supporters.
To conduct research and outreach to individuals or organizations who we reasonably believe may have an interest in Ashesi’s work.
To administer and improve our organization.
To comply with our legal and contractual obligations.
To solicit donations to support our charitable mission.

Will Ashesi share my personal data?

Ashesi will never sell or rent your personal data to parties outside our organization. Occasionally, we may share your information with service providers who provide operational support to Ashesi. These partners will use your information only under our instruction, and never for their own purposes.

Examples of organizations with whom Ashesi may share your data include:

Communications platform (e.g. Constant Contact)
Printing press (e.g. Quality Press)
CRM platform (e.g. Salesforce)

How does Ashesi protect my data?

We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized disclosure of your personal data, and our site has security measures in place to protect the information under our control. Only authorized individuals at Ashesi or acting on Ashesi’s behalf have access to our database.

Where will my personal data be held?

Ashesi is headquartered in the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, be aware that your information may be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States, where our office is located. Personal data may occasionally be shared with our colleagues at Ashesi University in Ghana, or with members of our Board of Trustees (who may be situated anywhere in the world), if such sharing is necessary under our legitimate interest in advancing our charitable mission.

On some occasions, our use of your personal data may require express consent from you. We will never knowingly process data for a purpose which requires consent without obtaining such consent from you.

For example, if you are a citizen or resident of the European Union and thus subject to the GDPR, we will not knowingly send you our e‐newsletter unless you have opted in via our online subscription form or given express written permission to Ashesi for this activity.

Children

Ashesi follows the FTC guidelines for compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Ashesi does not knowingly solicit or collect personal data online from children under the age of 13.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to contact us to request access to the personal data we hold on you, the purposes for which that data has been processed, the period for which we intend to store it, and the identity of any third parties to whom it has been disclosed.
You have the right to request that we rectify outdated or incorrect personal data.
You have the right to restrict our use of your data.
You have the right to request that we permanently delete all of your personal data from our records.
If you believe that we have mishandled your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

If you have subscribed to our mailing list, you have the right to opt out of receiving materials from us at any time. Please note that an “opt‐out” of our mailing list does not constitute a request to have your personal data permanently deleted from our database.

If you have any questions about the content of this Privacy Policy, or wish to request that we cease holding or processing your personal data, you may contact us as at the following address:

1201 3rd Avenue
Suite 2200
Seattle, WA 98101
USA
Telephone: (206) 545‐6988
E‐mail: foundation@ashesi.org