Ono Academic College

Ono Academic College (in Hebrew: הקריה האקדמית אונו) is a private college located in Kiryat Ono, Israel. With over 14,000 students,[2] the college is among Israel's fastest growing institutions of higher education. OAC"s stated mission is to decrease economic and cultural gaps in Israeli society.[3] As a result, populations that are otherwise underrepresented in Israeli higher education, including Druze, Bedouin, Palestinians, Ethiopian-Israelis, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and students with special needs, gravitate to OAC.[4][5][6][7]

Ono Academic College
הקריה האקדמית אונו‎
TypePrivate
Established1995
ChancellorMoshe Ben Horin
PresidentMoshe Ben Horin
Students14,000[1]
Location
Kiryat Ono
,
Israel
Websitewww.ono.ac.il
Ono Academic College main campus, Kiryat Ono
Ono Academic College Ultra-Orthodox campus, Or Yehuda

History

Ono Academic College was founded in 1995 by entrepreneur Ranan Hartman,[8][9] son of renowned Orthodox rabbi and philosopher David Hartman,[3] as a response to the marginalization of Israel's minorities and the overall inaccessibility of the country's higher education system.[2][10][11]

OAC's satellite campuses in Or Yehuda and Jerusalem offer a program geared toward the Haredi Jewish population by allowing men and women to attend classes on different days. The college also has a substantial enrollment of Ethiopian-Israeli students.[12][13]

Criticism

Segregation

Ono College has a reputation for gender segregation for ulta-orthodox Jewish students, but it also has a policy of segregating Jews and Arabs on its “multicultural campus”. Palestinians and Jewish Israelis attend separate courses in separate buildings.[14]

Management

The institute budget based almost entirely on tuition payments. Over the years had been discovered irregularities, inflated salaries and nepotism. [15] [16] [17] Moreover, investigation showed that senior managers used the college credit cards for personal needs. [18] In 2019 Ono Academic College commenced recovery program: teaching hours reduced, medium level lectures cut in 10%, staff required to teach without payment, hourly payment decreaced and staff and adminstration persons got fired. [19]

Academic units

Faculties

  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Business Administration
  • Faculty of Health Professions
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Marketing Communications
  • Jonathan Wohl School of Music[20]

Campuses

  • Kiryat Ono - Main academic campus
  • Or Yehuda - Haredi campus
  • Jerusalem - Satellite campus, including additional facilities for Haredi students
  • Haifa - Satellite campus

Degrees awarded

Relations with other universities

Ono Academic College and the Center for Israeli Legal Studies at Columbia Law School co-host an annual legal conference focused on Israeli legal issues at the Columbia University campus in New York City.[21][22]

In June 2017, the Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center at Ono Academic College hosted a week-long legal seminar for undergraduate students focused on labor law, intellectual property, equality, and the challenges that innovative technologies pose to the law, in several locations across New York City and Connecticut, including Yale Law School, New York University School of Law, and Fordham University School of Law.[23]

In late 2017, the Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center at Ono Academic College joined forces with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva and the Swiss Center for Comparative Research in Lausanne to produce a three-day seminar on innovations in intellectual property law.[24]

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. "About Us - Friends of Ono". Ono Academic College. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  2. "About Us – Friends of Ono Academic College". Friends.ono.ac.il. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  3. "Israel's Ono College: The dream of a shared society".
  4. Dattel, Lior (2010-12-31). "A Quiet Revolution". Haaretz.
  5. "Muslim couple receives MA in Jewish Studies". 2017-07-26.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2017-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Israel's Ono College: The dream of a shared society".
  8. "Leadership – Friends of Ono Academic College".
  9. Stocks (2020-02-12). "Stocks". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  10. Dattel, Lior (2010-12-31). "A Quiet Revolution". Haaretz.
  11. "A dangerous disconnect: Making millennials proud of Israel".
  12. "Ethiopian-Israelis achieve their dream". 2014-03-26.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2017-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. Or Kashti, Yanal Jbareen: Jerusalem College Segregates Arabs and Jews on Its “Multicultural” Campus Haaretz, 4 November 2021.
  15. Sapir Peretz (January 6, 2005). Ono Academic College got approval - although extraodinary salaries discovered. Globes.
  16. Gur Megido (March 26, 2015). Warning investigation against Ono Academic College's managers. Globes.
  17. Tali Heruti-Sover‎ (August 28, 2018). Ono's millionaires: The college paid in 2017 to Yaron Zelekha and Zohar Goshen over 1 million shekels each. The Marker.
  18. Tali Heruti-Sover‎ (December 10, 2017). Ono Academic College presents: over the budget salaries and luxury cars for senior staff - and employee firing. The Marker.
  19. Tali Heruti-Sover‎ (June 3, 2020). The college cut off millions to students - and paid to five seniors 8.3 million shekels. The Marker.
  20. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. "Israeli Legal Studies".
  22. "The 11th Annual Columbia-Ono Conference – Friends of Ono Academic College".
  23. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2017-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2017-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  25. "Israel Institute on Cognitive Accessibility website". Retrieved 11 October 2019.

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