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Pictured: UWC Rector Tyrone Pretorius and ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ of Missouri ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ President Mun Choi

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For decades, the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ of Missouri 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 ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ of Missouri ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ has partnered with the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ 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 ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ 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 cooperative agreement between UWC and the UM ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ was the first of its kind between a non-white South African university and a U.S. university. Today, UWC operates under a non-racial, democratic philosophy and has been recognized as the 7th best university in Africa. View  to learn more about the story of the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ of Missouri South Africa Exchange Program.

*In South Africa, the term "coloured" is used to describe anyone of mixed race and is not considered a derogatory term.