One Day University is an adult education

Adult education

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 program founded by Steven Schragis and John Galvin in 2006. The program's one-day sessions feature four or five lectures by leading American university professors. Originally based in the New York City

New York City

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 area, the program has spread to Boston

Boston

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, Philadelphia, Washington

Washington, D.C.

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, Florida

Florida

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 and California

California

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. It hosts events at leading colleges including Villanova , Babson and the College of Saint Elizabeth.

The school's faculty include Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 winners Jack Rakove and Gordon Wood

Gordon Wood

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, Bard College

Bard College

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 president Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein

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, social critic Andrew Delbanco

Andrew Delbanco

Dr. Andrew H. Delbanco is Director of American Studies at Columbia University and has been Columbia's Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities since 1995...

, Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 White House

White House

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 advisor Christine Heenan, Holocaust historian Jonathan Steinberg

Jonathan Steinberg

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, philosopher Tamar Gendler

Tamar Gendler

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, psychologist Paul Bloom, and legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar

Akhil Reed Amar

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.

In 2009, One Day University was acquired by Bill Zanker and The Learning Annex

The Learning Annex

The Learning Annex is a private continuing adult education school based in New York. It was founded in 1980 by Bill Zanker in his New York City studio apartment with an investment of only $5,000...

 to bring the live One Day University experience online for students around the world.

As part of The Learning Annex, One Day University held its biggest event ever on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at the Hilton Hotel in New York City

New York City

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. 5,000 students from around the country attended One Day U to learn from 17 professors from top tier schools, along with keynote speaker and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz

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. One year later, on October 3, 2010, 4,000 students returned to the Hilton in New York for another mega learning event. Faculty on that day included former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo

Mario Cuomo

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 and award-winning writer and Princeton

Princeton University

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 professor Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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. Hollywood legend and UCLA professor Peter Guber

Peter Guber

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taught at the March 13, 2011 event in New York City.