:Hult International Business School

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| name = Hult International Business School

| image_name = HULT_IBS_Logo_Outline_Black_(cropped).png

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| motto = For Those Made to Do{{cite web|url=https://www.hult.edu/hult-study-promise/|title=Hult Study Promise|website=Hult International Business School|access-date=22 February 2023}}

| established = {{start date and age|1964}}

| type = Private business school

| president = Matt Lilley

| faculty = 478{{cite web|url=https://www.hult.edu/en/faculty/|title=International Business School Faculty – Hult|website=Hult Business School|access-date=17 April 2019}}

| students = 2,798{{cite web|url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=164368&start_page=index.php&clq=%7B|title=Carnegie Classifications – Institution Lookup|website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu|access-date=17 April 2019}}

| undergrad = 1,266{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hult-international-business-school-GB0001|title=U.S. News & World Report – Hult International Business School|website=usnews.com|access-date=17 April 2019}}

| postgrad = 1,532

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| campus = {{ubl|Cambridge, Massachusetts, US|London, England|San Francisco, California, US|Dubai, UAE|New York, New York, US|Ashridge, England}}

| website = {{URL|https://hult.edu}}

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| former_name = Arthur D. Little School of Management

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Hult International Business School (also known as Hult Business School or Hult) is a private business school with campuses in London, San Francisco, Dubai, New York City, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/hult-international-business-school/|title=Hult International Business School|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-08-02}} Hult is named for the school's benefactor Bertil Hult and is affiliated with the EF Education First Group.{{Cite news |title=Hult International Business School |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/whichmba/hult-international-business-school/2011 |access-date=2023-07-06 |issn=0013-0613}}

Hult is the successor of the Arthur D. Little School of Management, founded in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and of the Ashridge Business School, founded in 1959 in Ashridge, England.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamgordon/2017/03/14/ashridge-hult/|title=Ashridge Hult Offers Mindset Shift For Those 'Fed Up With Business School'|first=Adam|last=Gordon|website=Forbes|access-date=17 April 2019}} It offers undergraduate, master's, and MBA degree programs, as well as executive education through Hult Ashridge, housed on the Ashridge Estate campus. The school is also the patron of the Hult Prize, a student entrepreneur competition.{{Cite news|last=Milmo|first=Cahal|date=2021-10-08|title=Sexual misconduct allegations under investigation after Hult Prize suspension|language=en|website=iNews|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/hult-prize-sexual-misconduct-allegations-student-entrepreneur-competition-1239322|access-date=2021-10-28}}

History

=American background=

The Arthur D. Little School of Management was founded in 1964 by Arthur Dehon Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/node/21563826|title=Hult International Business School|date=10 April 2015|access-date=17 April 2019|newspaper=The Economist}} Originally developed as an executive management education program, the school began to grant degrees after receiving full accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in 1976.{{cite web|url=http://www.obhe.ac.uk/documents/2002/Articles/Arthur_D_Little_School_of_Management_world_s_only_example_of_an_accredited_corporate_university_sold_to_Kaplan_after_bankruptcy_of_parent_company|title=The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education – Arthur D. Little School of Management|website=obhe.ac.uk|access-date=17 April 2019|archive-date=15 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315122441/http://www.obhe.ac.uk/documents/2002/Articles/Arthur_D_Little_School_of_Management_world_s_only_example_of_an_accredited_corporate_university_sold_to_Kaplan_after_bankruptcy_of_parent_company|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/adlittle/timeline/1960.html|title=Arthur D. Little, Inc.: Exhibits: Institute Archives & Special Collections: MIT|website=libraries.mit.edu|access-date=5 August 2018|archive-date=15 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415200726/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/adlittle/timeline/1960.html|url-status=dead}} In 1996, the Arthur D. Little School of Management formed a partnership with Boston College's Carroll School of Management in order to share access to faculty and facilities.{{cite web|url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/adlittle/timeline/1990.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312174953/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/adlittle/timeline/1990.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-03-12|title=Arthur D. Little, Inc.: Exhibits: Institute Archives & Special Collections: MIT|website=libraries.mit.edu|access-date=2018-08-05}}

File:GOC Berkhamsted & Frithsden 047 Ashridge House, Little Gaddesden (27871282763).jpg's executive education program, housed in Ashridge House, was ranked in the UK's top 10 programs in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/10817144/Student-life-top-ten-UK-business-schools.html|title=Student life: top ten UK business schools|date=9 May 2014|access-date=17 April 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}]]

=British background=

In 1929, Ashridge was formally established as the College of Citizenship with the backing of the Conservative Party.{{cite journal|title=A glimpse at the archives of a Conservative intellectual project|journal=Contemporary British History |volume=19 |issue=1|year=2005}} In 1959, the college was re-established as a school of management under the name Ashridge Business School.{{cite web|url=http://home.btconnect.com/peter-grainger/rhs/ashridgecollege.html |title=Ashridge College |publisher=Rural Heritage Trust |access-date=11 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305172054/http://home.btconnect.com/peter-grainger/rhs/ashridgecollege.html |archive-date=5 March 2012}}

=Contemporary history=

File:Hult San Francisco Campus.jpg neighborhood, by Telegraph Hill.]]

In 2002 Arthur D. Little declared bankruptcy and the for-profit educational branch of the Washington Post, Kaplan Education, initiated the purchase of the Arthur D. Little School of Management (which had then changed its name to the Concord School of Management),{{Cite web |last=Clabaugh |first=Jeff |date=9 October 2002 |title=Kaplan acquires international business school |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/10/07/daily30.html |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=www.bizjournals.com}} but subsequently decided against the plan. At the time, the school had 26 students. The same year, Swedish billionaire Bertil Hult purchased the Arthur D. Little School of Management, which resulted in the school's reorganization and reestablishment as Hult International Business School in 2003.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AidFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160 |title=Rethinking the Business Models of Business Schools A Critical Review and Change Agenda for the Future|first1=Kai|last1=Peters|first2=Richard R.|last2=Smith|first3=Howard|last3=Thomas |year=2018|page=160|publisher=Emerald Publishing|isbn=978-1787548763}}

Under its restructuring, Hult established a new curriculum oriented on international business, which led to the establishment of Hult's global campuses in Dubai (2008), San Francisco (2010), Shanghai (2011), and New York (2014).{{cite web|url=https://www.thenational.ae/uae/education/hult-business-school-opens-dedicated-campus-in-dubai-internet-city-1.371776|title=Hult business school opens dedicated campus in Dubai Internet City|website=The National|date=20 September 2012|access-date=17 April 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hult.edu/blog/blog/hult-international-business-school-to-open-new-san-francisco-campus/|title=Hult International Business School to Open New San Francisco Campus Hult Blog|date=28 October 2009|website=hult.edu|access-date=17 April 2019}}

In 2007, Hult acquired Huron University in London, a private American university located in London's Bloomsbury neighborhood, which subsequently was reestablished as Hult International Business School's London campus.{{cite web|url=https://www.hult.edu/blog/blog/from-huron-to-hult/|title=From Huron to Hult Hult Blog|date=16 March 2009|website=hult.edu|access-date=17 April 2019}}

In 2014, Hult International Business School acquired and merged with Ashridge Business School, creating one of the largest business schools in the world.{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/c12b55b2-0368-11e4-817f-00144feab7de|title=Ashridge and Hult International announce plans to merge|first=Della|last=Bradshaw|date=4 July 2014|website=Financial Times|access-date=17 April 2019}} After 2015, the two schools began operating as a singular entity, with the establishment of Ashridge Executive Education as Hult's executive program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashridge.org.uk/about-us/governance/|title=Governance|website=Ashridge.org.uk|access-date=5 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402171716/https://ashridge.org.uk/about-us/governance/|archive-date=2 April 2016|url-status=dead}}

Hult opened its undergraduate campus in London, near the City of London financial centre, in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hult-international-business-school-expands-in-london-boston-and-san-francisco-513262371.html|title=Hult International Business School Expands in London, Boston, and San Francisco|publisher=Hult International Business School|website=www.newswire.ca|access-date=17 April 2019}}

The Economist Intelligence Unit, supported by Hult International Business School, launched the Business Professor of the Year Award in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://businessprofessoraward.com/ |title=Business Professor of the Year |access-date=2013-02-04 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20121223214209/http%3A//businessprofessoraward.com/ |archive-date=2012-12-23 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://businessprofessoraward.com/competitions/business-professor-of-the-year/pages/judges |title=Judges |access-date=2013-02-04 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130215160107/http://businessprofessoraward.com/competitions/business-professor-of-the-year/pages/judges |archive-date=2013-02-15 |url-status=dead}}

By 2014 Hult had become the world's largest graduate business school by enrollment.{{Cite web |date=2020-08-26 |title=Poets&Quants' 10 Biggest Scandals Of The Decade |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/poets-quants-10-biggest-scandals-191941987.html |access-date=2023-07-06 |publisher=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}}

Campuses

File:Hult Campus Dubai.jpg.]]

Hult maintains 7 campuses across 3 countries and serves approximately 3,000 students:{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/hult-international-business-school|title=Hult International Business School|date=2019-03-25|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}} two undergraduate and postgraduate campuses (London and Boston), three postgraduate campuses that serve as summer rotational campuses (San Francisco, Shanghai and Dubai) one solely postgraduate campuses (New York City), and one executive education campus (Ashridge Estate in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom). Students are encouraged to rotate between campuses during their programs.

The Hult London Undergraduate Campus, built by British firm Sergison Bates Architects, won the Royal Institute of British Architects National Award in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://sergisonbates.com/en/awards|title=Awards|website=sergisonbates.com|access-date=17 April 2019|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417051427/http://sergisonbates.com/en/awards|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pricemyers.com/profile/awards/2015/riba-award-hult-business-school|title=Price & Myers|website=www.pricemyers.com|access-date=17 April 2019|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417051431/https://www.pricemyers.com/profile/awards/2015/riba-award-hult-business-school|url-status=dead}}

Academics

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colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; \| Business school rankings{{cite web\|url=https://www.hult.edu/en/rankings\|title=Hult International Business School Ranking – Hult\|publisher=Hult Business School\|access-date=17 April 2019}}{{Citation needed\|reason=Needs independent third-party citation for each ranking\|date=August 2021}}
colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" \| School rankings
*Financial Times* – Global Ranking \| 54
Bloomberg – Global Ranking \| 100
colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" \| MBA rankings
*Forbes* – International 1-year MBAs \| 17
Bloomberg – International MBAs \| 58
*The Economist* – MBA \| 37
*The Economist* – Executive MBA \| 53
*Financial Times* – MBA \| 99
Financial Times – Executive MBAs \| 89
colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" \| Master of Intl. Business rankings
*The Economist* – Global Ranking \| 17
*Times Higher Education* – Global \| 19

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colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; | Business school rankings{{cite web|url=https://www.hult.edu/en/rankings|title=Hult International Business School Ranking – Hult|publisher=Hult Business School|access-date=17 April 2019}}{{Citation needed|reason=Needs independent third-party citation for each ranking|date=August 2021}}

colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" | School rankings

Financial Times – Global Ranking

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Bloomberg – Global Ranking

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colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" | MBA rankings

Forbes – International 1-year MBAs

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Bloomberg – International MBAs

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The Economist – MBA

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The Economist – Executive MBA

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Financial Times – MBA

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Financial Times – Executive MBAs

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colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA" | Master of Intl. Business rankings

The Economist – Global Ranking

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Times Higher Education – Global

| 19

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Hult conducts business and market research out of its global research centers.{{cite news|url=http://www.hult.edu/news/hult-real-time-research-with-google-and-ferrari-behind-the-scenes/ |title= Hult Real-time Research with Google and Ferrari: Behind the scenes |work=Hult News |first=Cassandra |last=Handley |date=July 7, 2017}}{{cite news|url=http://www.hult.edu/news/airbnb-hult-collaborate-groundbreaking-global-research-project/ |title=Airbnb and Hult Collaborate on Groundbreaking Global Research Project |work=Hult News |date=December 7, 2016}}

Hult International Business School has an acceptance rate of 28%.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/hult-international-business-school/|title=Hult International – Business School – School Admissions The Princeton Review B-School Rankings & GMAT Scores|website=www.princetonreview.com|access-date=2019-04-01}} It has over 19,000 alumni in over 156 countries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.accessmba.com/school/hult-international-business-school|title=Hult International Business School|website=www.accessmba.com|access-date=2019-06-19}}

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classifies Hult as a More Selective Institution.

=Rankings=

Hult's Master of International Business program was ranked #17 in The Economist{{'}}s ranking of Masters in Management programs worldwide in 2019.

In 2020, Hult's Ashridge Executive Education was ranked #16 in the Financial Times Executive Education Top 50 Schools list.{{Cite web|last1=Chan|first1=Wai Kwen|last2=Cremonezi|first2=Leo|date=2020-05-10|title=Financial Times Executive Education 2020: the top 50 schools|url=https://www.ft.com/content/36c1e468-8f2b-11ea-9e12-0d4655dbd44f|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB}}

In 2022, Hult's Executive MBA was ranked among the top 100 in the world in the QS International Trade Rankings.{{Cite web |title=QS International Trade Rankings 2023 |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/international-trade-rankings/2023 |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}

=EY Tech MBA by Hult=

On 1 July 2020, Hult and Ernst & Young (EY) announced the EY Tech MBA by Hult, consisting of online learning, practical experiences, insight papers and a capstone project. This MBA is now offered by EY free to all its people, regardless of rank or location and can be done over any duration. The curriculum is updated every four months.{{cite web |url=https://www.hult.edu/blog/hult-collaborates-with-ernst-young-to-offer-the-virtual-ey-tech-mba-by-hult-for-eys-employees/ |title=Hult collaborates with Ernst & Young to offer the virtual EY Tech MBA by Hult for EY's employees |website=hult.edu |date=30 June 2020 |access-date=2020-07-10}}

Hult Prize

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Hult International Business School is the lead sponsor of the Hult Prize (formerly Hult Global Case Challenge), an annual international case competition launched in 2010 that asks students to find solutions to global social challenges.{{cite web |url=http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/12/hult-global-case-challenge-launches-waterorg |title=Hult Global Case Challenge Launches with Water.org |publisher=Triple Pundit |access-date=2010-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816110457/http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/12/hult-global-case-challenge-launches-waterorg/ |archive-date=2011-08-16 |url-status=dead }} The Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the United Nations Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://press.clintonglobalinitiative.org/index.php?s=43&item=97 |title=CGI Members Made Nearly 300 New Commitments To Address Global Challenges; Since CGI Launched, Commitments Worth $63 Billion Have Improved the Lives of Nearly 300 Million People in More Than 170 Countries|publisher=Clinton Global Initiative |access-date=2010-09-23}}

The best teams from each regional event advance to a global final, at which a single winning team is chosen. Bertil Hult provides a $1 million cash grant to help fund the winning solution.{{cite web|url=http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2012/09/24/bill-clinton-favorites-hult-global-case-challenge/|title=Innovation Excellence – Bill Clinton Favorites Hult Global Case Challenge|access-date=2013-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004015721/http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2012/09/24/bill-clinton-favorites-hult-global-case-challenge/|archive-date=2012-10-04|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8c9679f4-f0b0-11df-8cc5-00144feab49a.html#axzz1D36QcXMp |title=Matt Damons Charity Benefits From Global MBA Advice|newspaper=Financial Times |date=15 November 2010|access-date=2010-11-15}}

Notable alumni

Thabo Mbeki, 2nd President of South Africa{{Cite web |url=https://www.primeinfo24.com/2018/11/thabo-mbeki-biography-age-wiki-wife-children-family-books-awards-profile/ |title=Prime Info 24 – Thabo Mbeki Biography, Age, Wiki, Wife, Children, Family, Books, Awards, Profile |access-date=2019-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416234420/https://www.primeinfo24.com/2018/11/thabo-mbeki-biography-age-wiki-wife-children-family-books-awards-profile/ |archive-date=2019-04-16 |url-status=dead }}
Htin Kyaw, 9th President of MyanmarPublic Radio International – [https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-10/meet-myanmar-s-new-puppet-president Who the heck is Myanmar’s new president?]
Luis Abinader, current President of the Dominican Republic[https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/07/07/2058804/0/en/GoldQuest-Congratulates-Dominican-Republic-s-President-elect-Mr-Luis-Abinader.html GlobeNewswire – GokdQuest Congratulates Dominican Republic's President-Elect Luis Abinader]
Gary Smith, CEO of Ciena[https://www.ciena.com/about/leadership/gary-smith.html Ciena Leadership: Gary Smith]
André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter, CEO of Gerdau{{cite web|title=André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter: Executive Profile & Biography|website = Bloomberg News|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1470098&privcapId=402894|access-date=14 March 2017}}
Hixonia Nyasulu, Chairwoman of SasolAlliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – [https://agra.org/who-we-are-our-leadership-old/thembalihle-hixonia-nyasulu/ AGRA Leadership: Thembalihle Hixonia Nyasulu]
Oba Otudeko, Founder of Honeywell Group and Forbes Africa's 40 Richest{{Cite web|title=Oba OTUDEKO|url=https://www.theafricaceoforum.com/en/portraits/oba-otudeko/|access-date=2021-05-08|website=The AFRICA CEO FORUM|language=fr}}
Walter Bayly Llona, CEO of Credicorp{{Cite web |title=BAP.P – Credicorp Ltd. (USA) Profile |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/BAP/ |access-date=2021-05-08 |website=Reuters |language=en}}{{Dead link|date=April 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Shaun Gregory, CEO of Exterion Media{{Cite web|title=Shaun Gregory, BTI Studios Ltd: Profile and Biography|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/7231648|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Bloomberg.com|language=en}}
Nataliey Bitature, 2016 World Economic Forum's Top 5 African Innovators & 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30{{Cite web|title=Nataliey Bitature {{!}} Co-founder and COO, Musana Carts|url=https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/nataliey-bitature|access-date=2021-05-08|website=blogs.worldbank.org|date=13 July 2017 |language=en}}
Anil Shastri, Indian parliamentarian; son of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri{{Cite web|title=LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, BAREILLY|url=http://www.lbsimt.com/board_of_governors.aspx|access-date=2021-05-08|website=www.lbsimt.com}}
Mbaranga Gasarabwe, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and SecurityUnited Nations – [https://www.un.org/press/en/2011/sga1288.doc.htm Secretary-General Appoints Mbaranga Gasarabwe of Rwanda Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security]
Juan Cohen, parliamentarian in the Central American Parliament[http://www.pnvc.org.do/el-partido/perfiles/juan-cohen-sander/ Partido Nacional Voluntad Ciudadana – Juan Cohen Sander]{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Tonika Sealy-Thompson, Barbados' Ambassador to Brazil{{Cite web|first=John|last=Hickey|date=2019-07-18|title=Madam Ambassador: The unusual trip from Barbados to Berkeley to Brazil|url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/07/18/madam-ambassador-the-slightly-weird-trip-from-barbados-to-berkeley-to-brazil/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Berkeley News|language=en-US}}