Selection Process

The selection process enables Ashoka U to make a comprehensive evaluation of the institution and helps us develop a portfolio of institutional strengths and unique contributions to the field.

Pre-requisite:
Your campus completed the 360˚ Campus Scan, which led to a recommendation for the Changemaker Campus designation – $2,500.

Phase 1 – Interviews:
Based on input from Ashoka U interviews, your change team refines your institution’s 360˚ Campus Scan portfolio for submission to the selection panel.

Phase 2 – Site Visit:
Ashoka U conducts a selection site visit for interviews with senior leaders and other key allies on campus, and for final evaluation and coaching for the selection panel – $5,000

Phase 3 – Selection Panel:
The Changemaker Campus selection panel – hosted in conjunction with Ashoka’s Fellow selection – will include senior Change Leaders from current Changemaker Campuses, Ashoka staff, Ashoka U advisors, and Ashoka Fellows.

Previous Changemaker Campus selection panelists include:

    Judith Cone, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
    Derek Ellerman, Founder of Polaris Project and Shift.org, and Ashoka Fellow
    Kevin Hovland, Senior Director of Global Learning and Curricular Change, Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
    Ariane Hoy, Senior Program Officer, The Bonner Foundation
    Linda Kay Klein, Director, Work on Purpose, Echoing Green
    Rich Leimsider, Director of Fellow and Alumni Programs, Echoing Green
    Jane Leu, Founder and CEO, Smarter Good, and Ashoka Fellow
    Margaret Meagher, Program Manager of Youth Learning, The MasterCard Foundation
    Kim Meredith, Executive Director, Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society and Stanford Social Innovation Review
    Cate Muther, Guest Faculty, Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
    Paul M. Rogers, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director, Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship
    Suzi Sosa, Executive Director, Dell Social Innovation Challenge
    Stephen Toben, President, Flora Family Foundation
    Diana Wells, President, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

On-boarding:

Within a week of the Changemaker Campus selection panel, we will notify you of your designation as Changemaker Campus and begin to prepare for a launch and designation ceremony at the Ashoka U Exchange – $10,000

Please note: Institutions only move on to the next phase, if the current phase has been sufficiently satisfied.

To learn more about the Changemaker Campus selection process, please contact Beeta Ansari at bansari@ashoka.org.