Tag Archives: Ashoka Fellows
Ashoka U and GOOD recognize the GOOD Maker Challenge winners
Just over two months ago, 400 entrepreneurial leaders in higher education met at Arizona State University for the 2012 Ashoka U Exchange. We wanted to know: Can only two days of inspiration, learning, and sharing in a collaborative environment lead … Continue reading
Rippling Available for Sale Today
Rippling reveals proven principles that drive significant change and draws on Beverly Schwartz’s vast knowledge and experience of working with hundreds of the world’s top social change leaders. Schwartz is vice president at Ashoka, the global organization that works to … Continue reading
The Ashoka U Exchange: Reflections from a Star-Struck Student
By Danielle Barbeau, student at the University of San Diego and member of the Ashoka U Live Team I admit it. At the Ashoka U Exchange I was a little star struck. Some people get googley-eyed and weak-kneed at the … Continue reading
Linda Kay Klein about A Meaningful Career
By Brian McCollow, senior student at Arizona State University and member of the Ashoka U Live team. This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring Ashoka U Exchange participants discussing “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education.” This week we feature Linda … Continue reading
Bloggers conference call at Ashoka U Exchange
Are you a blogger interested in how universities can develop the changemakers of the future? Do you believe campuses are key partners in social change? If so, call-in to a bloggers conference call on February, 10th, from 4:00 pm to 4:40 pm MST during the Ashoka … Continue reading
Lynn Price on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: Bust Out and Make It Happen!
By Danielle Barbeau, graduate student at University of San Diego and member of the Ashoka U Live team. Lynn Price, of Denver, Colorado, is an Ashoka Fellow, author of the book Vision For A Change: A Social Entrepreneur’s Insights From … Continue reading
Tulane University: Evolution of a Campus
“Really, we had no choice,” President Scott Cowen writes. “The fates of the university and the city were one and the same.” In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Tulane University was faced with a choice: it could admit defeat and … Continue reading
Lessons Learned: How To Leverage An Ashoka Fellow On Your Campus
Marquette University joined Ashoka U as a Changemaker Campus in 2010. Over the course of the past year, their Faculty Champion, Jeff Snell, has worked with Ashoka U to help drive Marquette’s social entrepreneurship initiatives. One of the very first … Continue reading
Empathy & Change
Submitted by Tommy Tobin & Geoff Finger, Ashoka Spring Associates What are the primary traits of Changemakers? Innovation, certainly. A restless devotion to systemic change is integral. But more elementally, what underlies both of these developed values? When one looks … Continue reading
Tuition-free? Welcome to the University of the People
Last week, we sat down with Shai Reshef, Ashoka Fellow and social entrepreneur in higher education. Reshef is the founder and president of the University of the People. UoPeople is devoted to providing universal access to quality, post-secondary education to qualified students, … Continue reading
