Ashoka U and TechChange Twitter Chat: Tech Innovations, Social Entrepreneurs, and Higher Ed Beeta Ansari in Guest Bloggers • July 20, 2011 Submitted by John C. Townsend Do you have an idea for new models in higher education? Are you interested in what universities will look like 10, 20, and 50 years from now? Join TechChange and Ashoka…
Innovations Ashoka U seeks to recognize globally relevant teaching, learning, and partnership practices that may be adapted and replicated across the field.
Ashoka U Recognizes Inaugural Innovation Award Winners Michèle Leaman in Uncategorized • February 2, 2011 Founded in 1980, the mission of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public focuses on the overwhelming need for a “competitive citizen sector.” Competition allows social entrepreneurs to thrive by proposing…
Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) – 2015 Awardee Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) is an interdisciplinary development lab for scaling innovations in global health. Working in partnership with USAID, SEAD mobilizes a community of…
#SocEntChat on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education with Michael Horn Beeta Ansari in Ashoka • February 1, 2012 Do you have an opinion about what disruption innovations there are in Higher Education? Are you interested in what kinds of barriers there are to bring innovations to colleges and universities? Are…
Q&A: Ron Cordes on the Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Awards Marina Kim in Exchange • December 7, 2011 Along with his wife Marty, Ron Cordes is the Co-Founder of the Cordes Foundation. He is also a Regent of the University of the Pacific, as well as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the university’s…
Announcing the 2017 Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Award Winners Emily Lamb in Exchange, Programs, Resources, Social Innovation, Uncategorized • February 2, 2017 Since 2011, Ashoka U and the Cordes Foundation have recognized outstanding programmatic innovations that transform how colleges and universities foster changemaking education on campus. This is the…
Ashoka U and Cordes Foundation Recognize Global Leaders in Social Innovation Education Beeta Ansari in Exchange, Social Innovation • February 2, 2016 “[The Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award] casts a broad net and identifies the best and brightest innovations that are really affecting the ability of our students to be changemakers,” according to…