Higher Education & the Future of Work

Co-Creating A Prosperous Future for All

Overview 

Join Ashoka U's High Level Convening: Higher Education & the Future of Work: Co-creating A Prosperous Future for All.

The state of work is changing, and quickly. While trends such as demographics, digitization, AI and remote work are driving this change, the call for more humane, people-focused work, with a heightened focus on the role of wellbeing, sustainability, and purposeful leadership, is also shifting this landscape. Higher education must rise to meet this historical moment. This convening will explore promising practices – including an exciting methodology with a powerful set of tools focused on Project-based Mentoring®

Goal: Exploring how might we come together as a community to collaboratively create a prosperous future for all.
 
Description 
Join leaders from business, higher education, and the citizen-sector to share and discuss:

  • What is the future of work that is desired?
  • What needs to happen within higher education to create this future?
  • What are challenges and how might we overcome them?
  • What are opportunities and how do we leverage them?

Program

8:30am: Doors Open

8:30-9:00am: Networking & Light Breakfast

9:00-9:30am: Welcome & Event Overview

9:30-10:45am: Panel & Discussion: Why We Need Project-based Mentoring®

10:45-11:00am: Coffee Break

11:00-11:45am: Fireside Chat & Discussion: Patty Alper

11:45-12:15pm: Panel & Discussion: Changemaker Ecosystems™ & the Role of Higher Education

12:15-1:00pm: Networking Lunch

1:00-1:45pm: Roundtable Discussion Series: Co-creating the Future We Want

1:45-2:00pm: Conclusions & Next Steps
 

Program facilitated and hosted by:

  • Patty Alper, President and Founder, The Alper Portfolio Group; Trustee, Alper Family Foundation; National Board Member, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE); Trustee, The Phillips Collection; Board Member, US2020; Advisory Board Member, Farragut Capital Partners; Corporate Committee Member, Million Women Mentors
  • Eidi Cruz-Valdivieso, Director, Strategy and Engagement, Ashoka U
  • Heather MacCleoud, PhD, Chief Network Officer, Ashoka U

Agenda tentative and subject to change.

Panelists & Participants

  • Alain Chetrit, CEO, Knowledge Impact Network
  • Andrew Carter, Associate Director, Center for Innovation and Change
  • Dafydd Snowdon-Jones, Co-Founder, Humanistic Leadership Academy (HLA)
  • Derek Jones, PhD, Director, Cognitive Science Program and Faculty Director, Center for Innovation & Change
  • Derek McKillop, Director, Evansville Promise Neighborhood
  • Ellen Glazerman, Executive Director, EY Foundation; EY Americas Director, University Relations, EY
  • Erin Lewis, MPA, Executive Director, Center for Innovation and Change
  • James Kassaga Arinaitwe, Senior Advisor, Teach for All
  • JD LaRock, CEO, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
  • John Halpin, Assistant Dean Workforce Development, City College of San Francisco    
  • Kaiwei Hsu, Impact, Hiring, Lead for Skills to Succeed National Program, Accenture
  • Kim Churches, CEO, The Washington Center
  • Laura Magaña, PhD, MS, President and CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)