Institutional Culture & Operations for Success
About the Learning & Collaboration Journey
Join this learning and collaboration journey to explore promising practices around institutional culture and operations necessary for transformation.
Participants will learn about the building blocks of strong ecosystems, alignment of goals, communication strategies, and planning for transitions.
Learning & Collaboration Journey Topics
- Understanding the Building Blocks of Strong Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Changemaking
- Communicating Your Intended Impact
- Planning for Transitions
Learning & Collaboration Journey Goals and Learning Outcomes
Understanding the Building Blocks of Strong Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Changemaking
- Align understanding of effective social innovation ecosystems and the Changemaker Campus Criteria
- Understand trends and best practices in effective social innovation and changemaking ecosystems
- Develop institutional understanding
- Build peer to peer connection
Communicating Your Intended Impact
Present a plan and surface the impact that the campus hopes to achieve, and its plan for communicating this impact within the campus community and beyond.
Planning for Transitions
Change is a constant in higher education. Effective planning for transitions of key players is essential to maintain momentum and maintenance of transformations
Learning & Collaboration Journey Benefits
All Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys offer the following opportunities:
- Build strong ties with other Change Leaders and learn from their diverse perspectives through activities, peer reviews, and presentation evaluations.
- Gain access to a range of materials to accelerate your learning as you transform your program, institution, and ecosystem
- Engage with and learn from Change Leaders from Changemaker Campuses and learn more about Ashoka and social innovation from members of Ashoka's global network.
- Reflect on and create your Changemaker Story
- Learn about Ashoka and the Everyone a Changemaker vision
- Learn about Ashoka U and the Changemaker Campus Network
- Engagement with key Ashoka U resources developed in collaboration with hundreds of higher education institutions around the world.
Add-ons
Participate in spotlight coaching conversation with Change Leaders at current Changemaker Campuses to learn more about their social innovation and changemaking ecosystems and learnings from the Designation Process.
Resources
- Ashoka's Changemaker Index (CMI): Learn about your own changemaking capacity
- Becoming A Changemaker Institution: Guidebook and robust framework for faculty, staff, and student leaders who are ready to embed changemaking into their work, leadership, campus communities, and changemaking ecosystems.
- Evaluating Changemaker Education: A Practitioner's Guide: Strategic evaluation practices to strengthen changemaking across your institution
- Preparing Students for a Rapidly Changing World: Learning outcomes from a variety of disciplines for courses, course sequences, and co-curricular programs
- Curriculum Guide: Learn about promising approaches to curriculum and teaching, and opportunities for innovation in changemaking education
- Changemaker Institutions: Learn how the Changemaker Institution model can help your campus improve recruitment, fundraising, community influence, student outcomes, and engagement at all levels of your institution.
Join A Learning & Collaboration Journey
Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys are offered on demand.
Contact us: AshokaU [@] ashoka.org if you are interested in hosting a workshop!