July 22 Summit for College Changemakers Erin Krampetz in Uncategorized • July 19, 2010 If you haven’t already, now is the time to register for the Facing Change Summit. Brought to you by Hillel, Ashoka U, and the Interfaith Youth Core, the Facing Change Summit is equipping college students to act on the issues that are on the forefront of their campuses.
Are today’s college students really less empathetic? Erin Krampetz in Uncategorized • June 30, 2010 Bill Drayton, the Founder of Ashoka, says that systems change and great social entrepreneurship starts with empathy. A recent research study by Sara Konrath, at the University of Michigan, found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than those of 30 years ago, with the numbers plunging primarily after 2000.
“First newspapers, now universities: It’s transformation time” Erin Krampetz in Uncategorized • June 9, 2010 Professor Phil Auerswald at Changemaker Campus GMU discusses the need for higher ed to reinvent itself as an industry. Phil and GMU recently hosted presidents and leaders from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities for a roundtable conference on the future of higher ed.