13 Calls to Action for Leading Systems Change On Campus for Impact: Reflections from the 2020 Ashoka U Senior Leaders’ Experience Angie Fuessel, EdD in Best Practices, Social Innovation • May 5, 2020 “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” -Peter Drucker Senior leaders on college and university campuses around the world are being tested like never before, both individually and institutionally. That’s why when we convened senior leaders virtually in a special track at the 2020 Ashoka U […]
Virtual Poster Session Celebrating Award Finalists Jessica Lax in Best Practices, Resources • April 13, 2020 You’re invited to interact with our ten finalists for the Ashoka U #MillionsofChangemakers award from April 14th-17th in our virtual poster session. The award recognizes the initiatives that have the greatest potential to spark #MillionsofChangemakers if adopted across higher education. The award winners were selected from 73 commitments that were made as part of the […]
Changemaking in the time of Coronavirus Jessica Lax in Ashoka U Team, Best Practices, Resources • April 7, 2020 It has become incredibly clear that the current moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic is not only unprecedented in the world, but also in higher education. It has forced, almost overnight, a huge transition that is unlike anything campuses have done before. Amid the stories of rapid change, we have also seen an […]
Winners Announced for the #MillionsofChangemakers award Jessica Lax in Best Practices • March 5, 2020 Ashoka U is excited to announce four winners and six semi-finalists for the #MillionsofChangemakers award. The award recognizes the initiatives that have the greatest potential to spark #MillionsofChangemakers if adopted across higher education. The award is a part of Ashoka U’s #MillionsofChangemakers campaign, launched with support from Schmidt Futures in Feb. 2019. As part of the campaign, leading […]
Announcing Six Working Across Differences Fund Grantees Emily Lamb in Best Practices, Changemaker Campus • August 27, 2019 Washington, DC, August 27, 2019 – Ashoka U has selected six institutions to receive the Working Across Differences Fund grant, supported by the Fetzer Institute. The Working Across Differences Fund provides one-year grants to post-secondary institutions for creative and innovative campus-wide initiatives that accelerate the creation, development, and/or application of methodologies that build bridges across […]
Changemaker Institutions: Re-wiring higher ed Jessica Lax in Best Practices, Social Innovation • June 5, 2018 The current structure of higher education was set up in the late 1800s and early 1900s to meet the needs of the industrial economy. Success was measured by levels of efficiency and productivity. Standardization and hierarchies were the norm as more and more people took roles in factories and on assembly lines. Moving forward more […]
Cracking the Hardest Nut – Measuring the impact of your changemaking initiative Ali Fraenkel in Ashoka U Team, Best Practices, Impact Measrement • May 24, 2018 “It is hard to measure what we care about so we end up measuring what we can, this isn’t impact.” – Willy Oppenheim, Founder and Executive Director of Omprakash One element I love about Ashoka’s work is the eagerness to identify and embrace patterns in emerging fields — and translate these patterns to society in […]
2018 Innovation Award Semi-Finalists Luciana Goles Domic in Best Practices, Exchange, Innovation Award, Social Innovation • January 31, 2018 The Innovation Award is Ashoka U’s top honor for premiere higher education programs in social innovation education. It recognizes high impact and highly replicable education innovations, including pioneering teaching models, co-curricular programming, community partnerships, and research. Each initiative goes beyond what is traditionally possible in higher education and creates new ways colleges and universities […]