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 […]
Three practices to make your campus plans a reality in 2018 Jessica Lax in Best Practices • January 7, 2018 Jerrid Kalakay is an ideas guy. Two years ago his ideas led him to emerge as a key player in sparking a deeper changemaker culture across Valencia College. Valencia is a two-year, open access community college in Orlando, Florida. Today, Jerrid and his colleagues are on their way to realizing their vision […]
The Secret to Creating a Compelling Narrative About Your Changemaker Initiative Kathleen Kelly Janus in Best Practices • December 21, 2017 What I’ve found from interviewing countless organization leaders is that great storytelling is more the product of a whole lot of preparation and practice than that of innate talent. As we head into a new semester and a new year, use these tips to create your own narrative for your changemaker initiative.
4 Keys to Campus Wide Change Jessica Lax in Best Practices • July 21, 2017 Over the years, we’ve supported hundreds of innovators to change their campus. Based on that experience we’ve distilled four key approaches to institutional innovation to help you expand your impact on campus.