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 […]
Three Ways Learning Outcomes Can Increase Your Impact Hattie Duplechain in Resources • March 20, 2019 What does it mean to prepare a student to be a changemaker? A little over a year ago, we asked you this question in our blog post Three Critical Questions Changemaker Learning Outcomes Can Help Us Answer. In over 200 conversations about learning outcomes, you offered your thoughtful and hard-earned answers to this question. As […]
March News U Can Use Emily Lamb in News U Can Use, Resources • March 6, 2019 Make a commitment and help graduate #MillionsofChangemakers Join Ashoka U’s global call to higher education innovators to make commitments to activate and support changemakers of all kinds. Register for an upcoming commitment design session, and submit your commitment by May 31st. Learn more here. Are You Measuring your Students’ Changemaker Outcomes? Ashoka U is seeking contributing authors for […]
September News U Can Use Emily Lamb in Ashoka, News U Can Use, Resources • September 5, 2018 2019 Ashoka Exchange: Session Proposal Deadline is Approaching! Session proposals for the 2019 Exchange “Beyond Boundaries and Borders: Expanding Possibilities for the Future of Higher Education” are due September 26 by 6:00pm PT. We’re accepting proposals for best practice sessions, workshops, Big Idea Talks, facilitator roles, and more. Learn more. Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, North Central College […]
40 Conversations About Learning Outcomes Hattie Duplechain in Resources • January 15, 2018 I’ve now conducted more than 40 interviews with people who’ve developed social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and changemaking learning outcomes at institutions across nine countries. And this is just the beginning! Here are three key insights from my conversations to date.
December News U Can Use Emily Lamb in News U Can Use, Programs, Resources, Social Innovation • December 5, 2017 There are a lot of things we’re excited about these days and we hope you are, too! Just Released – Site Visit locations at the 2018 Ashoka U Exchange Check out this list of inspiring organizations that Ashoka U Exchange attendees will have the opportunity to visit. From tapping the minds of Bridgespan consultants, to […]
3 Critical Questions Changemaker Learning Outcomes Can Help Us Answer Hattie Duplechain in Ashoka U Team, Resources, Uncategorized • November 29, 2017 What does it mean to prepare a student to be a changemaker? At Ashoka U we wrestle with this question all the time and see supporting that line of questioning as a key part of what we do. To that end, we believe it is important to help educators identify and develop learning outcomes for […]