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 […]
Old Normal to New Normal: Our opportunity for equitable innovation and resilience Marina Kim in Social Innovation • April 7, 2020 Making sense of our changing reality The past few weeks and months have become a blur for many of us – reading news articles, grieving the lives lost, and making sense of what COVID-19 means for our families, organizations, and communities. In this survival mode, our physical, emotional, and organizational systems are on overload. Not […]
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 […]
Walking the Walk Meets Social Entrepreneurship-Speak Mihai Patru in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 20, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. A year ago, I was talking […]
Celebrating UDEM’s Community of Student Changemakers Mitzi Elizabeth Gonazalez Medrano in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 20, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. You may have seen my friend […]
Studying Medicine, Practicing Changemaking Diego Carrión Alvarez in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 19, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. I remember the day so clearly: […]
Witnessing the Snowball Effect of Changemaking Isabel Miranda in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 19, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. They say hindsight vision is 20/20. […]