June News U Can Use Emily Lamb in News U Can Use • June 22, 2018 Today: Ashoka U‘s Measurement & Evaluation Webinar Calling all social impact educators! Join us today from 12-1pm ET, to discuss ways to evaluate changemaker learning outcomes. Register here. And if you can‘t make it, register anyway and we’ll send you the recording. 2019 Ashoka U Exchange – Dates & Location Announced! Get your sunscreen ready and your calendar marked! We’re headed to San Diego, California for […]
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 […]
How Do You Make Changemaking a Daily Practice? Emily Lamb in Ashoka, Exchange, Social Innovation • May 30, 2018 “Universities, it seems to me, should model something for students besides individual excellence… They should model social excellence as well as personal achievement… If institutions that purport to educate young people don’t embody society’s cherished ideals – community, cooperation, harmony, love – then what young people will learn will be the standards institutions do embody: […]
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 […]
Announcing #Exchange2018 Keynote Speakers Emily Lamb in Exchange • March 7, 2018 We are proud to officially announce the keynote speakers of the 2018 Ashoka U Exchange. This year the keynote stage will feature 11 visionary social innovators, all from a variety of fields, but all with deep ties to social impact in action across society.
The Ashoka Collaborations Track: How understanding Ashoka can transform your work Beeta Ansari in Exchange • February 14, 2018 What is Ashoka? We get asked that question a lot. To understand our work as Ashoka U, the higher education initiative of Ashoka, we believe it’s important to start at the beginning: with Ashoka. If we had to sum it up in a sentence we’d say that Ashoka builds networks of changemakers and social innovators […]
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 […]
7 Sessions I’m Excited About at #Exchange2018 Charlotte Vitak in Exchange • January 23, 2018 As an Exchange veteran, I was excited to dig into the just launched 2018 agenda and see what stimulating sessions the team has put together this year. It wasn’t easy, but I chose seven sessions from the many sessions at the Exchange that I can’t wait to attend. These seven sessions showcase the broad range of format, content, and depth that is typical of the Exchange.