We are Rarely Born as Changemakers Jayden De Armas in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 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. The yellow sheet in my hand […]
My Hobby is Design, My Passion is Changemaking Yanniz Valadez Cortés in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 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. The questions running through my mind […]
From Patient to Advocate: A Changemaker by Chance Maya Pajevic in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 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. No one wants to become a […]
Innovation as Spectacle Ashlee Tuttleman in Changemaker Campus • September 13, 2012 Innovation is breaking free of the status quo. It’s a new approach to a problem or opportunity, re-envisioning a process or identifying a new target market. The crux of innovation is creativity. But how is it practiced, or inspired? This was my scholars’ summer challenge in ThinkImpact’s Innovation Institute. The Innovation Institute brings university students […]
Changemaker Day at ITESM Campus Guadalajara Michèle Leaman in Changemaker Campus • May 4, 2012 Ashoka U’s newest Changemaker Campus, ITESM Guadalajara is finding new and better ways of inspiring students to think of social problems as opportunities to create change. Last week the campus hosted the very first Changemaker Day, an event that gathered students and faculty from the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division, as well as Ashoka Fellows. This […]
Save the Date: Middlebury Will Host Forum for Faculty June 11-13 Elizabeth Robinson in Changemaker Campus • April 19, 2012 This year, Middlebury College has been honored to launch our new Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship. At our first Annual Symposium, we welcomed over 100 participants for three days of sharing and collaboration. It was a rich, rewarding gathering. We were thrilled to have so many of you here on our campus to share your […]
University of San Diego’s Social Innovation Challenge Beeta Ansari in Uncategorized • March 28, 2012 Changemaker Campus and Exchange 2013 host, University of San Diego, invites you to their Annual Award Ceremony and Networking Reception on April 27, 2012 to honor the winners of USD’s Social Innovation Challenge. The Social Innovation Challenge (SIC) is a bottom-up initiative in which the Center for Peace and Commerce (CPC) acts as catalyst and […]
Stacey Williams on the Disruption Needed in Higher Education: Breaking out of the box Danielle Barbeau in Ashoka U Live Team • January 19, 2012 This is the second in a series of posts featuring Ashoka U Exchange participants discussing “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education.” This week we feature Stacey Williams, Graduate Student, M.A. Higher Education Leadership in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) at the University of San Diego (USD). When asked about her personal definition of […]