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 […]
Laura White on the Disruption Needed in Higher Education: Empathy Amy Holiday in Changemaker Campus, Exchange, Guest Bloggers • January 10, 2012 This is the first of a series of posts featuring Exchange participants and their understanding of “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education”. This week we will be featuring Laura White, Tulane senior student and founder of the nonprofit Swim 4 Success. When you ask Laura White about reforming higher education, she doesn’t suggest lofty bureaucratic changes. […]
Babson College: Social Entrepreneurs Action Learning Network Erin Krampetz in Uncategorized • November 30, 2011 Many students seek to become social entrepreneurs after they graduate, but few of them receive support to do so. The Babson Social Entrepreneurs Action Learning Network (SEALN) pairs students with faculty and peers post-graduation to help improve their chances of success. This past year the graduating cohort of Ashoka Changemakers at Babson College participated in […]
Why next generation? We need a new generation. Erin Krampetz in Changemaker Campus • November 22, 2011 As a co-director of Ashoka’s University program, I was eager to see Ashoka’s President, Diana Wells, receive the honor of Changemaker Campus George Mason University’s inaugural Social Innovation Champion Award as part of the new Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s conference on “Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Austerity.” But I really started to […]