Theory of Change

Focus Areas + Activities + Stakeholders → Outcomes → Impact

How Are We Transforming Individuals, Institutions, and Systems?

Ashoka U is committed to transforming individuals, institutions, and systems to build a world where everyone is a changemaker and solutions outrun problems.

We do this by focusing on key areas, engaging in high-impact activities, and working with influential stakeholders at all levels.

Focus on these Areas:

  • Strategic Engagement

  • Network Building and Activation

  • Changemaker Institutions as the Future

Engage in these Activities:

  • Impact Measurement

  • Convenings

  • Thought Leadership

Work with these Stakeholders:

Areas of Focus

  • Building, strengthening, and activating networks within and across campuses, with higher education constituencies, and with changemakers around the world.
  • Strategic engagement with current Changemaker Campuses and other exemplars to share knowledge, incentivize best practices, and inspire individuals at all levels to bring together changemaking and higher education
  • Identifying, sharing, and lifting up innovations to transform higher education

Activities

  • Documenting and surfacing innovations and best practices
  • Convening Changemaker Campuses as a network 
  • Convening Changemaker Campuses with other key stakeholders (Ashoka, accrediting bodies, governments, potential funders)
  • Improving impact measurement, reporting, and storytelling about the impact of changemaking in higher education

Stakeholders

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To What End?

How will these activities with these stakeholders focused in these specific areas lead to our goals?

Engaging in the above will:

Contribute to these Outcomes:

  • Evidence of What Works

  • Activated Networks

  • Improved Campus Metrics and Recognition

Lead to this Impact:

  • More Powerful Partnerships

  • Thought Leadership

  • Inspired and Strengthened Networks

  • Increased Capacity for Changemaking (Individuals, Institutions, Systems)

Ultimately:

A world where everyone is a changemaker, where solutions outrun problems, and where higher education is transformed!

Outcomes

  • Evidence base of best practices: changemaking in, through, and for higher education
  • Improved student recruitment, engagement, retention, and changemaking leadership outcomes
  • Enhanced impact measurement, analysis, and reporting
  • Opportunities to highlight Changemaker Campuses as the future of higher education
  • Growing community of stakeholders actively  embracing changemaking as core to the success of higher education (including accreditors and potential funders)

Impacts

  • ​​​​​Enhanced engagement across campuses
  • Deeper engagement with communities
  • Accreditation, quality assurance organizations, and governments understand the importance of changemaking in higher education and integrate it into standards
  • Changemaker Campuses lead the way in transforming the global higher education sector
  • A world where solutions outrun problems because everyone is a changemaker

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