Visionary Leadership: Leading Social Impact in Higher Education
About the Learning & Collaboration Journey
Join this advanced learning and collaboration journey to increase visionary leadership capacity.
Participants will explore frameworks for systems thinking and systems change, map ecosystems, and learn how to build alliances.
Learning & Collaboration Journey Topics
- Frameworks for Systems Thinking and Systems Change
- Aligning Understanding of Social Innovation and Changemaking in Higher Education: Driving Institutional Change
- Ecosystem Mapping
- Building Allies and Raising Awareness
Learning & Collaboration Journey Goals and Outcomes
Frameworks for Systems Thinking and Systems Change
Explore examples of systems analysis frameworks that help to identify potential leverage points and/or opportunities for change.
Aligning Understanding of Social Innovation and Changemaking in Higher Education: Driving Institutional Change
• Set expectations for your community
• Align understanding of changemaking in higher education
• Understand steps to institutional change
• Understand Change Leader role and responsibilities
• Understand roles and responsibilities of Change Team
Ecosystem Mapping
• Begin to map your higher education changemaking ecosystem
Building Allies and Raising Awareness
• Identify allies
• Explore strategies to raise awareness
Learning & Collaboration Journey Benefits
All Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys offer the following opportunities:
- Build strong ties with other Change Leaders and learn from their diverse perspectives through activities, peer reviews, and presentation evaluations.
- Gain access to a range of materials to accelerate your learning as you transform your program, institution, and ecosystem
- Engage with and learn from Change Leaders from Changemaker Campuses and learn more about Ashoka and social innovation from members of Ashoka's global network.
- Reflect on and create your Changemaker Story
- Learn about Ashoka and the Everyone a Changemaker vision
- Learn about Ashoka U and the Changemaker Campus Network
- Engagement with key Ashoka U resources developed in collaboration with hundreds of higher education institutions around the world.
Add-ons
Participate in spotlight coaching conversation with Change Leaders at current Changemaker Campuses to learn more about their social innovation and changemaking ecosystems and learnings from the Designation Process.
Resources
- Ashoka's Changemaker Index (CMI): Learn about your own changemaking capacity
- Becoming A Changemaker Institution: Guidebook and robust framework for faculty, staff, and student leaders who are ready to embed changemaking into their work, leadership, campus communities, and changemaking ecosystems.
- Evaluating Changemaker Education: A Practitioner's Guide: Strategic evaluation practices to strengthen changemaking across your institution
- Preparing Students for a Rapidly Changing World: Learning outcomes from a variety of disciplines for courses, course sequences, and co-curricular programs
- Curriculum Guide: Learn about promising approaches to curriculum and teaching, and opportunities for innovation in changemaking education
- Changemaker Institutions: Learn how the Changemaker Institution model can help your campus improve recruitment, fundraising, community influence, student outcomes, and engagement at all levels of your institution.
Join A Learning & Collaboration Journey
Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys are offered on demand.
Contact us: AshokaU [@] ashoka.org if you are interested in hosting one!