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Ashoka U catalyzes social innovation in higher education because we believe universities can do good… better.

That’s why Ashoka U promotes robust, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching, research, and action in social innovation that advance the positive social and environmental impact of colleges and universities globally. To put it simply...

Education that matters. Ashoka U identifies and empowers entrepreneurial change leaders in higher education, supports the transformation of colleges and universities into Changemaker Campuses and catalyzes and measures colleges‘ and universities’ contributions to positive social and environmental impact, so that a world-changing university experience becomes the new normal.

WHO WE ARE

WHAT IS A CHANGEMAKER CAMPUS? Launched in 2008, Ashoka offers the Changemaker

Campus designation to leading institutions in social

innovation education. These institutions share the

vision for higher education to become the next global

driver of social change by transforming the educational

experience into a world-changing experience.

The Changemaker Campus designation recognizes

colleges and universities that have embedded social

innovation as a core value and showcases the ways

in which they have built supportive environments

for changemaking across the entire institution–from

admissions through the curriculum, career services,

all the way to community and alumni engagement.

Changemaker Campuses form a global network

of leaders and innovators who provide inspiration,

connections, and support to broaden the reach

and impact of social innovation around the world.

WHO ARE THE CHANGEMAKER CAMPUSES?Ashoka U has currently selected 30 colleges and

universities from around the world, including public

and private institutions from 5 countries that range

in size, institutional type, and geographic location.

As our Changemaker Campus network grew to 33

universities by 2015, we’ll continue to uncover the

hidden potential of students and inspire them to create

meaningful lives and powerful change in the world.

WHAT IS ASHOKA U’S ROLE? Ashoka U serves as accelerator, thought partner, and

convener. We support Changemaker Campuses in

reaching their institutional goals, facilitate the work

of the consortium in advancing the social innovation

education movement, promote Changemaker Campus

leadership and highlight accomplishments to influence

the higher education sector, and connect Changemaker

Campuses to innovative collaboration projects with

Ashoka and leading social entrepreneurs in the field.

WHY PARTNER WITH ASHOKA? Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading

social entrepreneurs–men and women with systems

changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social

problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 3,000

leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows,

providing them with living stipends, professional

support, and access to a global peer network in over

75 countries. With our global community, we develop

innovative models for collaboration and design new

architecture for social change.

Leveraging our insights from working with this

network of innovators, Ashoka is in the unique

position to share both examples of systems-

changing solutions and experience nurturing social

entrepreneurs with the academic sector. Ashoka’s

unparalleled network and field knowledge of social

entrepreneurship provides the ideal platform for a

thriving community of social innovators with a new

vision for higher education to grow.

Defining “Changemaker Campus”

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CAMPUS SETTING

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23% SUBURBAN

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3% CANADA

3% IRELAND

3% SINGAPORE

6% UK

9% MEXICO

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MIAMI DADE COLLEGE160,000+ students

COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC300 students

Changemaker Campus Selection Process

The Changemaker Campus selection process is closely modeled after Ashoka’s Fellow selection. It enables Ashoka U to make a comprehensive evaluation of the institution and helps us define institutional strengths and unique contributions to the field. Typically, campuses complete the process during the school year (Sept-May) or calendar year (Jan-Sept), but campuses may choose a timeline that best fits their institutional schedule and maximizes momentum of the individuals involved.

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SELECTION PANEL $10,000Representatives from each candidate campus participate in a day-long series of interviews with expert panelists— including current Change Leaders, Ashoka fellows, and social entrepreneurs— who determine whether the campus becomes a Changemaker Campus.

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The 360° Campus Scan maps social innovation activities across an institution. Through interviews, meetings, forms, and analysis, it convenes a team of stakeholders—students, faculty, and staff—who are advancing social at their institution, and helps them build out a cohesive vision and action plan.

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SITE VISIT $6,000Up to two Ashoka staff and a visiting Change Leader from a current Changemaker Campus conduct a two day Site Visit. They meet with students, faculty, and staff, as well as the President or Provost, offering advice and learning about the state of social innovation at the institution.

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on ON-BOARDINGAfter successfully passing the Selection Panel, Ashoka U works with the new Changemaker Campus to determine next steps, areas of growth, and potential partnerships. This includes a press release and formal announcement, as well as an orientation and 6-month check-in with the panelists.

Our Selection Criteria

Committed university staff to champion social entrepreneurship and ignite change.

CREATEEcosystem components: curriculum, co-curriculum, research, community, and culture.

BUILD SUPPORTSupport to stabilize long-term growth: senior leadership support, coordinating structure, staff, and resources.

EXTENDCapacity for lasting impact: a unique institutional contribution and participation in the greater field of social innovation.

SHOULD WE BECOME A CHANGEMAKER CAMPUS? The Changemaker Campus program is for colleges and

universities ready to take the lead in social innovation

on campus and forge a new path for higher education

that matters. As a Changemaker Campus, your

institution will:

› Take advantage of an emerging trend in higher

education, thus differentiating your institution.

› Respond to growing student demand for

result-oriented and innovative programming.

› Build on, expand, and “update” institutional

commitments to public scholarship, civic

engagement and service learning.

› Align with trends in higher education funder

priorities. Given the growth of CSR, impact

investing, and social entrepreneurship funding,

funders are now looking to develop and support

a robust pipeline of future social entrepreneurs

equipped for a world defined by change.

WHAT WILL THIS PARTNERSHIP LOOK LIKE? Ashoka U works with social innovation champions at

your institution to determine strengths, challenges, and

areas for growth. Ashoka U starts by identifying Change

Leaders who consider it their professional priority to

embed social innovation on campus, and then works

with these individuals to build a team and assess their

campus ecosystem. After identifying the unique

strengths of your campus, Ashoka U works with your

campus team to develop a strategic vision and action

plan that leverages the resources we have compiled

during our past 5 years of programmatic growth.

Why become a Changemaker Campus?

WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?

demonstrate institutional change› Set ambitious goals for results through an online

campus portfolio hosted by Ashoka U

› Acquire best-practices through a trusting

consortium learning community

grow the movement› Convene regional consortia and access change

leader consulting opportunities

› Participate in the selection process to designate

new Changemaker Campuses

influence higher education› Get critical media attention through articles and

publications (Forbes, Huffington Post, etc.)

› Showcase your institution via conference

presentations (AAC&U, Benchmark 3.5, etc.)

catalyze collaborative partnerships› Select from the menu of opportunities for

partnerships with Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows

› Co-design innovative, collaborative projects to

pursue social impact

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“If [universities] want to be part of the solution to the world’s most pressing problems, they need to promote interdisciplinary, creative problem solving. Ashoka U is the perfect partner to stimulate faculty and students to break out of old categories in search of new solutions.”

–GREG DEES, Director of it Duke Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship

“The next generation of leaders wants to respond to a call to find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. Universities can use institutional credibility to say: that desire, that idea you have, that passion, you can use that to engage the world, make a living doing so, and find fulfillment - and it’s called social innovation and social entrepreneurship.”

–JEFF SNELL, Special Advisor to the President of Marquette University

“W all are responsible to create a better world, and universities can be a catalyst for change. I honestly believe that social entrepreneurship gives knowledge a sense of purpose, no matter what the student’s career path is.”

–HECTOR GOMEZ, Associate Professor at Universidad de Monterrey Business School

Value for Institution

SHARE YOUR STORY TO INFLUENCE HIGHER EDGet critical media attention through

partnerships with Forbes, GOOD

Magazine, the Christian Science

Monitor and more. Showcase your

institution via conferences and

presentations such as AAC&U and

Benchmark 3.5. Gain institutional

attention online through Ashoka’s

300,000 Twitter followers, 100,000

monthly ashoka.org visitors and

3,000 monthly ashokau.org visitors.

SHARED VISION AND STRATEGY-BUILDINGDuring selection, your institution will

assemble a diverse, “Change

Team” of campus stakeholders to

develop a collective vision and

strategy for advancing social

innovation at your institution.

POSITION AS A LEADERTake advantage of an emerging trend

and distinguish your university as a

leader in the field of social innovation

in higher education, along with the

others in the elite Changemaker

Campus Network.

PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIESAs a member of the Network, Ashoka

U will provide special opportunities as

they arise, including collaborations

with other parts of Ashoka, including

3,000 Ashoka Fellows working in 70

countries, as well as unique funding

opportunities, and special

consideration for Ashoka staff and

internship positions.

SENSE OF UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONDrawing on their extensive experience

with 150 institutions around the world,

the Ashoka U team will be able to

identify the unique contribution that

your institution makes to the field of

social innovation in higher education,

which can be extremely helpful in terms

of determining future institutional

direction and finding the best ways to

promote your institution.

EXPERTISE-SHARINGThe selection process is designed

around sharing expertise and building

strategy with the Ashoka U team and

expert Change Leaders from other

campuses, both on the Site Visit and

throughout the process.

PROMOTION AS THOUGHT LEADERSBe promoted as a thought leader in the

field of social innovation education through

writing and speaking opportunities, as well

as through promotion at the Ashoka U

Exchange, the global convening of 650

participants from 150 institutions

from 40 countries.

Value for Change Leader & Team

“College students are hungry to be part of something larger than themselves, to engage in meaningful work that they believe can make a difference in the lives of those around them and, in the process, in their own lives. Ashoka offers this opportunity through social entrepreneurship. Ashoka is enabling students to participate in improving their campuses and the communities that surround them."

—TOM EHRLICH, Visiting Professor at Stanford University & Former President of Indiana University

INSIGHT INTO TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONLearn from the other innovative

leaders in higher education through

the annual Ashoka U Change Leader

Retreat, as a Visiting Change Leader

on candidate Changemaker Campus

Site Visits, and through serving as a

Selection Panelist for other

Changemaker Campuses.

COLLECTIVE VISION & ACTION PLANCreating a Change Team unites related

people and projects across your campus

to collaborative develop a collective

vision of social innovation at your

institution, as well as an action plan to

make this vision happen.

PEER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIESChange Leader and faculty connections to

other rigorously selected innovators, who

share your vision for social innovation in

higher education. Collaborate on social

innovation projects, classes, white papers,

and more.

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