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“I believe it is the universities who are not student-ready,” said Adam Bush, director of curriculum at College Unbound, during the “Student Access and Success” workshop at the AshokaU Influencer. The workshop sparked a debate about why success, like access, in higher education continues to be such...

This is the fifth post in a series where we share the conversations between higher education leaders that came together during Everyone a Changemaker Week. They discussed the role of social innovation as a significant lever for the relevancy of higher education in a time when many claim that...

Peace will be the flavor of the next week. The United Nation's International Day of Peace is next Friday, September 21, but things will get a little sweeter thanks to Ben & Jerry's, one of our partners (and a community favorite). They partnered with the Peace Alliance to hold a free ice cream...

Along with Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and author of ‘Half the Sky’, Ashoka U and the entire college community celebrated Rollins College’s designation as Changemaker Campus through Rollins’ Changemaker Campus Day. The whole campus was covered in Changemaking in Progress “caution”...

Cultivating empathy and empowering children to become effective changemakers in their communities isn’t an add-on, or a brand-new concept: it starts with simply articulating, and then amplifying, how great teachers build empathy in students. Ashoka has set out to do just that, beginning with five...

The Vision: Cities and Changemaking Ashoka’s vision is to have an Everyone A Changemaker™ world: one that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change. This vision is...

On a non-descript evening in May a hub of social innovation pulsed with energy, attracting over 500 participants with solutions to social problems ranging from public health to citizen engagement and poverty alleviation. But this was no glamorous gala—there were no suits or linen tablecloths. There...

Many schools continue to address bullying with swift and severe punishment. But research indicates that zero tolerance approaches are simply not effective. They don't improve the behavior of the bully (or the victim), nor do they improve school climate and safety. “The phrase in the Middle Ages was...

The Cleveland High School gymnasium was packed with more than 200 students buzzing with excitement and anticipation, cheers and applause. But this was no pep rally. The students were social entrepreneurs in Ashoka Seattle’s Youth Venture program, each working to solve important social issues in...