Ashoka
Launched in 2008, the Changemaker Campus consortium currently consists of 9 colleges and universities in the U.S. After establishing an institutional partnership with select universities, Ashoka works with teams of entrepreneurial students and faculty to accelerate their growth as hubs of social innovation. Changemaker Campuses include: Arizona State University, Babson College, College of the Atlantic, Duke University, George Mason University, Marquette University, The New School, Tulane University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of Maryland
Ashoka U is a program of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Founded in 1980, Ashoka is the world’s leading network of social entrepreneurs. Ashoka U envisions a world where colleges and universities everywhere serve as an enabling environment for social entrepreneurship, providing individuals with access to the resources, role models, learning opportunities, and peers needed to actualize their full potential as social entrepreneurs and changemakers. Ashoka U’s mission is to foster and accelerate teaching, research, and action in social entrepreneurship, seeking to set a new standard of excellence in the field.
Babson College was awarded Ashoka's 2011 Social Innovators Award. One of five winners, Babson was awarded this honor for its innovation in teaching social entrepreneurship. For more information see the press release from earlier this year.
Upcoming Events:
Babson College and Ashoka Host the First
Faculty Forum on the Future of Social Innovation Education
Catalyzing Change: Teaching and Learning in an Unpredictable World
November 10-12
Babson College
Babson Executive Conference Center
Babson and Ashoka invite you to a convening which will provide a rich, supportive thinking space with like-minded academics to collectively explore the future of social innovation education. The two days will address what it means to be faculty catalyzing change in institutions that are changing all around us.