campus silos can lead to greater impact SESSION OVERVIEW Why - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Occupation: Bridge Builder. How collaboration and breaking down campus silos can lead to greater impact

SESSION OVERVIEW

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Why breaking down silos and hierarchies is so important for Changemaker Campuses and an “everyone a changemaker” world

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Your current “collaboration challenges”

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Collaboration stories

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Applying models to your collaboration challenges

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Q&A

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Your near-term and long-term action plan

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Why challenge silos and hierarchies?

Silos:

• Real-world problems are interdisciplinary.
• “Innovation thrives in large networks” (S. Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The

Natural History of Innovation). Hierarchies:

• Social justice work requires a foundation in equity and distributed leadership, where

“everyone is a changemaker” and leads.

• “Everyone a changemaker” includes students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members

(and more!).

Our Cross-Campus Collaborative Team

• Meredith Hein - Rollins College
• Sandra LaFleur - Miami Dade College
• Dr. Beverly Moore-Garcia - Miami Dade College
• Patrick Odoyo - Rollins College
• Kelsey Otero - Marquette University
• Donna Rapaccioli - Fordham University
• Cynthia Sarver – University of St. Thomas

Walking Our Talk: Educators as Changemakers

Miami Dade College

• Sandra LaFleur

Director of Social Change Initiatives; AU Change Leader

• Dr. Beverly Moore-Garcia

President, Kendall Campus

• The role of our people in changemaking education is significant.
• “Educating” is the responsibility of faculty, staff, and administrators.
• Changemaking as “new” vs. threading through existing structures.
• Quick outcomes vs. sustained, incremental changes.

The Social Innovation Collaboratory

Fordham University New York, NY

• Donna Rapaccioli

Dean, Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University

Changemaking Network

Fordham University students, faculty, administrators, alumni and community members work together to promote social innovation for the achievement of social justice, social entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability.

The Social Innovation Collaboratory

An “open-door, open-mind” laboratory in which anyone can bring a socially innovative idea to be workshopped, refined, and brought to life by a collaborative, energetic project team.

• Bring social innovation ideas out of the “concept” stage
• Give campus innovators a platform for ideas and a place to congregate
• Draw together the strengths and resources of business and the liberal arts, working

across traditional boundaries Website: fordham.edu/socialinnovation Fordham “changemaker blog”: goo.gl/UExURW

Early-Stage Outcomes

• Undergraduate social innovation concentrations
• Urban mobility practicum with BMW
• Cookstove practicum with United Nations
• Sustainable fashion practicum with United Nations
• Verizon grant for high school program
• Food impact-investing index
• New York City Climate Action Alliance partnership

Creating a Space for Spirited Dreamers, Fearless Leaders & Game-Changers

Marquette University

• Kelsey Otero

Associate Director of Social Innovation; Change Leader

Our ‘Modern’ Team: 3 Programs Under 1 Roof

Building New Cross-Campus Space

NOW

Student led, cross-campus space, that united entrepreneurship and social innovation centers

Ongoing Collaboration: Programming

Takeaways

• Determine partnerships and collaborations that can add mutual value.
• Prototype!
• Include others in the process outside of the core team; students make great partners.
• Build out the team using the 4 H’s: Hipster, Hacker, Hustler, and Handler.

Mission-in-Action: Institutionalizing Community Engagement and Social Innovation Through Co-Location

Rollins College

• Meredith Hein

Director of the Center for Leadership & Community

• Patrick Odoyo

Director of the Social Innovation Hub; Change Leader

Mission-in-Action: Institutionalizing Community Engagement and Social Innovation Through Co-Location

• Developing a Deeper Understanding of the Mission, Vision, and Values of this Collaborative

Work to Shape a Campus Community

• Synergies Between Traditional Community Engagement Models and Social Innovation and

Entrepreneurship

• Building Campus and Community Support and Engagement
• Creating an Ecosystem that is Centered on Student Learning Linking Their Curricular and

Co-curricular Experiences

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