What Is the Civic University For?
Embedding action through research by placing the Sustainable Development Goals at the center of university planning. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
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Connecting Housing, Community, and Health
A look at four “housing-plus” initiatives that are building healthy neighborhoods.
Advocating for Age in an Age of Uncertainty
How the COVID-19 crisis is amplifying ageism, and how advocates can push back.
University Rankings as a Tool for Social Impact
How Times Higher Education developed and implemented a new set of social impact rankings for higher education for a more sustainable, resilient future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Cultivating Change Amidst Collapse
To meet the magnitude of this moment we must work collaboratively in ways that promote decentralization over top-down hierarchies, relationships over transactions, and emergence over control.
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How Private Sector Leadership Can Fight the Biodiversity Crisis
An excerpt from Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning details the efforts of companies, governments, and communities to remediate polluted lands.
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Realizing Democracy: Turning Participation Into Power
Lissy Romanow of Momentum, Sochie Nnaemeka of the New York Working Families Party, and Joseph McKellar of PICO California discuss how civil society groups should organize people to change the rules and conditions by which elites currently prosper.
A Medical School for Changemaking
How Amani Institute is building a skills-based and inclusive curriculum for changemaking in the developing world. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Lifelong Reading for a Billion People
Same language subtitling (SLS) on India’s major TV channels went from concept in 1996 to national broadcast policy in 2019. This is the story of how we did it. A feature story from the Summer 2020 issue.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.