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Onward: Accelerating the Impact of Social Impact Education
University social impact centers are stretched thin. Rather than do more of everything, the best strategy may be to establish a baseline level of services, and then focus on making significant progress in one distinct area.
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Putting Community First in Social Innovation Education
Social innovation educators are responsible for teaching students how to become collaborative community partners. Here's how.
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Building Opportunities for Inclusive Leadership
Are social entrepreneurship education programs excluding those who have directly experienced social problems from working on social change solutions?
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To Build Leaders for Social Impact, Universities Must Adapt
Universities play a critical role in producing social impact leaders committed to the public good and prepared to confront the challenges of an uncertain world.
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Why Universities Shouldn’t Teach Social Entrepreneurship
For true social change to happen, we must welcome social entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, but universities simply can’t do that in their current form.
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Three Lessons for Impact Investing Education Programs
Academic institutions can help build the impact investing field by teaching students a fuller suite of skills, clarifying the range of career paths open to them, and developing a better theoretical and practical knowledge base.
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Rethinking Business Plan Competitions
Examining the pitfalls and potential of social business plan competitions, and how educators can redesign them for greater impact.
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Critical Competences for Social Impact Leaders
Five opportunities for educators to more clearly connect classic entrepreneurial skills to the social impact field and to foster skills that can serve a range of social impact leadership roles.
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Why Social Impact Educators Should Disrupt Their Own Systems
Changing who and how universities teach social innovation offers unprecedented learning opportunities for students—and the potential to create greater social impact.
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Shaping Social Impact Education Through Collective Wisdom
More and more students are seeking out courses from business schools that support them in pursuing meaningful careers, and universities are responding, but what does the future hold?
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The Future of Social Impact Education in Business Schools and Beyond
Business schools—once reserved for those who wanted to pursue careers as bankers, consultants, and CEOs—now boast a wealth of social entrepreneurship and social innovation courses. More and more students are seeking out these courses with a hope of creating high-impact future careers. This increase in demand for social impact courses leaves universities and extracurricular education programs with an opportunity to reconsider their offerings.
Many of these schools currently focus on social entrepreneurship education, offering start-up accelerators, business plan competitions, and perhaps social finance courses aimed at funding those start-ups. But the time is ripe to examine the opportunities and challenges of potentially broadening this focus to include social impact careers beyond the role of founder or funder. There is also a need to look at whom we are educating: Are elite institutions educating and funding only the elite? And if so, how do people who have experienced social and environmental problems first-hand access social innovation education—should their voices be at the forefront of social change efforts?
The series, produced in partnership with Oxford Saïd Business School’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, will share global perspectives about potential shifts in social impact education, and whether educators might increase their ability to tackle global challenges through shifting how and who they educate.
