Posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2024

UE’s Center for Innovation & Change was invited to present at both the national convening for Promise Neighborhood and Full Service Community Schools, and at Ashoka’s Global Headquarters on its unique blend of changemaking in the Promise Neighborhood.

UE is the only college in the world that is both a Changemaker Campus and home to one of the USDOE’s $30,000,000 grants. It led a session with other Promise Neighborhoods on how to do co-design with their communities, and hosted an affinity group for higher education based neighborhoods.

Following the conference, the team was invited to Ashoka’s Global HQ to present at High Level Convening: Higher Education & the Future of Work: Co-creating A Prosperous Future for All. Erin Lewis, Executive Director, provided an overview of changemaking at UE, and then the team, including Andrew Carter, Associate Director, Dr. Derek Jones, Director of Field Innovation, and Derek McKillop, EPN Director, engaged in a panel discussion with participants on the potential for this work to showcase a new role for universities as anchor institutions.

The program was facilitated and hosted by Patty Alper, president of the Alper Portfolio Group, a marketing and consulting company, and a board member of both the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and US2020, the White House initiative to build mentorship in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers. She has also been appointed to the corporate committee for Million Women Mentors, is a trustee of the Phillips Collection, and was recently inducted into Who’s Who in America. The team is pictured below with Patty, along with Ashoka co-hosts Eidi Cruz-Valdivieso, Director, Strategy and Engagement, and Heather MacCleoud, PhD, Chief Network Officer, Ashoka U.

Participants included:

• Kim Churches, CEO, The Washington Center
• Ellen Glazerman, Executive Director, EY (Ernst & Young) Foundation; EY Americas Director, University Relations, EY
• John Halpin, Assistant Dean Workforce Development, City College of San Francisco
• Kaiwei Hsu, Impact, Hiring, Lead for Skills to Succeed National Program, Accenture
• JD LaRock, CEO, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
• Aaron Miller, Director, International Trade, Virginia SBDC, George Mason University; Chairman, Virginia/DC District Export Council, George Mason University
• Alain Chetrit, CEO, Knowledge Impact Network
• Dafydd Snowdon-Jones, Co-Founder, Humanistic Leadership Academy (HLA)
• James Kassaga Arinaitwe, Senior Advisor, Teach for All
• Laura Magaña, PhD, MS, President and CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)
• Leland Schwartz, Communications Strategist, Knowledge Impact Network
• Mariana Levinas Huberman, Senior Director, Lugano Diamonds
• Robin Matross Helms, PhD, Vice President, Membership & Educational Services, Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)
• Sarah McCue, PhD, Senior Advisor, Social Impact, Axion Education; Adjunct Professor, Kogod School of Business, American University; Adjunct Professor, Technology Management Program, Georgetown University