Session-Presentation

Why breaking down silos and hierarchies is so important for Changemaker Campuses and an “everyone a changemaker” world 2.. Hierarchies: • Social justice work requires a foundation in equ

Occupation: Bridge Builder

How collaboration and breaking down campus silos can lead to greater impact

SESSION OVERVIEW

1. Why breaking down silos and hierarchies is so important for Changemaker Campuses

and an “everyone a changemaker” world

2. Your current “collaboration challenges”

Multimodal Audience Participation

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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

• 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

• 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

• Building Campus and Community Support and Engagement

• Creating an Ecosystem that is Centered on Student Learning Linking Their Curricular and Co-curricular Experiences

Thank you!

Please complete your Commitment Card and start building bridges for a better changemaker

campus ecosystem at your institution right away!