Bringing real world, leadership and management skills to the classroom is what the Ashoka Changemakers program strives to do. Forbes magazine recently recognized many college campuses, including the New School, that participate with the program in an article on, “The Rise of Social Innovation Education: Good News For Everyone”.
The Social Innovation Initiative at The New School strives to expand opportunities for students and faculty to engage cross-divisionally in interdisciplinary learning, research and practice that contributes to real-world problem solving.
The initiative at the New School fosters student community across campus engaged in collaborative innovation and action, and enhances opportunities for students to pursue their passions as changemakers. One of the ways it does so is an annual competition to allow students the chance to develop socially innovative ideas and produce tangible projects, products, organizations aimed at solving problems in their communities.
Students from all disciplines within The New School are encouraged to apply. To learn more about the New Challenge competition attend Tuesday @ 2 weekly seminar with Management faculty Michele Kahane and student staff members of the social innovation Initiative about social innovation and its underlying values.
