Ashoka - the organisation that supports social entrepreneurs across the world - has announced five more US universities that will work together to boost social entrepreneurship education.
This is the second Changemaker Campus Consortium. The first was announced last year and was made up of four universities.
The aim of the consortium is to give students and staff 'the skills and mindset they need to tackle systemic problems and effect positive social change regardless of their discipline'.
Greg Dees, director of Duke's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, and a leader in social entrepreneurship education, said: 'Universities and colleges are increasingly realizing that if they want to be part of the solution to the most pressing problems we face around the globe, they need to promote creative interdisciplinary problem solving among their faculty and students.
'Ashoka's Changemaker Campus program is the perfect partner to stimulate faculty and students to break out of old categories in search of new solutions. Ashoka brings unparalleled knowledge of global social entrepreneurship, a rich history of working with academics through it University Network, and extensive experience breaking down barriers.'
Phil Auerswald of George Mason University, one of the first Changemaker Campus Consortium members, said: 'As educators we have an overriding responsibility to prepare our students to create their own opportunities, to build their own future, to be leaders in a changing world.'
The five universities announced on 18 August were Babson College, the University of Colarado at Boulder, College of the Atlantic, the New School and Tulane University.
For more see www.ashoka.org/changemakercampus
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CASE at Duke University
I'd been aware of social enterprise being taught at Duke for about 5 years now, so there's been a commitment for a while longer than this article suggests.
http://www.caseatduke.org/about/
As can be seen from the above link the CASE school takes on board the concept of for-profit models in social enterprise. In the interview link below, our founder describes how this for-profit model became part of tuition at Yale, Harvard and Duke.
http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html
Two years later, his strategy paper including a faculty for social enterprise at the Kharkiv National University and a social investment network was delivered to the US Senate.
Jeff Mowatt
People-Centered Economic Development
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