Read about the Spring 2019 graduate level social innovation course:
Graduate Students Use Social Innovation to Address Complex Social Issues
Examples of 2019 Coursework:
PPDE 580 – Students for Access to Fair Education (SAFE): Sexual Assault on College Campuses:
“We envision a future in which all genders have positive and fulfilling experiences within their educational institutions, free from sexual harassment and assault.”
For their final project of the Social Innovation course, masters students Marianna Jordan and Joelle Montier researched the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. They assessed the flaws within traditional university policies and highlighted various causes: inaccurate statistics on prevalence, underreporting and/or lack of reporting, inconsistent definition of sexual assault, existing incentives for universities to underreport, and cultural challenges. They then utilized a Collective Impact Framework to engage with the social innovation process, from identifying key stakeholders, to constructing appropriate metrics, to scaling and long-term diffusion.