Letter from the Team
In the last decade, our team has seen an incredible
transformation in the work being done by the students and educators who make up our University Innovation Fellows community. Every year, we have been surprised and delighted by the ways that these amazing changemakers have been applying their skills, time and talents to improve the education of their peers. Early on, we were able to count on one hand the types of projects that students typically worked on as Fellows. Now, the work being done is so diverse that we had to come up with a new way to organize this journal. Rather than focus on what is being done, we realized we had to focus on why it was being done. In this third edition of our journal, you’ll see this new narrative, which aims to tell the story of the work being done by our University Innovation Fellows, Faculty Champions and Faculty Innovation Fellows candidates to help our schools imagine the future of learning.
We work fast and iterate often as we learn! By the time you read this, some of these projects will have evolved, some will have been implemented, and new projects will be in progress. All of this content represents valuable effort, learning and growth on the part of the students and faculty. We hope this publication also serves to highlight the state of higher education today: what students need, and what we are doing to ensure that all learners are prepared to shape the future. Thank you to our family of Fellows and Faculty Champions for making this publication possible, and for giving us the best reason to do the work that we do. The University Innovation Fellows Team Leticia Britos Cavagnaro Humera Fasihuddin Lupe Makasyuk Laurie Moore Catherine Randle Ghanashyam S Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) Stanford University