Taylor Center Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

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Dissolving Boundaries Inspiring Collaboration Exploring Scalable Solutions

CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS

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Scholarship & Engagement

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MISSION The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking dissolves boundaries and catalyzes members of the Tulane Community to create ethical, sustainable, and scalable solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges. Our university-wide, interdisciplinary initiatives are grounded in the teaching, research, and practice of social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and design thinking.

BACKGROUND Founded in 2014, Taylor coalesces the Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (SISE) minor and co-curricular offerings in social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and design thinking, providing a platform for transdisciplinary, creative thought and action in our local and global community.

The center’s design thinking framework establishes a deeply human-centered, iterative, and experimental approach to addressing social and environmental challenges that engages experts, non-experts, and the users of proposed solutions.

Drawing on design thinking, Taylor connects scientific research, academic scholarship, innovative teaching, and lived experiences. Taylor aims to help cultivate mindsets, discover new learning, and diffuse social innovations in an inquisitive, persistent, and humble manner that brings value to the world.

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HIGHLIGHTS Created an innovation-based academic agenda with the Sacks Endowed Distinguished Chair in Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship, supported by Michael J. Sacks Developed co-curricular programs with the NewDay Speaker Series and NewDay Challenge, with support from Stan and Dana Day

Cultivated strategic funding to develop a university-wide program in social entrepreneurship

Recognized as a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U

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TAYLOR has grown into a powerful, intertwined strategy that includes a wide range of 2010

Established a core of social innovation (SI) programs in the Tulane Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT)

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Institutionalized deeper community engagement in social innovation and design thinking by launching Tulane Grand Challenges, supported by Phyllis M. Taylor

Appointed Dr. Rick Aubry as Assistant Provost for Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship, leading SE professors, Encore, and the Water Prize

SINCE GAINING STRATEGIC FUNDING to develop a university-wide program in social entrepreneurship, we have worked to integrate diverse pockets of creative, solutionoriented activities across campus. A variety of departments and centers have worked together

to ensure that we are realizing Tulane’s vision to represent the best of the modern research university, anticipating and meeting national and societal needs at the dawn of the 21st century and beyond.

Merged CELT-SI with Taylor, centralizing all curricular and co-curricular offerings in social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and design thinking within one university-wide center

Enhanced student social venture support with the Alvarez Spark Innovation Awards, established

by Victor C. Alvarez

Appointed Dr. Anna Monhartova, SISE Program Director, to lead the SISE Minor

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academic and research opportunities, student-led activities, and community partnerships.

2012 Launched interdisciplinary, university-wide Social innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (SISE) undergraduate minor— one of the first undergraduate minors in social innovation and social entrepreneurship in the United States

2014 Named Kenneth Schwartz the Sacks Endowed Distinguished Chair in Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship and Director of the Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking Secured funding for The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking 3

PROGRAMS ACADEMICS In Fall 2012, Tulane launched one of the first undergraduate minors in social innovation and social entrepreneurship in the United States.

SISE MINOR The SISE minor consists of six courses including: Introduction to SISE; Introduction to Business for SISE; Design Thinking for Collective Impact; Leadership for Collective Impact; Senior Elective; and Senior Seminar.

SISE students completed a total of 3,930 service learning hours in the 2014-2015 school year, partnering with local non-profit organizations including: Grow Dat Youth Farm; A’s & Aces; Playworks; Tulane City Center; Backyard Gardeners Network; St. Margaret’s at Mercy; Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation; Where Y’at; Foundation for the Conservation of the Tropical Andes; Audubon Nature Institute; NOLA Time Bank; Lusher Elementary School; Homer Plessey Charter School; St. Martin School; and Fund 17.

Previous partners include: Harmony Neighborhood Development, LifeCity, Our School at Blair Grocery, The Birthing Project, and Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

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IN 2014-2015

296

323 were CLASSROOM filled by SEATS

29%

130

increase since 13-14

SISE MINORS DECLARED

GRADUATING STUDENTS WITH SISE MINORS

UNIQUE STUDENTS

91%

60% increase since 13-14

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STUDENT PROGRAMING Taylor provides programming for Tulane students, faculty, and staff as well as for the community. Student programs consist of forcredit academic opportunities and co-curricular organizations, competitions, and fellowships.

IGNITE: COMMUNITY. CREATIVITY. CHANGE. Ignite is a pre-orientation program that connects firstyear students to people, resources, and opportunities to help them become agents of change at Tulane, in New Orleans, and around the world. This past year, student programming partnered with the Center for Public Service (CPS) and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (The O) to offer the first expanded Ignite track to over 50 students.

In 2015, Ignite will serve 60 students and add a new oncampus partner, the Murphy Institute.

SI SYMPOSIUM The Social Innovation (SI) Symposium seeks grounded, collaborative, place-based, action research that tackles complex problems facing 21st century global communities such as New Orleans. Now in its second year, the 2015 SI Symposium featured NewDay Speaker and social impact scholar Jane Wei Skillern, PhD. The graduate student-led panels drew over 60 attendees, including students from Tulane, Loyola, and the University of New Orleans. Leaders from the local community were also in attendance, representing diverse organizations such as: TrueSchool Studio; Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation; The Southern History Project; St. Martin’s Episcopal School; The Cookbook Project, and the Chicago Public Education Fund.

SPEAKERS AND EVENTS In the 2014–15 school year, CELT-SI hosted 8 events with 6 partner organizations. This year’s list of partners included: the SISE Minor; the Office of Multicultural Affairs; the Levy Rosenblum Institute; Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation; 4.0 Schools; and Tulane’s Graduate Social Innovation Network, a graduate student organization that seeks to expand SISE opportunities at the masters and doctoral levels.

ASHOKA U EXCHANGE Tulane University’s 30-person delegation at the Ashoka U Exchange included undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty, community partners, alumni, trustees, and administrators. Additionally, Tulane participated in the inaugural Renewal Cohort for Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses.

Tulane University was selected as the host for the 2016 Ashoka U Exchange. Ashoka U expects 800 faculty, administrators, staff, students, and practitioners to convene in New Orleans for the conference. In addition to providing financial and logistical support, Taylor is working to highlight values of diversity, health and well-being, sustainability, and local community engagement at the 2016 Ashoka U Exchange.

CHANGEMAKER INSTITUTE SOCIAL VENTURE INCUBATOR Since its inception in 2010, Changemaker Institute has supported 38 student social ventures. In 2014-2015, two student fellows supported nine teams launching social ventures or intrapreneurial projects that tackle real social problems in New Orleans. This year’s cohort consisted of 75% undergraduate and 25% graduate students and represented almost every school at Tulane. The cohort was particularly diverse this year, with 50% identifying as women and 60% identifying as people of color.

Five ventures in the 2014-2015 cohort received funding to move their ideas to action. Changemaker Institute alumni continue to thrive after completing the program.

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CHANGEMAKER ALUMNI UPDATES ALUMNI UPDATES MicroPAD Solutions (CI ‘15) was a finalist in the Rice University and Johns Hopkins University Business Model Competitions and won funding from the Novel Tech Challenge through Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering. Co-founders Jason Ryans and Ashwin Sivakumar are continuing product development of a micro-fluidics-based multi-virus rapid diagnostic tool.

Fund 17 (CI ’13) continued personal finance seminars and business development services with New Orleans entrepreneurs.

Fund 17 has developed partnerships with Lend for America, Hope Credit Union, Operation Hope, Café Reconcile, and dozens of local entrepreneurs. Founder Haley Burns is now working on the non-profit organization full-time.

Trash to Treasure (CI ’14) collected 25,000 pounds of gently used, unwanted residence hall items at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year, diverting that potential waste from landfills. The items were sold the following August, grossing $12,500 in the first annual sale. Profit was donated to local community organizations and the organization is planning its second sale, to take place in August, 2015.

Humanure Power (CI ’13) was recently renamed Sanitation and Health Right in India (SHRI). SHRI completed its first community block of twenty biogas toilets in July 2014. They attracted over 11,000 users in the first month. In May 2015, the Indian government transferred ownership of additional land to SHRI. The organization has raised over $240,000 since 2012.

Co-founder Anoop Jain writes about his work regularly in the Huffington Post.

FUNDING NEWDAY CHALLENGE The NewDay Challenge, established by Dana Leigh Day and Stanley R. Day, Jr., has awarded $130,000 in seed funding to 14 social ventures since 2010. In 2015, student programming awarded $35,000 to five winning ventures. Applications were submitted from undergraduate and graduate students in business, law, medicine, science and engineering, public health, and liberal arts.

2015 VENTURES AND AWARD WINNERS Cookbook Project Alissa Bilfield Food literacy and health education training MicroPAD Solutions Jason Ryans and Ashwin Sivakumar Micro-fluidics-based multivirus rapid diagnostic tool

New Orleans Girls’ Digital Media Camp Jocelyn Horner Digital literacy, storytelling, and enhanced social and emotional health among middle-school girls Roots of Renewal Brendan Lyman Reintegration services for the formerly incarcerated through construction work program

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Fund17 Haley Burns Microfinance and personal finance services for informal entrepreneurs

ALVAREZ SPARK INNOVATION AWARD The Alvarez Spark Innovation Award, established by Victor C. Alvarez, awards up to $2,500 to enable students to prototype, test, or move forward specific components of their venture idea or overcome key obstacles in growth. In 20142015, $17,000 was awarded to 7 different student ventures.

2015 VENTURES AND AWARD WINNERS ImpACT Jessica Tran and Rachel Budd Alvarez: $2,500 College admission and scholarship attainment by fostering ACT success

Birthmark Doulas Dana Keren Alvarez: $2,500 Establishment of Louisiana’s first Milk Bank for women struggling to produce nourishing milk

Text Books Change Lauren Astrachan and Ryan Winemiller Alvarez: $750 Peer-to-peer sales of used textbooks at Tulane University

The Cookbook Project, MicroPAD Solutions, New Orleans Girls’ Digital Media Camp, and Fund 17 received Alvarez Spark Innovation Awards leading up to the NewDay Challenge.

CHANGEMAKER CATALYST AWARD The Changemaker Catalyst Award supports experiential learning in social innovation, social entrepreneurship, design thinking, and changemaking. This year, the program was expanded to allow graduate students to access funding. About $16,000 was awarded to 13 undergraduate and 4 graduate students.

Derek Dashti Attendance at Venture Well’s Southeast Regional to facilitate a design thinking workshop Elias Garcia Attendance at the People’s Climate Change March Lilah Shepard Attendance at the Media that Matters Conference Simone Ballard Participation in the Grand Canyon Colloquium Haley Burns Attendance at Lend for America’s Summit for students working in microfinance in the U.S. and for office rental support

Tano Trachtenberg & Lilith Winkler-Schor Attendance at the Changemaker Summit with students from other Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses Tano Trachtenberg, Ashwin Sivakumar, & Jessica Tran Attendance at StartingBloc Institute, a nationally recognized training program that connects and develops aspiring changemakers Tait Kellogg Participation in a social networks analysis training through the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research Anna Hunor Participation in a practicum experience with the Uganda Village Project

Jessica Lidell Participation in a language immersion program in Guatemala Karissa Chao Attendance at the Alternative Break Citizenship Schools Conference Gabrielle Bloom Participation in an internship through the Israeli Consulate Jamie Rosenberg & Alex Bourguignon Attendance at the Break Away Conference

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SCHOLARSHIP & ENGAGEMENT Building on strengths in civic engagement and service learning, Taylor is proud to introduce scholarship and engagement opportunities that will inform social innovation & social entrepreneurship programming and initiatives at Tulane for generations to come.

NITROGEN REDUCTION GRAND CHALLENGE

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROFESSORSHIPS

Tulane’s “grand challenges” catalyze people around the world to create and scale market-driven solutions to significant problems affecting Louisiana and the world.

In February 2014, Phyllis M. Taylor partnered with Tulane University and Dr. Rick Aubry, Assistant Provost for Social Entrepreneurship and Civic Engagement, to announce a $1 million prize for the best solution to combat annual “dead zones” that impact the Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia threatens marine life, fishing community livelihoods, and the vitality of many of the world’s lakes and oceans.

Donors have endowed a number of professorships in the fields of social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

These opportunities will allow selected faculty to continue research and scholarship that contributes to their fields.

This work will eventually be diffused to the general public through courses, lectures, field projects, new program development, symposia, and writing. This year’s professorships were led by Assistant Provost Dr. Rick Aubry.

Convened by the White House Office of Science and Technology, and led by Dr. Aubry, Tulane’s team organized problem-solving meetings in Washington, where participants identified how the reduction of excess nitrogen could address hypoxia. Through partnerships with leading experts on hypoxia and nutrient science— and numerous other partners—the Grand Challenges then developed the strategy for the Tulane University Nitrogen Reduction Challenge.

After a public “open call,” the Grand Challenges team received 100 thoughtful responses from parties interested in participating in the competition. The prize competition was launched in June 2015 and will span two more phases in 2015-2016 before reaching completion in 2017.

Tulane is also soliciting resources at the local, state, and federal level to cultivate ancillary or satellite prizes that will support the main goal of the challenge. These prizes can have a social focus, such as addressing behavior change, or they can have a regional focus, such as discerning how to capture nitrates as they near the mouth of the Mississippi.

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1ST COHORT began in 2011

2ND COHORT began in 2012

3RD COHORT began in 2014

Dr. Laura Murphy The Carnegie Corporation Of New York Professorship & Carnegie Fellow in International Development and Design Thinking THIS YEAR Dr. Murphy traveled to rural western Kenya to start developing human-centered design workshops with and for youth and community development agencies. Next year, Dr. Murphy will expand design thinking and social innovation learning opportunities for graduate students and professionals on and off campus. Opportunities will include the Fast 48 human-centered design boot camp and other outreach activities.

Dr. Carol Whelan The Paul Tudor Jones II Professorship and Cole Fellow in Education and Empathy THIS YEAR Dr. Whelan was awarded a $40,000 grant to improve the Teacher Preparation Certification Program (TPCP). The grant will enable her to pilot a one-year residency program that, if successful, would be permanently implemented into the TPCP. The funds also supported two visits to Changemaker schools, used for a research project.

Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Dr. Lars Gilbertson

The Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Professorship & Carnegie Fellow in Law and Innovation THIS YEAR Dr. Townsend Gard launched an academic lean start up, Law/Culture/Innovation (LCI). LCI is an interdisciplinary legal and cultural support space for various stage projects. LCI bridges silos by connecting individuals inside and outside of the university who would otherwise be unaware of each other.

The NewDay Professorship & Carnegie Fellow in Biomedical Engineering and Design Thinking THIS YEAR Dr. Gilbertson was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish and direct the Tulane Innovation-Corps Site for a Resurgent New Orleans. The Tulane I-Corps Site will expand economic development in New Orleans while reinforcing the burgeoning life sciences industry in New Orleans and the surrounding region.

Dr. Rebecca Mark

Dr. Jordan Karubian

The Greenberg Family Professorship & Cole Fellow in Community Engagement Through English and the Arts, Root Cultures, and Innovative Pedagogy

The Kylene and Brad Beers Professorship I & Cole Fellow in Tropical Conservation and Engaged Natural Science Scholarship THIS YEAR Dr. Karubian deepened his community-based conservation efforts and focused on understanding and protecting isolated patches of forest in Ecuador called “fragments.” He organized local residents, university students, and professors, providing them with funding for assessing diversity of flora and fauna.

The information will be used to focus future conservation efforts.

THIS YEAR Dr. Mark was awarded the prestigious Tulane Weiss Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Her current work focuses on the university’s relationship with local, traditional “root” cultures. Dr. Mark will offer a symposium in the fall of 2016 to discuss possible models moving forward.

Dr. Vicki Mayer

Barbara Hayley, MFA

The Louise and Leonard Riggio Professorship & Carnegie Fellow in Digital Humanities Innovations

The Kylene & Brad Beers Professorship II & Cole Fellow in Dance and Community Engagement through the Arts THIS YEAR Prof. Hayley continued her work with Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute 2015 (UBW SLI), now in its 7th year. The UBW SLI is a 10-day event based in New Orleans that convenes dance and performance professionals interested in using performance as a tool for social change. The outcomes and processes of SLI were used in her SISE 2010 classes.

THIS YEAR Dr. Mayer launched the NOLA Digital Consortium, which unites humanities projects from regional universities, archives, and nonprofits.

Dr. Mayer’s work focuses on open access digital archives that enable students and faculty to share information with researched communities, and to preserve this research for future generations.

PAST SE PROFESSORS Nghana Lewis, Ph.D.

Byron Mouton, AIA

Aaron Schneider, Ph.D.

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DESIGN THINKING Tulane is uniquely positioned to infuse design thinking into the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum and extend it throughout campus. Our humancentered approach to design thinking cultivates mindsets that embrace ambiguity and agile thinking while moving towards solution and actionoriented goals. Using diverse tools and approaches, students learn more deeply about themselves and about challenges in their communities.

Through both academic and co-curricular learning, students develop core competencies in empathy, humility, creative- and visual-thinking skills, rapid prototyping and critique, and collaboration in diverse teams. Inside and outside the classroom, design thinking approaches empower students, faculty, administration, staff, and community partners to promote empathy, creative confidence, collaboration, and social innovation.

In 2014-2015, Ann Yoachim, Visiting Professor of Practice and Laura Murphy, Carnegie Corporation of NY Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, led teaching, outreach, and scholarship on design thinking for a range of campus and community partners. Allison Schiller and Maille Faughnan taught sections of the undergraduate design thinking class (SISE 3010) and were involved in outreach activities such as the Fast 48 boot camp in design thinking. Maille Faughnan, a doctoral student, is exploring how human-centered design is informing international development practice.

Design thinking outreach spans short conversations, 3hour introductory “crash course� workshops, a 3-day boot camp experience, as well as a semester-long undergraduate course. Over the past year, many informational meetings were held with community agencies, faculty, staff, and administrators from across campus who are eager to learn how design thinking can contribute to their work.

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CASE STUDY: DESIGN THINKING FOR EDUCATORS Here is a snapshot of design thinking in action at Tulane University and in New Orleans. The project entailed many conversations and workshops in partnership with Taylor.

BACKGROUND In Spring 2014, Taylor’s Design Thinking Team held a series of workshops and boot camps used to introduce the Endowed Professors of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship to the design thinking process. Carol Whelan, an Education Professor and Endowed Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, was intrigued by the process and helped lead a subsequent design thinking session with the Young African Leaders Institute (YALI). Inspired by her experience with YALI, Whelan leveraged her connections in the community to create design thinking training and an education boot camp for teachers across New Orleans, LA, and Chicago, IL. DESIGN THINKING FOR EDUCATORS In the summer of 2014, a Curriculum Design Team was created that represents educators from youth development programs and Taylor, as well as: technology and curriculum specialists, PK-12 teachers from local partner schools, Tulane faculty from Liberal Arts and Sciences departments, and education professors. Curriculum Design Teams were given guiding questions to explore throughout the semester. Three Innovation Interns were hired to research issues that could inform discussion. The teams met monthly and shared their recommendations with the TPCP Advisory Board in December 2014.

At the first day-long meeting in early September, educators were introduced to design thinking through an empathy exercise in which participants must interview each other. First, teachers created "How might we…" lists and defined problems. Next, teachers gave their imaginations and creativity a voice by building physical prototypes of their concepts. Finally, the teams shared

their prototypes and received feedback from the group.

Over the subsequent months, small subteams held Design Team meetings before the whole group returned to Flower Hall for a Design Thinking and Social Innovation follow-up session in December 2014. Groups shared their problem challenges and ideas for solutions. Teachers harnessed the collective perspectives and strengths of the curriculum design teams. Teams then continued the ideation process.

Recommendations were posted in charts, and teachers voted on their favorite ideas using divergent and convergent thinking and reflection that gave everyone a voice.

TPCP staff and design teams continued to implement recommendations throughout spring 2015. The Design Thinking process work culminated in the development of a prototype for a new "Residency Program.” Later, TPCP applied for and received a grant through the Louisiana Department of Education that will allow it to pilot the Residency Program this fall.

EDUCATION BOOT CAMP Meanwhile, teachers and teacher educators were interested in learning more about the design thinking and how it could benefit them in their classrooms. In April, Taylor and SE Professor Carol Whelan partnered with Garrett Mason of St Martin’s School in New Orleans and Carla Silver of Leadership + Design in Los Angeles, California, to hold a boot camp for Educators at Flower Hall. With support from a Believe and Prepare Grant, Mason and Silver were hired to lead the session. Attendees included over 50 teachers and leaders from Tulane and ten other schools: Lusher Charter School, Plessy-Ferguson Charter School, Discovery Charter, Bricolage Charter, St Martin’s, St Andrew, Holy Rosary, Academy of Sacred Heart, The Bishop's School in San Diego, and a middle school in Houston.

Throughout the course of the boot camp, Educators challenged themselves to "Redesign a student experience that teaches creativity, courage, collaboration, curiosity, or empathy." Groups empathized with users, gained insights, defined the challenge, and ideated potential solutions.

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DEVELOPMENTS ENHANCEMENTS RENOVATION OF DESIGN THINKING, DOING, AND TEACHING SPACE With substantial growth in the SISE program and the strategic merger between CELT-SI and Taylor, Tulane decided to undertake an architectural redesign of Flower Hall. Fabricated under the guidance of architect and adjunct faculty member, Marianne Desmarais, the redesign creates additional study space and informal seating, two additional rooms for classes, and flexible meeting space. There will be open work space for Taylor Student Fellows, enclosed co-working office space for Taylor staff, a Director’s office, a kitchen, and additional storage space.

The graphics below show elements of the Phase II redesign: an internal view of the new space, which features glass walls that maximize simultaneous use of the space while preserving natural light and encouraging collaboration among students, faculty and staff.

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SISE ACADEMIC PROGRAM

DESIGN THINKING

In May 2015 a SISE Retreat brought together professors, instructors, and staff from Taylor, the Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship academic program, and the Social Innovation Core at CELT. Attendees identified and discussed key issues, “big ideas,” ongoing issues, changes in staff and faculty roles, and crosscutting themes. The group also established central learning objectives as a way to improve the program moving forward. In 20152016, the SISE team will use the theme of “inequality and inequity” as a thread for work in academic and cocurricular programs.

Taylor works to incorporate design thinking (DT) into the ethos of the center, not only using DT to inform methods and skills, but also to foster a mindset—a way of being, thinking, and doing. Taylor hopes to extend workshops, boot camps, and other activities to campus and community partners. In the long term, Taylor aims to improve the undergraduate student experience, increasing recruitment and retention, and, ideally, earning revenues. Faculty and staff will develop a plan for how other departments will financially support this effort.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT INTERNSHIP & MENTORING This past spring the SISE Minor successfully piloted a service-learning internship class (SISE 4560), which is expected to triple in enrollment in fall 2015. Taylor is currently seeking funding to offer paid internship experiences for students interested in developing skills in social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The center also seeks to formalize internship opportunities for undergraduate students. A robust internship program could cost $100,000 annually, including staff time.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP The Community Innovator’s Circle (CIC) is a new program that offers a unique opportunity to support a small, strategic cohort of innovative community organizations through increased student engagement. Community partners selected for this program would commit to sharing their expertise with Taylor students through experiential learning opportunities. The goal of the program is to cultivate meaningful community engagement over the entirety of a Tulane student’s academic career—not just for one semester. A robust CIC program would cost up to $250,000 annually, including staff time.

Design Thinking tools are useful for a broad audience and in many contexts, from facilitating meetings, to redesigning spaces, to solving social problems. Taylor will continue to develop materials, language, and training experiences that convey the value and fit of design thinking training for different audiences, from undergraduates to professors, campus entrepreneurs, and community partners.

UPDATES STAFF UPDATES As a result of the expanded mission offered through the establishment of the center, programming underwent a comprehensive reorganization to ensure that Taylor is meeting the needs of the Tulane and New Orleans community. Co-curricular programs, previously housed under the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT), were incorporated into Taylor on June 1, 2015.

TAYLOR STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS The previous CELT-SI Fellows program has evolved into Taylor Student Fellows. Eight Fellows have been hired for the 2015-2016 academic year, including a communications and marketing team, an expanded Changemaker Institute team, and new areas of focus in event coordination and design thinking.

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CONTACT 200 Flower Hall Tulane University 6823 Saint Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 taylor@tulane.edu 504-314-7069

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