Letter from the UIF Team

letter from the team

Each year, we are amazed and humbled by the students and educators who make up our University Innovation Fellows community. You are passionate and driven — you work hard and constantly challenge yourselves to improve the lives of others. You are empathetic and respectful — you care deeply about the people for and with whom you are designing. You are insightful and forward-thinking — you are addressing issues that may not have existed even last year. The best part is, in addition to all of these things, you care about one another — you ask for feedback from those who have already experienced obstacles and you mentor others who have just started their journey as change agents. In this second edition of our journal, we celebrate the work that our community members are doing to help our schools navigate the ambiguity of these times and imagine the future of learning. These pages contain detailed goals and plans related to the challenges identified by our student University Innovation Fellows, Faculty Champions and Faculty Innovation Fellows candidates. They’re grouped in broad categories for the sake of easy reading, but many projects serve several purposes. 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 #uifamily 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 Ghanashyam S

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) Stanford University