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Faculty Summit on Social Innovation at Duke and UNC – Chapel Hill
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Date: Wednesday, November 28th
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How we got here…
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Student perspectives
Naman ShahWaterPlus
Lindsey WitmerCarolina Microfinance Initiative
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Duke
• Social entrepreneurship embodies a philosophy of “attending not only to [the] intellectual growth [of undergraduates] but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities"
• Social entrepreneurship represents a dynamic, growing arena in which to create “leaders in finance in business.”
• Social innovation offers a unique, inclusive method by which to “contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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• Social innovation is the embodiment of the ideal of pursuing “creative endeavors” to move from “free inquiry” to “personal responsibility.”
• Social enterprise is a characterized around the world by the creation of scalable, sustainable strategies to “improve the condition of human life through service.”
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMBODIES MANY OF OUR UNIVERSITIES’ CORE VALUES AND MISSIONS
“italics” = taken from university mission statement
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OUT OF A RANGE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED FOUR TOP PRIORITIES
Source: Seeds team analysis
Impact on campus
Resources required
Faculty Social Impact Committee
Faculty Conversations Program
2-Part Social Venture Course
Starting Bloc Southern Institute
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Thesis Advisory Committee
Interdisciplinary Innovations Course
Social Innovations in NC Course
Intro to Social Innovation Course
Social Entrepreneurship Certificate
Office Space
University Funding of student enterprises
Student Legal Services/Support
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Top priorities
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Social Entrepreneur in Residence
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Devoted social entrepreneur in residence, at both Duke and UNC
Point-person to provide contacts and networking to establish mentor-student relationships
Single position devoted to teaching and fostering student ventures
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE1
Need Solution Outcomes
Long-term consistency and stability for cultivating culture of social entrepreneurship
Facilitate relationships across departments and universities, creating a support pool for fostering social entrepreneurs
Leader to provide oversight for culture and community of social entrepreneurship
Greater connectivity between campuses through establishing contacts and fostering student organizations
Source: Seeds team analysis
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Few academic courses on social innovation topics
Limited student exposure to real-life social enterprises
Limited university support and academic credit for work to launch social ventures
Academic course on “Principles and Practices of Social Enterprise”
Summer collaboration with DukeEngage to link students with regional social enterprises
Fall course to help students design and launch social ventures, follow on incubation program by Seeds
A TWO-PART VENTURE COURSE WILL GUIDE STUDENTS FROM THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
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Doubling of student spaces in SI courses by 2010
Sustained placement of students in at least 10 local social enterprises
More sustainable, successful social enterprises
Need Solution Outcomes
Source: Student survey, Seeds team analysis
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Socially engaged faculty profiles in online database
Faculty and graduate students post requests for undergraduate involvement online
SI faculty steering committee
Few student-faculty mentorships and collaborations on social innovation
Lack of university-wide strategic direction on SI initiatives
A FACULTY SOCIAL IMPACT GROUP CAN STREAMLINE MENTORING AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS
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Need Solution Outcomes
Formal University position on social innovation
Consistent point of reference to raise strategic concerns
Greater number of long-term, personal relationships between faculty and students
Expansion of and increased impact from collaborative social enterprises
No single place to address all faculty social innovators
Quarterly steering meetings
Annual faculty group meetings
Greater connectivity between faculty social innovators
Greater cross-departmental collaboration on social initiatives
Source: Seeds team analysis
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Students want more informal interactions with professors.
Difficult to approach faculty when not enrolled in their class.
Students need professors’ support and guidance on social innovations.
A faculty meals program would pay for student-faculty meals a la the Duke Conversations program.
The program would create a structured, albeit informal, means to engage faculty in intellectual dialogue.
Students build ties to faculty, with potential for guidance, advising, and mentoring, and collaboration.
FACULTY CONVERSATIONS CREATES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FACULTY AND STUDENTS
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Greater number of long-term, personal relationships between faculty and students
Heightened student understanding of how to apply academic learnings to real-life endeavours
More successful social enterprises
Need Solution Outcomes
Source: Student survey, Seeds team analysis
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STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE
•$120,000 in institute costs (~$1,000 per student), split between fees, national fundraising, host institution fundraising•Forty-hour intensive curriculum supplemented by independent team projects•Programs run either over the course of three months or in a four-day intensive format
THE STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE CAN REINFORCE DUKE AND CAROLINA’S REGIONAL SOCIAL INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
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Little sense of a broader social entrepreneur community
Social entrepreneurs have few facilities on campus for best practice sharing
Little sense of job opportunities in social innovation
Provide young leaders the skills and relationships for social entrepreneurship development.
Introduce industry best practices around corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
Corporate innovators, social entrepreneurs, and academics discuss methods for implementing social change through enterprise.
More proposed and successful social enterprises
New innovation due to increased cross-pollination of ideas
Accelerated scaling of successful social enterprises to other campuses
Need Solution Outcomes
Source: StartingBloc, student survey, Seeds team analysis
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NEXT STEPS
1. Social Entrepreneur In Residence• Identify key leaders to own design and selection process• Raise funds and establish institutional support
2. Two-part Social Venturing Course• Discuss potential for expanding size and/or sections of PPS 144s -Chris Gergen, • Identify faculty interested in teaching social venturing course collaboratively or alone
3 . Faculty Social Impact Committee• Identify members of initial Social Impact Steering Committee• Design interface for faculty to join Social Impact Group electronically• Create social impact group profiles -MARCH 2008
4. Informal Faculty Meal Program• Investigate potential alterations/enhancements to Duke Conversations program• Identify potential funding sources at UNC
5. StartingBloc Southern Institute• Discuss potential sources of funding and resources SEEDS and SI steering
committee, time: meet in january• Identify a faculty owner on each campus
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APPENDIX – IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINES
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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR FACULTY SOCIAL IMPACT GROUP
Construct Seeds website with unique user profiles
Compile list of socially-engaged faculty
Create faculty profiles on website
Convene faculty steering committee
Publicize SI faculty group profiles(June)
Faculty post current SI projects (August)
SI Faculty Group holds first annual meeting (September)
Steering Committee meets to discuss strategic direction and spring performance(December)
Increased student-faculty interaction on SI topics
Students involved in faculty projects
Steering Committee meets again (April)
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Feb 2008 March 2008 Summer 2008 Fall 2008 Ongoing
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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE
Spring 2008
Investigate funding sources
Compile list of interested faculty
Identify faculty owner at each campus
Work with Fuqua officials to set date and place of 2008 conference
Summer 2008 Fall 2008
Solidify funding sources
Create faculty committees for admission and programming
Work with StartingBloc to create online application
Publicize institute to students at southern universities
Begin accepting applications by late September
Host StartingBloc in December
Spring 2009
Debrief from conference. Identify potential improvements.
Investigate sustainable funding sources
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Construct Scale
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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR TWO-PART VENTURE COURSE3
New ELI program begins at Duke
Accreditation of course sought at UNC
ELI/DukeEngage summer internships
ELI business plan course
Identify professor or partnership for UNC venture series
ELI course continues at Duke
Launch of ELI incubator
First section of venture course at UNC
Student internships at NC social enterprises
Construct Scale
Spring 2008 Summ./Fall ‘08 Spring 2009 Summer 2009
“Launching your social venture” course at Duke and UNC
Fall 2009
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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR FACULTY CONVERSATIONS
Identify faculty or administrator owner(s) at each campus
Collaboratively investigate funding sources
Find partnering restaurants and coffee shops
Summer 2008 Fall 2008
Create online website.
Craft a student application and review process
Roll-out pilot of undergraduate program
Begin accepting applications in early September.
Spring 2009
Use feedback from participants to identify improvements.
Investigate sustainable funding sources
Spring 2008
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Demonstrated Demand and Need for SE at Duke
Current Demands
Public Policy 144, Enterprising Leadership
On average, twice the number of students apply for the class as there are spots available. Four times as many express interest before the interview and application process.
Barry Myers, Director Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization
“Demand for opportunities which help students set a vision far exceeds both our curricular and co-curricular abilities. We have a dozen programs that could be put into place with more teaching/mentorship ability.”
Students Interested in Service but Unaware of SE
450 students have met with Duke Engage.
SE offerings through Duke Engage are currently limited but Director Eric Mlyn has expressed that Duke Engage wants to support students interested in SE and will be building programs around it
Future Needs
Importance of SE to a Duke Liberal Arts Education
Increasing resources for SE is consonant with Duke's mission of cultivating students' development as adults who are capable of practically leading their communities in an ethical manner.
Duke produces leaders in finance in business. SE training would help them to be more humane and ethically responsible businessmen and women. SE fosters interdisciplinarity, promotes leadership and brings knowledge to the service of society