Change Your World
This Common Theme invites IUPUI students, staff and faculty and the broader community to a two-year discussion about how to change the world around them. Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many. [More..]
2012-2013 Common Theme Book(s)
The official book for Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 is Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
In addition, you may wish to use the following titles in addition to OR in place of the Kristof and WuDunn book:
- Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee
- For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places by Peter Kageyama
- Unnoticed Neighbors: A Pilgrimage into the Social Justice Story by Erina Ludwig (Indianapolis author)
- Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
- Where Am I Wearing? A global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes by Kelsey Timmerman (Muncie, Indiana author)
- Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World by Jonathan Tisch
You are also welcome to continue using David Bornstein's How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas.
2011-2012 Common Theme Book
This year's Common Theme book is David Bornstein's How to Change the World.
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IUPUI Social Entrepreneurship Network on LinkedIn
You may also join the "Social Entrepreneurs" project site in Oncourse by searching on "social entrepreneurs" in Oncourse, or by contacting Kathleen Hanna (kgreatba@iupui.edu) to be added manually.
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