Education & Literacy

The Innovation Academy (IA) is a leading-edge undergraduate program that is poised to provide students with the skills of the 21st-century worldwide economy. We are proud of the foundation and culture of innovation we are delivering to all of our IA students. Our curriculum provides a clear path towards gaining a competitive advantage in today’s […]

The Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) at Brigham Young University, with Scott Petersen as its executive director, is BYU’s innovative program within the Marriott School of Business, and was the first university entrepreneurship program in the world to fully adopt the principles inspired by the lean startup movement. Executive Director and longtime entrepreneur

The brain is an incredibly complex organ best studied from multiple angles. At the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida MBI, teams of neuroscientists from across campus unite to form one of the nation’s most comprehensive and diverse neuroscience and neuromedical research programs.   University of Florida faculty

The name of Algonquin College’s newest building is a testament to innovation. The DARE District – the acronym stands for discovery, applied research and entrepreneurship – is a state-of-the-art structure devoted to providing the best in experiential, personalized learning. The $45-million structure, which opened in mid-2018, is a multidisciplinary space where students, employees, industry, and

  Claude Brulé, President – Algonquin College When Claude Brulé was appointed Algonquin College’s ninth president in mid-2019 he quickly embarked on an innovation agenda to establish experiential, personalized learning as the institution’s guiding educational principle for the future. “We know the people who walk through our doors, both physically and digitally, will not accept

  Prof./Dr. Susan R. Madsen, Founding Director – Orin r. Woodbury Professor of Leadership & Ethics Dr. Susan R. Madsen is the Orin R. Woodbury Professor of Leadership & Ethics in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University and also the Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project. She is also

With more than four million hours of one-on-one and small group instruction delivered on its Live Learning Platform, this edtech startup is redefining how students and professionals access personalized expertise. When Chuck Cohn founded Varsity Tutors in 2007, he began with $1,000 and a vision to revolutionize learning. Now the company connects students and professionals

The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is dedicated to creating positive social change through groundbreaking research and education in social work, public health, and social policy. Its community of faculty, graduate students, staff, and alumni works throughout St. Louis, across the country and worldwide—using the best evidence to advance racial, health, and

Missouri has not one, but many, outstanding research institutions— Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Missouri, Saint Louis University, and Stowers Institute for Medical Research among them. As the Executive Director of the Missouri Cures Education Foundation, I cultivate and maintain relationships with key policymakers, business leaders, researchers, and patient advocates in the

A TECH TALENT PIPELINE GROWS IN NEW JERSEY Ivan Alvarado enlisted in the Marines at 18 to serve his country and help build a strong foundation for his family. After serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, he transitioned into the civilian world where his true challenges began. After five years of service, Ivan has been open

In the fall of 2013, Danny Ludeman, former President and CEO of Wells Fargo Advisors, announced his retirement and decided to dedicate his life to helping others. After receiving a letter from Project COPE, a nonprofit in St. Louis that had been providing limited re-entry services to individuals leaving prison since 1985, Ludeman learned of

The pursuit of innovation through strategic opportunities and intelligent risks sounds like the opening line from an entrepreneur’s elevator pitch. In fact, it is how I explain to staff the key ingredients necessary to deliver innovative teaching and learning to students. As a school superintendent, I approach the deployment of educational programs and services more

Today NJIT has risen as one of the leading research institutions in the U.S., joining the Nation’s Top 100 Universities according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 College Rankings. That rise has come alongside Newark’s modern renaissance as one of the most dynamic emerging tech hubs on the East Coast — Panasonic, Amazon’s

NJIT’s designation in 2019 as an R1 university by the Carnegie Classification®, indicating “very high research activity,” capped NJIT’s swift, strategic rise as a research university. In 1979, the university’s research expenditures totaled $375,000; today they reach $170 million. Since 2014, total external R&D expenditures have been nearly doubled. In its strategic plan, NJIT names

Since opening in 2017, the Makerspace at NJIT, a training-focused, rapid prototyping facility that is central to both the university’s hands-on learning mission and its growing relationship with New Jersey’s manufacturing community, has given rise to a number of ingenious devices used in research experiments, club team contests and startup ventures: inserts for hockey skates;