Who are the Creative Inquiry Fellows?
Creative Inquiry Fellows are a community of creative, passionate, and engaged educators, thought leaders, academic entrepreneurs, and social changemakers from around the world. They are dedicated to collaborating, exchanging ideas and proven best practices, and building new relationships to develop their own programs and ecosystems that deliver impact-focused education.
The CI Fellows are grounded in the idea that creating leads to the deepest form of learning because it helps students grasp the relevance of their work while also demanding rigorous study and original research, often with engagement with a community of practice. CI Fellows are constantly pursuing new learning environments and ecosystems to build the next cadre of scientists, engineers, artists, accountants, sociologists, educators, who are ready to pursue new intellectual pathways and collaboratively address the challenges of our times, and to understand and solve problems that we don’t even know exist.
Why are the Creative Inquiry Fellows?
The Creative Inquiry Fellows foster and develop networks of connection, inspiration, and encouragement between innovators who believe deeply in the power of the hive. CI Fellows exist because working together, across the globe and within our local communities, we can design, develop, and reimagine pedagogies and practices. As faculty, administrators, program managers, and education designers, we encourage one another to ask the right questions, and to support anyone who wants to integrate the ethos of creating into the classroom and the field.
CI Fellows champion the development of the skill sets, mindsets, and portfolios of accomplishment that prepare students and faculty for impact-focused careers in a rapidly-changing world. We also champion the creation of new learning spaces where creative inquiry can occur, and new partnerships and pathways to impact once it does occur.
How do I become a Creative Inquiry Fellow?
Write to us at creative-inquiry-fellows@googlegroups.com! Tell us more about yourself, your dreams and goals, and how you would want to implement the kind of change that being a CI Fellow entails.
Meet the 2019-20 inaugural cohort of Creative Inquiry Fellows!
Julia Delk
Organization: University Innovation Project (UIP)
Email Me About: Innovative Curriculum Design; Student Engagment
What I'm Reading: Stanford 2025 Part 2 (report that was released on Oct 30, 2019)
Upcoming: I’m having a student group, TechShift, acquire the (s)stem toolkit, on Dec 3rd, we’re going to have a livestream webinar for TechShift members to learn about the history of the toolkit, etc. Would love help thinking through how to encourage the TechShift community to use the toolkit to the full potential (Q: what role could I play to help push it) and to help expose non TechShift members to the Toolkit--with a new opportunity to get more plugged into TechShift. Would love the help thinking through how I design this work/task.
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Jasper van Holsteijn
Organization: Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: One of my focus areas is to transform my university's Joint Humanitarian Entrepreneurship Summer Academy into a continuous program by incorporating its projects into our Innovation & Entrepreneurship and SDG courses, help organize a first Winter Academy, and collaborate with universities worldwide to set up a network of host universities (for the pre-project training) and project locations.
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Iain Kerr
Organization: Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: Teaching Experiential Disruptive Innovation.
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Aki Leung
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: My focus will be on scaling an experiential learning course (Entrepreneurship 1001). This course introduces the elements of entrepreneurial mindset, skill sets, design thinking and social entrepreneurship to undergraduates of all majors. The broad vision is that students will learn to become entrepreneur of themselves: owning their personal, academic and professional development. Through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship, I hope to contribute to a greater community that supports and empowers students and faculty in reimagining learning and education.
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Esther Obonyo
Organization: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: I will focus on developing strategies that can enable students interested in working on entrepreneurship challenges based on the use of non-conventional building technologies.
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Elmer Soriano
Organization: Civika Asian Development Academy, Manila, Philippines
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: One of my focus areas is to activate Bridging Leadership Institutes in 10 Philippine universities and support them along the way. The broad vision is to grow 1 million leaders who will improve the quality of life in their respective communities. The hope is to introduce practical leadership mindsets and skills into the curricula for all students by equipping faculty interested in teaching leadership/changemaking.
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Bill Whitney
Organization: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Impact statement/what you hope to work on through the Creative Inquiry Fellowship: I will have a dual focus during this fellowship. One, I will be mentoring a project team focused on social justice theatre, hoping to scale up that enterprise and define its intentions more clearly to make real progress. Simultaneously, I will be working on refining the GSIF, LVSIF, and Mountaintop programs at Lehigh University to make them more robust experiences for students that lead to tangible impacts.
What I'm Reading: Range, by David Epstein (2019)
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