As the Fall 2024 semester at Arizona State University (ASU) kicks off, so does a new cohort of the Leadership Academy, which seeks to nurture and empower 34 ASU leaders this year. This is the 12th cohort of the Leadership Academy at ASU. The Academy is one of three leadership development programs managed by the University Design Institute, including the Advanced Leadership Initiative and the Launching Leaders Program.

The University Design Institute (UDI) recently recruited Lisa Foss as the new Senior Director of U.S. Practice. Foss brings over two decades of experience advising senior university leadership on strategic planning and innovative approaches to structural challenges in higher education.

Sixteen senior academic officials from twelve (12) Philippine Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) began their journey as Higher Education Innovation Leaders Fellows of the ASU-led fellowship program as part of the UPSKILL program. 

The University Design Institute was recently engaged by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System to facilitate a months-long Design Accelerator with three of its universities to support its Equity 2030 initiative.

The University Design Institute welcomed 12 higher education leaders from the Philippines on June 21 and 22 to connect with leaders from across Arizona State University. The trip was part of the United States Philippines Partnership for Skills, Innovation and Life-long Learning, or UPSKILL, which is a multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to transform higher education on a nationwide scale in the Philippines.

For more than a decade, Arizona State University has worked in Vietnam to transform and modernize engineering and technical vocational universities. The University Design Institute engaged in co-design with seven Vietnamese universities to support the development of institutional charters and contextualized vision activation plans.