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.

Remote collaboration has become the new norm during COVID-19 and will continue to be as higher education expands globally. UDI experts engaged with 70+ Brazilian universities on best practices in digital education.

UDI partnered with Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota to drive re-envisioning efforts for the institution. Participating university leadership, staff and external stakeholders addressed multi-campus strategies towards creating a new university model.

Linnaeus University engaged with UDI to advance their 5-year strategic roadmap. Sessions included interdisciplinary collaboration, strategic partnerships, leadership development and organizational culture.

18 Brazilian universities engaged with UDI for best practices to overcome barriers to institutional collaboration and innovation.  Sessions included interdisciplinary collaboration, higher education innovative models, multi-university partnerships, and digital innovation. 

Zayed University (ZU) embarked on a large-scale effort to redesign the university as an exemplar interdisciplinary institution of higher education. UDI’s engagement supported ZU with designing the future-state university including: vision and core values, institutional structure, KPIs, external engagement model, building capacity for translational and interdisciplinary research and data-driven decision making.