Social Innovation

“Start with your why and then jump in...I had always been in an environment and thought that I have to wait until I’m done being a student to take action on the things that I care about. The Social Innovation Challenge allows you to do things while you’re a student too. I think that makes sense to include everybody because I think the urgency of social issues demand that everyone work on them.”

-Momina Meer, Social Innovation Challenge & Enactus team member

Social innovation programs at the University of Arkansas provide students with opportunities to explore pressing social and environmental problems affecting our communities. Through programs, classes, and global experiences, students learn how entrepreneurship and innovation can be a driver of solutions to problems they care about locally and across the globe.

Social Innovation Challenge

Social Innovation Challenge

The Social Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for students from disciplines across campus to showcase their work and take their social impact ideas to the next level. Whether you’re developing an idea in a class, with a team, or independently, the Social Innovation Challenge is designed to help you communicate your idea and find the support you need to move it forward.
Global Changemakers

Global Changemakers

This innovative study-abroad initiative fosters a global collaborative economy and explores critical challenges from a local and an international perspective, finding common ground in the development of viable, sustainable and scalable solutions to these problems. The purpose is to foster a global dialogue of changemakers and innovators, inviting them to think globally in order to act locally.
Social Innovation Classes

Social Innovation Classes

Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation: Assessment and Strategies, and Social Innovation Strategies.
Enactus

Enactus

Enactus is an international non-profit student organization engaging the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders to use innovation and business principles to improve the world.