At the Apereo Foundation MicroConference on December 10, 2025, Dylan Ruediger and Chelsea McCracken will report on the key findings and recommendations of “Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise,” a workshop hosted on August 8 by Ithaka S+R and the Apereo Foundation and funded by the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The workshop brought together 40 people across OSS communities of practice to discuss how OSS created by researchers in the…
Events
Catharine Bond Hill, John B. King, Jr. and David Brooks at the ATI Presidential Summit
Design Thinking for First-Year Success
Create, Evaluate, and Transform Programs
In a session at the Conference on the First-Year Experience in Seattle, Washington, Ithaka S+R’s Carmen Araoz will join Christine Harrington and Michael Sparrow of Morgan State University to explore how design thinking can transform the first-year seminar, orientation, advising, and other FYE programs. During this interactive workshop participants will learn about using a first-year seminar assessment tool and engage in a user-centric design thinking approach to transform the first-year experience. The session is scheduled to take place on…