Student Crowdsourcing on Campus

The concept of higher education has little meaning if ideas aren’t constantly bubbling up on campus to change what people think or do. Frequently, however, the adult staff-members and administrators have put themselves in charge of turning most ideas into decisions for the campus, even though it’s really the students being served. The use of crowdsourcing within idea generation can turn that tradition on its nose by allowing students to share their ideas, letting other students decide which ones have the most merit, and then implementing the best among them. That’s how it works at the University of Virginia, the school founded by Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville in 1819, currently serving about 21,000 students.

By Dian Schaffhauser

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