Red House Staff Attend PHENND Conference

On February 23rd, 2024, Red House team members Susannah McGowan, Tad Howard, Randy Bass, and Ijeoma Njaka gave a plenary workshop at the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND) conference at Rutgers-Camden. PHENND is a consortium of over 25 colleges and universities in the greater Philadelphia area, and seeks to revitalize local communities and schools and foster civic responsibility among the region’s colleges and universities.

The workshop focused on the Three Horizons framework and its implications for the Paradigm Project, which seeks to enhance the narrative of higher education as a public good. The Three Horizons framework is designed to foster conversations about the future that recognize that there are multiple versions of the future that all exist in the present. The first horizon represents business as usual, the second represents disruptive innovation, and the third represents the emerging future.

The Red House is an “Emerging Model” of the Paradigm Project, under which we’re working with other emerging models (College Unbound, Bonner Foundation, PHENND) to articulate the purpose of higher education for institutional communities. The Paradigm Project encourages us to ask questions like “What experiences and outcomes do we believe all college students deserve?” and “What do we believe is higher ed’s responsibility to the larger society?