Elevate: Asia Pacific

Proposal Link

Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026

Selection Announcement: 15 October 2026

Topics

• Rethinking Assessment in an AI-Enabled Classroom — redesigning assessment for the generative AI era, including oral/live assessment, AI-enabled vs. AI-restricted approaches, and demonstrating independent thinking. 
• The Changing Role of Faculty — how AI is changing faculty roles before, during, and after class, including course design, discussion, feedback, assessment, faculty development, judgment, and deeper thinking. 
• Graduate Employment — improving graduate employment outcomes and examining what business schools can realistically do to prepare students for an increasingly competitive labor market. 
• Redesigning a Future-Ready Curriculum — curriculum innovation in response to AI, technology, geopolitics, sustainability, human skills, and interdisciplinary learning, including experiential and project-based approaches. 
• Building Better Business Partnerships — leveraging employers, industry, alumni, and other partners to support curriculum, experiential learning, careers, research, societal impact, and school reputation. 
• Teaching Effectiveness — defining and demonstrating effective teaching across different institutional missions, cultures, disciplines, and educational contexts. 
• Rethinking the Business School Model — emerging models for business education, including program portfolios, delivery models, institutional structures, industry integration, technology, and connections across the broader university. 
• The Financially Sustainable Business School — responding to enrollment volatility, demographic change, rising costs, technology investments, and other financial pressures through portfolio, revenue, cost, and investment strategies. 
• From Research Impact Frameworks to Systems Change — moving beyond measuring research impact to changing incentives, faculty practices, external engagement, and institutional systems to produce meaningful impact. 
• Climate Change: The Case for Interdisciplinary Education — using interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration to prepare students to address complex societal challenges. 
• Demographic Decline: Strategies for Business Schools — responding to shrinking traditional student populations through portfolio redesign, new learner segments, regional recruitment, cross-border education, and other strategies. 
• Regional Mobility: New Patterns & Opportunities — changing student mobility patterns across Asia Pacific and opportunities for regional recruitment, exchanges, institutional partnerships, and cross-border offerings.