Life Design News

In the 2023-2024 school year, our life design materials were used by 40 different institutions of higher education to support over 1600 faculty, students and staff in designing their lives. Read about their experiences with our life design curricula below:…

Welcome our newest Life Design instructor, Nichole Valenzuela. Valenzuela is currently serving as the Assistant Director for Immersions and Interprofessional Education in Academic Affairs. She holds a Master of Science degree in Sustainability from Black Hills State University, where she…

Blake Lewis is a Senior Academic & Career Advisor for undergraduate students in Newcomb-Tulane College. He primarily focuses on students in science, engineering, and business. Blake has worked as a Student Affairs professional for six years, in Academic Advising and…

Ready to revolutionize the way you acquire knowledge? Use the following ChatGPT prompting guides as a go-to resource for seamless learning experiences like never before. The guides are organized into categories and cover a variety of topics. Check out specific…

Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online is a a guide that provides resources about integrating feminist pedagogy and technology into online, hybrid, and traditional undergraduate courses. The editors specifically designed the guide to support interdisciplinary topics and fields and to focus on…

Career Educators are tasked with the enormous and daunting task of preparing students for the future and future of work. Julia Lang, Taylor’s Associate Director for Career Education and Life Design, recently made The Case for ChatGPT as the Ultimate Career…

Throughout the year the Taylor Team has been working collectively to foster greater social impact and empower changemakers on campus and in the New Orleans community. Check out our annual report. Taylor Impact Report by Tulane Taylor Center

300 educators have accessed our Life Design materials to use in their school, campus, or classroom, reaching over 10,000 learners worldwide. The open access Taylor Your Life Educator materials were created to support changemaking career development with human-centered design methods…

Please fill out this brief interest form to help us build our next iteration of TYL4Grads.  Background Based on the popular undergraduate course, Taylor Your Life, TYL4Grads was designed to provide graduate and professional students more clarity and direction of their career paths and…

New Life Design Teaching and Training Opportunity The Taylor Center and School of Architecture recently announced an exciting opportunity for staff and faculty at Tulane to learn about and potentially teach life design courses at Tulane over the next few years,…

Background The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking cultivates a diverse network of changemakers who are working and learning together to create a more just and equitable society. Our programs are grounded in the teaching, research,…

Taylor Your Life is a changemaking career development lab that teaches undergraduate students how to approach their future with the mindset and toolkit of a designer.  Taylor Your Life (TYL) is a 2 credit 14-week social impact career development lab for…

Since 2016, the Phyllis M. Taylor Center at Tulane University has been at the forefront of universities teaching life design education. Our courses reach over 350 Tulane students per year, and more than 150 other universities have accessed our open-source…

About the Fall 2020 Report 65 students enrolled in TYL sections in Fall 2020. This was the first semester the class was offered online, due to COVID 19.  Feedback about the class online included: "I liked the breakout rooms a…

Julia Lang , professor of practice and associate director of career education and life design at the Taylor Center, recently spoke with Tulane University’s podcast On Good Authority about adapting the tenets from her “Taylor Your Life” class for anyone…

In a world changing in response to COVID-10, many of us find ourselves having completely restructured our lives and are in the midst of exploring entirely new ways to work, socialize, and imagine our professional journey ahead. Julia Lang, Taylor’s…

Julia Lang, Taylor’s Assistant Director of Career Education, has written What is Life Design? Taylor’s Ten Life Design Frameworks, a piece that condenses the underpinnings of our Life Design courses into ten core frameworks and mindsets while providing dozens of activities…

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, Julia Lang ran a webinar for Stanford University’s Life Design Studio to over 50 universities embedding life design on their campuses across the world. Julia shared how to recruit, train, and manage a fleet of…

By Julia Lang and Mehr Manzoor Our Taylor Your Life for Graduate Students workshop was just two weeks into its 5-week series when Tulane University announced campus was closing and all classes and programs would be moved online due to…

Tulane University's Taylor Your Life course was featured in a cover story in Christian Science Monitor. “I think we’re at a tipping point with universities,” says Julia Lang, assistant director for career education at Tulane University’s Taylor Center for Social…

Taylor Your Life for Graduate Students (TYL4G) is a 4-week changemaking career development lab for graduate students. Fall 2019 was the first session of this course, and we are excited to share a report on lessons learned and student feedback.…

Reflecting on the TYL4Grads Launch in Fall 2019 Greatest areas of learning and growth from the first cohort of Graduate Students who participated in TYL4Grads (Taylor Your Life for Graduate Students), a 4-week life design lab By Julia Lang and…

From video chat to flatscreen TVs, robotic help, printed food, drones and smartwatches, today’s innovations were once pure fantasies. The Taylor Life Design team is making predictions for the future of education and demonstrating how cultivating a design thinking mindset…

Jeff Schiffman, Director of Admission at Tulane University, is well known for his Admission Blog. Recently TYLR 3000 was highlighted in his article "Ten Cool Classes". Learn how to approach your future with the mindset and toolkit of a designer.…

By: Barri Bronston The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University has developed an online library with materials such as instructor guides, videos, worksheets and other resources to assist educators in helping university students…

View the Fall 2019 TYL4G Report Taylor Your Life for Graduate Students (TYL4G) is a 4-week changemaking career development lab for graduate students. Fall 2019 was the first session of this course, and we are excited to share a report…

View the Fall 2018 TYL Report Taylor Your Life is a changemaking career development lab that teaches undergraduate students how to approach their future with the mindset and toolkit of a designer.  Taylor Your Life (TYL) is a 2 credit 14-week…