Life Design Materials reach 1600 global learners in 2023/2024
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 Nichole Valenzuela
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…
Welcome Blake Lewis
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…
ChatGPT Prompting Guides
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…
Harnessing Generative AI to Support Feminist Pedagogy
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…
Julia Lang makes the Case for ChatGPT as the Ultimate Career Educator’s Toolkit
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…
Taylor Impact 2022-2023
Tulane University Life Design Education Reaching Over 10,000 Students Globally
Graduate Students: How can we help you Design Your Life? Fill out a brief interest form!
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…
Life Design Teaching and Training Opportunity for Tulane Staff & Faculty
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,…
Request for Proposals: Evaluation Consultant
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 Spring 2021 Report
Announcing Taylor Your Life 2.0: A More Equitable and Inclusive Life Design Curriculum
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…
Taylor Your Life Fall 2020 Report
Julia Lang featured in Tulane Podcast on Good Authority
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…
7 Steps to (Re)Designing Your Life in a World with COVID-19
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 writes an article on the ten frameworks of life design
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…
Julia Lang leads Life Design Education training for 50 Universities
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…
Taylor Your Life for Graduate Students: Lessons Learned Pivoting to Zoom
Designing life: How college courses in coping are booming
Life Design for Graduate Students: Impact Report
Reflecting on Taylor’s first Life Design Lab for Graduate Students
Taylor Design Thinking at the Network of Sacred Heart Schools
Tulane Admissions Blog: “10 Cool Classes”
Taylor offers free material for teaching students about social impact careers
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…
