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Fellow:Ben Shinogle

2015-10-23T03:14:07Z

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Ben Shinogle is a junior at William Jewell College majoring in political science and English. He is also a dedicated coffee drinker, avid reader, and travel enthusiast. Ben is driven by  in the importance of engaging the William Jewell community in many differing lenses, and pursues this interest via his involvement as Treasurer of the Student Body, Vice-President of his fraternity, a representative of the office of the President at William Jewell, and a Fellow with the Pryor Leadership program. 

Ben holds that we have a responsibility to help others wherever possible, drawing from Kahlil Gibran's dictum, "The quest for comfort kills the passion of the soul." Consistent with this ideal, Ben will be spending this summer in Edinburgh, interning with a member of Scottish parliament to engage in comparative research between political systems in the US and Scotland. Here he hopes to leverage this research in promoting effective healthy change on campus and beyond.

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2015-10-23T03:10:31Z

BenShinogle:

Priorities:William Jewell College Strategic Priorities

2015-10-09T03:58:53Z

BenShinogle:

= Strategic Priorities at William Jewell College =

= Priority 1: Creating Pop-Up Creativity Classes<br/> =

== What We Found<br/> ==
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-1b039d7f-4a80-a3c4-69f2-7c186ba22a2b"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Students were not always aware of possibilities. Many students are unaware of the many ideas that people are apart of on campus whether it be the aquaponics system or a student composing an original piece for a large performance. Many students on campus are unaware of the creativity coming from many students.</span></span><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">They are always bombarded with being creative and entrepreneurial. Students we interviewed felt as if the jargon surround innovation and entrepreneurship is oftentimes being pushed too hard and they are feeling overwhelmed. Jewell is a very innovative campus already and pushing students too far may cause many to back away.</span></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">They are not responding when asked to participate in many opportunities. Studies are one of the primary goals of William Jewell College and students who are involved in many activities do not feel as if they can take on any more responsibilities to make a change.</span></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>
== Goal<br/> ==
<div>Our goal is to create pop-up creativity classes that help to facilitate the ability for students to creativity and actively solve problems present on campus by using resources avalible to them. We do not want to push onto them jargon words and such but use words familiar to them that they feel comfortable using and understanding.<br/></div>
== Next Steps<br/> ==
<div>''Week''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Ask more students about interest in the class.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Review other colleges that also offer classes such as these.<br/></div><div>''Month''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Create an outline of what the class will look like.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Seek out funding.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive approval from administration.<br/></div><div>''Year''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Offer the class to students.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive feedback to make changes and improve class.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

= Priority 2: Faculty Highlights =

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">William Jewell College students, researchers, and entrepreneurs struggle to communicate their accomplishments across all disciplines. Students and faculty within each division know the achievements of their peers and teachers. However these successes are lost on the rest of the campus. By communicating these businesses, research and developments across campus we can begin to combine efforts to increase innovation and creativity on campus. </span>

== Taking Initiative ==

To guide a more connected campus we will need a better way to communicate across divisions. The hardest part of starting this initiative will be finding a way to communicate effectively to every student and faculty member.

By highlighting the accomplishments of faculty students will have a better understanding of the opportunities available to them. Having this information available to the Jewell community will also make it easier to connect with faculty members that one might never get the chance to interact with in their normal  schedule. 

This information can be provided to students through the Ipads either with an app, emails, or through the Hilltop Monitor, or by promoting them in the TV's in the PLC. 

== Difference ==

Knowing about all of the faculty members and their work outside of the classroom will give more students the opportunity know about the success that is surrounding them. This will give humanities students the opportunity to know what is happening in the sciences. By placing this information in public spaces a sense of community will be built around knowing the possibilities of success right here at Jewell.

= Priority 3: Developing Innovative Curricular Endeavors =
<div>
William Jewell College Students and Faculty have had difficulty starting large-scale projects with longevity and a diverse set of smaller interdisciplinary avenues/projects due to the lack of student and faculty body support. Students face barriers of hard-to-inspire colleagues and professors that have begun accepting the status quo. Students, Faculty, and staff have succumbed to excessive risk aversion. Facilitating the creation of large scale projects that utilize the resources of the local community and the forged relationships between students and faculty will invigorate the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and results of the College.

More specifically, the curriculum at Jewell is lacking interdisciplinary projects in all majors. Jewell should launch broad projects, with smaller projects intertwined that students can complete over their four year college career. These said projects would give students experience that would have a quantifiable solution to use to market themselves as they enter the job world in the future. This solution would not only benefit the student but also the beneficiaries of the project. For example if a broad project taken on by the college was to reduce poverty in Kansas City, then the small project would have to show a reduction in poverty on some quantitative level. A small project could be a psychology demographic research project of residents in Kansas City living in poverty. Finally, the college and faculty would benefit from a curriculum change such as this. Even as it would be more work, for faculty it would allow the college to be able to have marketing solutions and have a more concrete way of showing successful community outreach.

== Task 1: Collecting Initial Data ==

The first task is to complete research and map the demographics and plausibility of this proposal. As we talk to more faculty and students, we will learn more potential problems. Therefore the first task will be a base survey to collect and sort aggregate data as to the amount of support both from the college and for the surrounding community.

== Task 2: Developing Policy ==

Drafting a white page document that will serve as a formal proposal is the most important process. During this drafting process we will use expert insight into legal and contractual requirements. Eventually this document will be overhauled by student, faculty, and community leader committees before submitting the document to administration of the college.

== Task 3: Launching Initiative ==

Once support has been mapped, the next goal is start the marketing process. This will be done through social media, and campus engagement at first. Then later we will have a launch day where funding will be used to incentivize attendance and a website for the initiative will also be launched on this launch day.
</div>
= Priority 4: Interdisciplinary Communication =

== Tactic 1: Building Relationships<br/> ==
<div>Building relationships with leadership and faculty will allow for a means of entry into the faculty communication circle. Reaching out to faculty and attend a faculty meeting to open conversation about how William Jewell College can move from "polydisciplinary" - in which students are simultaneously engaged in many disciplines - to truly "interdiscplinary" - in which faculty and students connect disparate ideas and have investment in programs beyond the department.</div>
== Tactic 2: Pitching Interdisciplinary Ideas<br/> ==
<div>Communicating between areas of study and departments for the purpose of collaboration will benefit the community by expanding the effects of the liberal arts approach at William Jewell College. Inviting faculty from other departments to lectures, shadow a class, collaborate on curriculum, and share ideas are the objectives of interdepartmental communication. For example, if a class is discussing a subject that relates to that of another discipline, it could be enriching to bring a faculty member from the other department to speak on the subject. Furthermore, if a department had a program that could be of interest to a student outside the major, faculty to faculty communication could facilitate communicating this program to their students.</div><div><br/></div>
== Tactic 3: Unifying Silos<br/> ==
<div>As students have expressed, they feel comfortable communicating with faculty in their own discipline, but are hesitant to contact those who are not in their disciple. Breaking down silos that block communication could aid in encouraging students talking to faculty in other disciplines. As William Jewell is a liberal arts institution, it is a goal of the college to create well rounded individuals who value critical thinking. This goal can be facilitated through accessibility to the whole faculty, not just those in one's department.</div>
= Priority 5: Effective Campus Communication =
<div>William Jewell College is a small campus with just 1100 students. Combined with centralized campus "heartbeats" like our digital library and student union, Jewell is a place in which one feels as if they are always plugged in to campus community. Ironically, Jewell campus initiatives have had a profoundly difficult time relaying information and motivating the student body to attend events. This, combined with the small size of the college, can produce lackluster engagement at events. In short, serendipity and word of mouth are both relied upon and coming up short when it comes to campus communications.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
== Tactic 1: Define an Ideal Solution ==
<div>Our overarching goal is to be able to reach every student on Jewell's campus fully digitally. This will require a multi tiered approach: A centralized calendar with all campus activities that is readily accessible and easy to add events to is a starting point. From there, organizational mechanisms that allow the events to be easily sorted by type and time is a necessary component. Yet this vision needs to include at a glance features such as the capacity to see what is happening at "Jewell Today" or "Jewell This Week." Fast, relevant, easily accessible information. As an incentive, we want to capitalize on an individuals desire to be in the know by having auxiliary resources including description of campus clubs and their leadership, brief descriptions of events, and clarify what might be happening on campus not relevant to students. For example, a Trustee meeting or debate tournament--something that is not essential for students to know but may help explain what is happening and give a sense of context. While having information accessible is nice, sometimes it is not enought. This is why our vision also includes a network with a texting service, and push notifications to iPads from a scheduling app organized by student life. It is essential our concept work around the Jewellverse initiative in which each student has an iPad. This platform will be ideal for our final vision.</div>
== Tactic 2: Build Momentum and Prove a Need<br/> ==
<div>The above goal is a good one, but it could never be feasible in the immediacy for cost and logistical reasons. As such we would like to first create a first iteration of our larger goal for centralized communications. This could simply include a "Jewell Today" function on the Student Senate website with a "Jewell This Week" link beneath it. While the Senate Website does not have the capacity for push notifications, another Jewell app does, and the Provost of the college has already given us permission to use that to link to senate's website weekly. By offering a single push notification (released at the same time weekly when students and staff are typically comingling over cookies) with a link to a source of information, we hope to create a habit of referring to this somewhat rudimentary app often. If we can prove students use this, hopefully we can get the funding and logistical backing to create a more elaborate version of our plans.</div>
== Tactic 3: Create a Communication Mechanism Between Campus Leaders<br/> ==

<span style="font-size:smaller;">Separately, student leaders often find themselves working within a bubble without knowledge of other activities on campus. This is why we would like an organizational platform for working between campus leaders. This would allow collaboration on similar projects and avoid over programming students with too many activities one week and too few the next. Finally if campus leaders are aware of what is happening on campus in other spheres, they can communicate to the groups relevant to them and hopefully spark a culture of give and take by attending other groups events.</span>

= Related Resources =

[[William Jewell College|William Jewell College]]

2015-2016 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]], Ben Shinogle, [[Alex Holden|Alex Holden]], [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]], [[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]

Priorities:William Jewell College Strategic Priorities

2015-10-09T03:57:59Z

BenShinogle:

= Strategic Priorities at William Jewell College =

= Priority 1: Creating Pop-Up Creativity Classes<br/> =

== What We Found<br/> ==
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-1b039d7f-4a80-a3c4-69f2-7c186ba22a2b"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Students were not always aware of possibilities. Many students are unaware of the many ideas that people are apart of on campus whether it be the aquaponics system or a student composing an original piece for a large performance. Many students on campus are unaware of the creativity coming from many students.</span></span><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">They are always bombarded with being creative and entrepreneurial. Students we interviewed felt as if the jargon surround innovation and entrepreneurship is oftentimes being pushed too hard and they are feeling overwhelmed. Jewell is a very innovative campus already and pushing students too far may cause many to back away.</span></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">They are not responding when asked to participate in many opportunities. Studies are one of the primary goals of William Jewell College and students who are involved in many activities do not feel as if they can take on any more responsibilities to make a change.</span></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>
== Goal<br/> ==
<div>Our goal is to create pop-up creativity classes that help to facilitate the ability for students to creativity and actively solve problems present on campus by using resources avalible to them. We do not want to push onto them jargon words and such but use words familiar to them that they feel comfortable using and understanding.<br/></div>
== Next Steps<br/> ==
<div>''Week''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Ask more students about interest in the class.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Review other colleges that also offer classes such as these.<br/></div><div>''Month''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Create an outline of what the class will look like.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Seek out funding.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive approval from administration.<br/></div><div>''Year''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Offer the class to students.<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive feedback to make changes and improve class.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

= Priority 2: Faculty Highlights =

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">William Jewell College students, researchers, and entrepreneurs struggle to communicate their accomplishments across all disciplines. Students and faculty within each division know the achievements of their peers and teachers. However these successes are lost on the rest of the campus. By communicating these businesses, research and developments across campus we can begin to combine efforts to increase innovation and creativity on campus. </span>

== Taking Initiative ==

To guide a more connected campus we will need a better way to communicate across divisions. The hardest part of starting this initiative will be finding a way to communicate effectively to every student and faculty member.

By highlighting the accomplishments of faculty students will have a better understanding of the opportunities available to them. Having this information available to the Jewell community will also make it easier to connect with faculty members that one might never get the chance to interact with in their normal  schedule. 

This information can be provided to students through the Ipads either with an app, emails, or through the Hilltop Monitor, or by promoting them in the TV's in the PLC. 

== Difference ==

Knowing about all of the faculty members and their work outside of the classroom will give more students the opportunity know about the success that is surrounding them. This will give humanities students the opportunity to know what is happening in the sciences. By placing this information in public spaces a sense of community will be built around knowing the possibilities of success right here at Jewell.

= Priority 3: Developing Innovative Curricular Endeavors =
<div>
William Jewell College Students and Faculty have had difficulty starting large-scale projects with longevity and a diverse set of smaller interdisciplinary avenues/projects due to the lack of student and faculty body support. Students face barriers of hard-to-inspire colleagues and professors that have begun accepting the status quo. Students, Faculty, and staff have succumbed to excessive risk aversion. Facilitating the creation of large scale projects that utilize the resources of the local community and the forged relationships between students and faculty will invigorate the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and results of the College.

More specifically, the curriculum at Jewell is lacking interdisciplinary projects in all majors. Jewell should launch broad projects, with smaller projects intertwined that students can complete over their four year college career. These said projects would give students experience that would have a quantifiable solution to use to market themselves as they enter the job world in the future. This solution would not only benefit the student but also the beneficiaries of the project. For example if a broad project taken on by the college was to reduce poverty in Kansas City, then the small project would have to show a reduction in poverty on some quantitative level. A small project could be a psychology demographic research project of residents in Kansas City living in poverty. Finally, the college and faculty would benefit from a curriculum change such as this. Even as it would be more work, for faculty it would allow the college to be able to have marketing solutions and have a more concrete way of showing successful community outreach.

== Task 1: Collecting Initial Data ==

The first task is to complete research and map the demographics and plausibility of this proposal. As we talk to more faculty and students, we will learn more potential problems. Therefore the first task will be a base survey to collect and sort aggregate data as to the amount of support both from the college and for the surrounding community.

== Task 2: Developing Policy ==

Drafting a white page document that will serve as a formal proposal is the most important process. During this drafting process we will use expert insight into legal and contractual requirements. Eventually this document will be overhauled by student, faculty, and community leader committees before submitting the document to administration of the college.

== Task 3: Launching Initiative ==

Once support has been mapped, the next goal is start the marketing process. This will be done through social media, and campus engagement at first. Then later we will have a launch day where funding will be used to incentivize attendance and a website for the initiative will also be launched on this launch day.
</div>
= Priority 4: Interdisciplinary Communication =

== Tactic 1: Building Relationships<br/> ==
<div>Building relationships with leadership and faculty will allow for a means of entry into the faculty communication circle. Reaching out to faculty and attend a faculty meeting to open conversation about how William Jewell College can move from "polydisciplinary" - in which students are simultaneously engaged in many disciplines - to truly "interdiscplinary" - in which faculty and students connect disparate ideas and have investment in programs beyond the department.</div>
== Tactic 2: Pitching Interdisciplinary Ideas<br/> ==
<div>Communicating between areas of study and departments for the purpose of collaboration will benefit the community by expanding the effects of the liberal arts approach at William Jewell College. Inviting faculty from other departments to lectures, shadow a class, collaborate on curriculum, and share ideas are the objectives of interdepartmental communication. For example, if a class is discussing a subject that relates to that of another discipline, it could be enriching to bring a faculty member from the other department to speak on the subject. Furthermore, if a department had a program that could be of interest to a student outside the major, faculty to faculty communication could facilitate communicating this program to their students.</div><div><br/></div>
== Tactic 3: Unifying Silos<br/> ==
<div>As students have expressed, they feel comfortable communicating with faculty in their own discipline, but are hesitant to contact those who are not in their disciple. Breaking down silos that block communication could aid in encouraging students talking to faculty in other disciplines. As William Jewell is a liberal arts institution, it is a goal of the college to create well rounded individuals who value critical thinking. This goal can be facilitated through accessibility to the whole faculty, not just those in one's department.</div>
= Priority 5: Effective Campus Communication =
<div>William Jewell College is a small campus with just 1100 students. Combined with centralized campus "heartbeats" like our digital library and student union, Jewell is a place in which one feels as if they are always plugged in to campus community. Ironically, Jewell campus initiatives have had a profoundly difficult time relaying information and motivating the student body to attend events. This, combined with the small size of the college, can produce lackluster engagement at events. In short, serendipity and word of mouth are both relied upon and coming up short when it comes to campus communications.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
== Tactic 1: Define an Ideal Solution ==
<div>Our overarching goal is to be able to reach every student on Jewell's campus fully digitally. This will require a multi tiered approach: A centralized calendar with all campus activities that is readily accessible and easy to add events to is a starting point. From there, organizational mechanisms that allow the events to be easily sorted by type and time is a necessary component. Yet this vision needs to include at a glance features such as the capacity to see what is happening at "Jewell Today" or "Jewell This Week." Fast, relevant, easily accessible information. As an incentive, we want to capitalize on an individuals desire to be in the know by having auxiliary resources including description of campus clubs and their leadership, brief descriptions of events, and clarify what might be happening on campus not relevant to students. For example, a Trustee meeting or debate tournament--something that is not essential for students to know but may help explain what is happening and give a sense of context. While having information accessible is nice, sometimes it is not enought. This is why our vision also includes a network with a texting service, and push notifications to iPads from a scheduling app organized by student life. It is essential our concept work around the Jewellverse initiative in which each student has an iPad. This platform will be ideal for our final vision.</div>
== Tactic 2: Build Momentum and Prove a Need<br/> ==
<div>The above goal is a good one, but it could never be feasible in the immediacy for cost and logistical reasons. As such we would like to first create a first iteration of our larger goal for centralized communications. This could simply include a "Jewell Today" function on the Student Senate website with a "Jewell This Week" link beneath it. While the Senate Website does not have the capacity for push notifications, another Jewell app does, and the Provost of the college has already given us permission to use that to link to senate's website weekly. By offering a single push notification (released at the same time weekly when students and staff are typically comingling over cookies) with a link to a source of information, we hope to create a habit of referring to this somewhat rudimentary app often. If we can prove students use this, hopefully we can get the funding and logistical backing to create a more elaborate version of our plans.</div>
== Tactic 3: Create a Communication Mechanism Between Campus Leaders<br/> ==

== <span style="font-size:smaller;">Separately, student leaders often find themselves working within a bubble without knowledge of other activities on campus. This is why we would like an organizational platform for working between campus leaders. This would allow collaboration on similar projects and avoid over programming students with too many activities one week and too few the next. Finally if campus leaders are aware of what is happening on campus in other spheres, they can communicate to the groups relevant to them and hopefully spark a culture of give and take by attending other groups events.</span> ==

= Related Resources =

[[William Jewell College|William Jewell College]]

2015-2016 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]], Ben Shinogle, [[Alex Holden|Alex Holden]], [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]], [[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]

School:William Jewell College

2015-10-09T03:09:06Z

BenShinogle:

= Overview<br/> =

[[File:William Jewell College Logo 1.jpg|thumb|William Jewell College Logo 1.jpg]] William Jewell College is a small liberal arts institution established in 1849. The college has called Liberty, Missouri its home for over 165 years. Today the campus is about 200 acres in size, and sits on a hill overlooking the Kansas City skyline.  The average enrollment is around 1,100 students, making the student to faculty ratio eleven to one. The college places a strict emphasis on service, leadership, and spiritual growth with a motto, “Deo Fisus Labora,” meaning, “Trust in God, Work.”

William Jewell advertises their four-year degree as being “a journey rich with opportunities.” With over 40 majors to choose from, the college provides students with opportunities to collaborate in a state of the art technology based learning commons, utilize a Journey Grant ($2,000.00) to pursue a passion of their own design, be a Division II athlete, research with a professor in their major field of study, launch an entrepreneurial venture through the college's Idea Exchange, and much more. The school's motto is "Live what you learn."

The college focuses on achievement, experiential learning and leadership, and critical thinking. Consistently ranked among America’s best colleges, William Jewell College is cited for small class sizes, low student debt, high graduation rates, commitment to service, and overall value. 

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =

Presently, Jewell students from physics and business are the most engaged in entrepreneurship. This is because of the focus on engineering and entrepreneurial courses, respectively. One goal of the 2015-16 Leadership Circle is to engage interdisciplinary students and help market our existing resources to students across campus. There are several student organizations dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation, detailed below. Additionally, students leverage resources in the Kansas City entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as Lean Startup Machine workshops. There are also many makerspaces that encourage collaboration among students and students have many resources through on-campus faculty. Students also have the Adobe Suite at their disposal on specific computers in the Pryor Learning Commons. There is also a 3D printer. There is a great amount of resources that students could be using in entrepreneurial endeavors. 

= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =

Faculty have two primary avenues for innovation: inside the class and outside the class. Innovation in the classroom requires student interaction in place of a purely lecture-based course. Jewell's mission to create critical thinkers through its core curriculum is served by this end: a liberal arts education is furthered by enabling students to voice their thoughts, hear criticism, and increase the rigor of their intellectual engagement. Some courses already embody this ideal, but others have room to grow. There are, however, opportunities in the business and marketing classes to do real, hands-on marketing and product research through projects. This could be a great jumping off point. There are many project-based classes that could expand more into entrepreneurialship. Transitioning towards a curriculum that supports innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset is a gradual process that the current Leadership Circle aims to begin.

= Innovation and Entrepreneurship On Campus<br/> =

At William Jewell, students have many available resources to use when it comes to I&E. The school offers various clubs, events, and maker spaces that are for student use.

== Clubs and Organizations<br/> ==

The clubs and organizations that we have on campus are the TECH Club, E-Society, InScape Digital Magazine, and Jewell Communication and Theatre Society. The TECH Club, also known as Teach Everyone Coding and Hardware, is a club that reaches out to campus to educate and create awareness of technology and coding. The E-Society is the Jewell Entrepreneur Society that does events throughout the year as well as creates an interest for entrepreneurship and innovation in the student body.  The Jewell Communication and Theatre Society helps assist students with networking with professionals and teaches about the possible careers in this subject matter.

== Events<br/> ==

     William Jewell College offers and extensive list of events for students to go to which include an extensive lecture series, Big Omaha, Big Kansas City, the Kansas City Maker Faire, and One Million Cups. Organizations around campus also contribute to events that help inspire innovation and entrepreneurship such as visiting lecturere series sponsored by the chemistry and biology departments, a professor sponsored weekly networking meeting called BizTime Coffee, Lean Startup Machine in Kansas City that is sponsored by the Business Department, and Think Big Pitch Camp that is also sponsored by the Business Department. 

     The fall 2014 UIF cohort started an annual event called #OnedayKC. Through partnerships with the University of Missouri Kansas City, Think Big Partners, the Kaufmann Foundation, and other local businesses and organizations #OnedayKC became the collegiate entrepreneurial event of the year for the Kansas City area by bringing together students from multiple instituitions for a day of innovation and entrepreneurship. The 2015 cohort is looking forward to expanding and improving upon the already excellent model for this amazing event. 

== Spaces<br/> ==

The College built a new building called the Pryor Learning Commons just two years ago that consists of spaces dedicated to I&E. These spaces are open to the whole campus and are able to be reserved for any time of the day. These spaces include a graphics suite, an audio suite, a 3D printing suite, an editing suite for graphics, and  multiple collaboration spaces.

On Jewell’s campus there are two shops in the Physics Department that are the machine shop and the electronics shop. These spaces, are however, mostly used by students in the Physics Department. These shops require special training to use which makes them less accessible to the larger student body.

A private shop is located about thirty-five minutes away called the Design Shop and it is available for student use. It is a business professor initiative at bringing design and creativity to campus and to the community.

== Opportunities<br/> ==

The college offers numerous opportunities to engage in unique innovative experiences. These opportunities include the Career Mentor Program, the Journey Grant, and the Kauffman Grant.

The Career Mentor program matches students from any discipline on campus to a professional mentor in the Kansas City area to do a job shadowing experience of 10 hours minimum. This program allows students to gain a better understanding of a career field and it connects professionals to the college through a professional relationship with a Jewell student.

The Journey Grant is a $2,000 minimum grant that allows Jewell students to study abroad, attend a conference, or start a business with these funds. To use the Journey Grant, a student must apply for it to use during their Junior or Senior year. The school offers pre-planned trips that include learning about business on a ranch, learning about third world communities and economies in Honduras, the British Teacher Education Program, among others.

Students at William Jewell College have the opportunity to apply for funding for a start-up or business venture through the Kauffman Grant. The students can apply through the Director of Creativity and Innovation to have access to these funds that allow students to gain real world experiences with real money to start up.

= Evaluation of Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =

     William Jewell is rapidly growing its Creativity and Innovation program and other campus-wide efforts, to the degree that the word "entrepreneurship," "innovation," and "creativity" find themselves at the center of nearly every new project and initative. The University Innovation fellows welcome this environment, but currently find ourselves grounding campus projects and initiatives into doable, process based creativity. While we encourage "thinking big," we consider it equally important to consider the multi-stepped, process-based origin of true creative work. Projects that include faculty recognition, centralized data regarding campus activities, and better communications mechanisms for campus leaders all include big goals--yet we continue to seek first iterations of these projects to use as prototypes to better evaluate the underlying need of the initiatives at hand. From there, we intend to garner the immediate success of various initiatives into the energy and support needed to reach their fullest conceptions.

     In line with this goal, Jewell has collected data from faculty and student interviews about innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement over the last year, and this content area will eventually summarize those data along with that collected by the Leadership Circle. Some of the ways Jewell has utilized the collected data is the creation of the college's first ever engineering program, which it is in the midst of now. In the fall of 2016 William Jewell College will be welcoming its first ever class of civil engineers. The program will have an environmental emphasis and focus on four technical areas: environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic and structural. The addition of this department will certainly add to the innovation and entrepreneruship on Jewell's campus. 

= Landscape Canvas =

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= Related Resources<br/> =

[[William Jewell College Strategic Priorities|William Jewell College Strategic Priorities]]

2015-2016 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]], Ben Shinogle, [[Alex Holden|Alex Holden]], [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]], [[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]

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