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School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T23:33:53Z

Fieldsjr1:

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship =

Wofford College has a number of programs that are designed to aid students with entrepreneurial goals. The SPACE, for instance, is a department whose goal is to work with students to help them develop professional skills and work on transforming innovative ideas into projects or businesses. Two of the programs in the The SPACE, The Space to Impact and The Space to Launch, work together to elaborate on these project and business ideas. During each spring semester, Impact and Launch students engage in the Impact and Launch Competition, a Shark Tank styled competition where ten students--five from Impact and five from Launch--pitch their project or business ideas to a panel of judges and investors. The winners of the event (one from Impact and one from Launch) receive various prizes, such as capital, networking contacts, and office space, in order to help them in their endeavours.

The Leadership Circle at Wofford College is also trying to make more available the tools that are necessary for innovation. Cole McCarty is working with The SPACE to develop a Makerspace, which students (and faculty) will be able to use for prototyping, design, and 3D modeling. The Makerspace would have such equipment as a 3D printer, which Wofford already has, lazer cutters, computers equiped with modelling software, and more.

Below is a description of The SPACE mentioned above, which is the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship encouragement at Wofford.

== <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE ==

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

=== The Space to Prepare ===

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

=== The Space to Impact ===

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

=== The Space to Launch ===

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

=== The Space to Consult ===

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

=== The Space to Explore ===

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

= Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function =

This is an area where Wofford may need to improve. Because we are a very small college with a limited amount of resources compared to a large university, a central office that focuses specifically as a central point for students, faculty, alumni, investors, and the industries to come together, may not be something that we need per say. Wofford has The Space which does much of this already. An advantage of being a small school is that all of our students have the opportunity to work with faculty and alumni and to network with potential investors within their respective industries. This isn't to say that we can't improve upon our system with how we are able to build bridges between all of our resources, but instead tailor it to our specfic size and community at Wofford. 

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

Right now, the strongest connectionthat Wofford College has with industry in the surrounding area is with the Iron Yard. By their description,"The Iron Yard exists to create exceptional value for people and their ideas through code education, startup accelerators and coworking spaces." The Iron Yard is a thinktank and startup incubator headquartered in Greenville, SC and with its second location in Spartanburg, SC, both of which are very near Wofford's campus. The SPACE at Wofford has held a number of events in conjunction with the Iron Yard, both on Wofford's campus and on the Iron Yard's campuses. The Iron Yard teaches coding classes to entrepreneurs needing to learn the skill, and also provides startup support for entrepreneurs looking to get off the ground. Most importantly, the Iron Yard serves as a networking hub through which a number of different professionals (programmers, designeers, investors, business managers, event coordinators, etc.) flow. This is most significant to Wofford students because is provides a centralized place for students to look for professional expertise or connections to other third parties.

Also of importance is a capital network in South Carolina Angel Network (SCAN). SCAN is "an association of angel groups and early stage investors located across the Palmetto State." SCAN is a significant source of venture capitalist funding throughout South Carolina, especially in areas of more extensive business. In January 2015, SCAN launched another sub-network, the Spartanburg Angel Network, which carries out the same purpose of SCAN and its other sub-networks, but is specific to the Spartanburg area. Spartanburg's network was spearheaded by John Bauknight, a local success and business owner (of a restaurant and brewery in Spartanburg). The Spartanburg Angel Network is comprised of business owners and investors looking to grow their money through venture capitalism, which is of great interest to Wofford's entrepreneurs. Some faculty and alumni of Wofford have contacts with John Bauknight, and the Spartanburg Angel Network could potentially be a valuable resource for collaboration and partnership.

= Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts =

== Freshman Serivice Projects ==

Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their first semester at the college. In doing so, they instill in the incoming students the notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and focuses largely on service and giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, but has focused on recently on mass packing and shipping of food packages to countries in need.

== On-Campus Service Organizations and Student Led Projects ==

Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for service in the community. Philip Haabib, a freshman, has a project in which he works with down-on-their-luck citizens in the community and helps push them through classes at a community college and allows them to find jobs. 

== ==

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

T[http://theironyard.com/ he Iron Yard Website]

[http://www.scangelnetwork.com/spartanburg-angel-network/ The Spartanburg Angel Network]

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T23:32:24Z

Fieldsjr1:

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T23:31:08Z

Fieldsjr1:

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T23:21:27Z

Fieldsjr1:

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship =

Wofford College has a number of programs that are designed to aid students with entrepreneurial goals. The SPACE, for instance, is a department whose goal is to work with students to help them develop professional skills and work on transforming innovative ideas into projects or businesses. Two of the programs in the The SPACE, The Space to Impact and The Space to Launch, work together to elaborate on these project and business ideas. During each spring semester, Impact and Launch students engage in the Impact and Launch Competition, a Shark Tank styled competition where ten students--five from Impact and five from Launch--pitch their project or business ideas to a panel of judges and investors. The winners of the event (one from Impact and one from Launch) receive various prizes, such as capital, networking contacts, and office space, in order to help them in their endeavours.

The Leadership Circle at Wofford College is also trying to make more available the tools that are necessary for innovation. Cole McCarty is working with The SPACE to develop a Makerspace, which students (and faculty) will be able to use for prototyping, design, and 3D modeling. The Makerspace would have such equipment as a 3D printer, which Wofford already has, lazer cutters, computers equiped with modelling software, and more.

Below is a description of The SPACE mentioned above, which is the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship encouragement at Wofford.

== <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE ==

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

=== The Space to Prepare ===

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

=== The Space to Impact ===

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

=== The Space to Launch ===

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

=== The Space to Consult ===

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

=== The Space to Explore ===

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

= Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function =

This is an area where Wofford may need to improve. Because we are a very small college with a limited amount of resources compared to a large university, a central office that focuses specifically as a central point for students, faculty, alumni, investors, and the industries to come together, may not be something that we need per say. Wofford has The Space which does much of this already. An advantage of being a small school is that all of our students have the opportunity to work with faculty and alumni and to network with potential investors within their respective industries. This isn't to say that we can't improve upon our system with how we are able to build bridges between all of our resources, but instead tailor it to our specfic size and community at Wofford. 

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

Right now, the strongest connectionthat Wofford College has with industry in the surrounding area is with the Iron Yard. By their description,"The Iron Yard exists to create exceptional value for people and their ideas through code education, startup accelerators and coworking spaces." The Iron Yard is a thinktank and startup incubator headquartered in Greenville, SC and with its second location in Spartanburg, SC, both of which are very near Wofford's campus. The SPACE at Wofford has held a number of events in conjunction with the Iron Yard, both on Wofford's campus and on the Iron Yard's campuses. The Iron Yard teaches coding classes to entrepreneurs needing to learn the skill, and also provides startup support for entrepreneurs looking to get off the ground. Most importantly, the Iron Yard serves as a networking hub through which a number of different professionals (programmers, designeers, investors, business managers, event coordinators, etc.) flow. This is most significant to Wofford students because is provides a centralized place for students to look for professional expertise or connections to other third parties.



= Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts =

== Freshman Serivice Projects ==

Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their first semester at the college. In doing so, they instill in the incoming students the notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and focuses largely on service and giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, but has focused on recently on mass packing and shipping of food packages to countries in need.

== On-Campus Service Organizations and Student Led Projects ==

Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for service in the community. Philip Haabib, a freshman, has a project in which he works with down-on-their-luck citizens in the community and helps push them through classes at a community college and allows them to find jobs. 

== ==

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T23:05:37Z

Fieldsjr1:

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship =

Wofford College has a number of programs that are designed to aid students with entrepreneurial goals. The SPACE, for instance, is a department whose goal is to work with students to help them develop professional skills and work on transforming innovative ideas into projects or businesses. Two of the programs in the The SPACE, The Space to Impact and The Space to Launch, work together to elaborate on these project and business ideas. During each spring semester, Impact and Launch students engage in the Impact and Launch Competition, a Shark Tank styled competition where ten students--five from Impact and five from Launch--pitch their project or business ideas to a panel of judges and investors. The winners of the event (one from Impact and one from Launch) receive various prizes, such as capital, networking contacts, and office space, in order to help them in their endeavours.

The Leadership Circle at Wofford College is also trying to make more available the tools that are necessary for innovation. Cole McCarty is working with The SPACE to develop a Makerspace, which students (and faculty) will be able to use for prototyping, design, and 3D modeling. The Makerspace would have such equipment as a 3D printer, which Wofford already has, lazer cutters, computers equiped with modelling software, and more.

Below is a description of The SPACE mentioned above, which is the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship encouragement at Wofford.

== <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE ==

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

=== The Space to Prepare ===

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

=== The Space to Impact ===

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

=== The Space to Launch ===

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

=== The Space to Consult ===

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

=== The Space to Explore ===

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

= Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function =

This is an area where Wofford may need to improve. Because we are a very small college with a limited amount of resources compared to a large university, a central office that focuses specifically as a central point for students, faculty, alumni, investors, and the industries to come together, may not be something that we need per say. Wofford has The Space which does much of this already. An advantage of being a small school is that all of our students have the opportunity to work with faculty and alumni and to network with potential investors within their respective industries. This isn't to say that we can't improve upon our system with how we are able to build bridges between all of our resources, but instead tailor it to our specfic size and community at Wofford. 

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

= Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts =

== Freshman Serivice Projects ==

Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their first semester at the college. In doing so, they instill in the incoming students the notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and focuses largely on service and giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, but has focused on recently on mass packing and shipping of food packages to countries in need.

== On-Campus Service Organizations and Student Led Projects ==

Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for service in the community. Philip Haabib, a freshman, has a project in which he works with down-on-their-luck citizens in the community and helps push them through classes at a community college and allows them to find jobs. 

== ==

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T22:42:09Z

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== <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE ==

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

=== The Space to Prepare ===

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

=== The Space to Impact ===

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

=== The Space to Launch ===

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

=== The Space to Consult ===

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

=== The Space to Explore ===

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

= Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts =

== Freshman Serivice Projects ==

Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their first semester at the college. In doing so, they instill in the incoming students the notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and focuses largely on service and giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, but has focused on recently on mass packing and shipping of food packages to countries in need

== On-Campus Service Organizations and Student Led Projects ==

Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for service in the community. Philip Haabib, a freshman, has a project in which he works with down-on-their-luck citizens in the community and helps push them through classes at a community college and allows them to find jobs. 

== ==

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

School:Wofford College

2015-02-15T22:39:30Z

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= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE =

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

== The Space to Prepare ==

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

== The Space to Impact ==

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

== The Space to Launch ==

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

== The Space to Consult ==

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

== The Space to Explore ==

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

= Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts =

== Freshman Serivice Projects ==

Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their first semester at the college. In doing so, they instill in the incoming students the notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and focuses largely on service and giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, but has focused on recently on mass packing and shipping of food packages to countries in need

== On-Campus Service Organizations and Student Led Projects ==

Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for service in the community. Philip Haabib, a freshman, has a project 

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

School:Wofford College

2015-02-14T18:01:16Z

Fieldsjr1:

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE =

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.

== The Space to Prepare ==

The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.

The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.

The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Technology proficiency</li>
<li>Presentation skills</li>
<li>Teamwork skills</li>
<li>Design thinking</li>
<li>Time management</li>
<li>Negotiation</li>
<li>Leadership tactics</li>
</ul>

== The Space to Impact ==

The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.

== The Space to Launch ==

The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.

== The Space to Consult ==

In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.

== The Space to Explore ==

The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute. 

= <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning =

The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.

Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.

CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.

== Institutional Research and Assessment ==

 The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.

== Wofford College's Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yu4ZPFzLLjOkzd3Bkeu6m083WWsGy4-GXup8FSfUslQ/edit#gid=5]

= Related Links =

[http://www.wofford.edu/thespace/ The Space]

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

Priorities:Wofford College Student Priorities

2015-01-30T15:19:22Z

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Wofford College Student Priorities

Overview

Text



Strategy 1: Increase student access to innovation and entrepreneurship resources

== Tactic 1: Alumni Network/ Terrier Link ==

== Tactic 2: Business Major/Entrepreneurship Major/Classes ==

== Tactic 3: Makerspace ==



Strategy 2: Enhance the atmosphere of entrepreneurship on campus

== Tactic 1: TEDx Event ==


<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Description- A TEDx event for Wofford College (TEDxWoffordCollege, TEDxWofford, etc.) that will be centered around innovation and entrepreneurship topics. Among these topics should be recognising a need, product design, design thinking, risk taking, startup management, and other topics that are central to entrepreneurship and innovation. The event will be held in the fall of 2015, as the event will require at least five months to plan and get off the ground, as estimated by TED.
</li>
<li>
Team Leader: Richard Fields
</li>
<li>
Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Meet with the necessary faculty/students to be able to put on the event (activities coordinators, marketing faculty, among others) 2/13/15
</li>
<li>
Set a tentative date for the TEDx event, and start gathering names of and contacting potential speakers 3/6/15
</li>
<li>
Apply to TED for a license to coordinate a TEDx event (their response requires at least eight weeks) 3/6/15
</li>
<li>
Begin preliminary advertising (very basic) for the event 4/1/15
</li>
<li>
Hear back from TED with positive approval to host a TEDx event 5/15/15
</li>
<li>
Have a set date for the TEDx conference 6/12/15
</li>
<li>
Have a complete list of speakers for the conference 6/12/15
</li>
<li>
Begin the main advertising campaign for the event 8/1/15
</li>
<li>
Start discussing a follow up TEDx event with Wofford faculty (start discussions in September or October)
</li>
<li>
Hold the TEDx conference at Wofford College (sometime in September, October or November)
</li>
<li>
Start planning the next TEDx event (to be held in Spring 2016)
</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

The last milestone will be brought backwards given necessary circumstances. I intend to hold the second conference in the spring of 2016 if possible. I plan for TEDx events to become a regular (each semester, or each year) event at Wofford. Also, we are hoping that the first of our TEDx events (fall 2015) will act as a springboard to help us raise interest in and conduct a startup weekend at Wofford College.

== Tactic 2: Startup Weekend ==


<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Description- There is a group in Spartanburg (where Wofford is located) that conducts a startup weekend each year. However, this never reaches Wofford students. We want to conduct a startup weekend on Wofford’s campus in order to achieve maximum student involvement.
</li>
<li>
Team Leader: Undecided
</li>
<li>
Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Begin coordinating the startup weekend with faculty and local professionals (spring 2015)
</li>
<li>
Hold the startup event (sometime after the aforementioned TEDx event)
</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

The description of our intentions and the milestones set forth are very vague because we have yet to select a leader for the project--our Leadership Circle members all currently have other projects. Even so, someone will likely pick up this project, as we find it important. The startup weekend will follow from the TEDx event, and we plan to use them both to effectively cultivate the entrepreneurship environment.
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Hello, I'm Richard Fields, a sophomore attending Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. I am majoring in Mathematics, Finance, and Accounting, and I plan on entering business school upon graduating in 2017. At Wofford, I serve on the James Fund, Wofford's student-managed endowment investment team, and I am a member of The Space to Impact, a program which, in part, led me to apply to University Innovation Fellows. I also play club lacrosse for Wofford. Above all, my favorite hobby is to play guitar, and second to that is the reading of classical American literature.

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Hello, I'm Richard Fields, a sophomore attending Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. I am majoring in Mathematics, Finance, and Accounting, and I plan on entering business school upon graduating in 2017. At Wofford, I serve on the James Fund, Wofford's student-managed endowment investment team, and I am a member of The Space to Impact, a program which, in part, led me to apply to University Innovation Fellows. I also play club lacrosse for Wofford. Above all, my favorite hobby is to play guitar, and second to that is the reading of classical American literature.

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