University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Alex Santarelli

2018-02-22T17:50:44Z

Grantversfeld:

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'''My passion is impacting others through tech, design, music, and fun.'''

A little about me:

My father passed away when I was six years old. What I learned from him passing was that I want to defy the odds and people's expectations. I want to change the world and I have a certain force in me that never stops. This force has allowed me to pursue my passion of impacting people through technology by learning to create iOS apps. I have created eight apps to date, ranging from a social network for music, education apps using iBeacons, and a running calculator. My passion has also fueled my interest in meeting new people, traveling to the west, and to start taking those first steps in impacting people's lives. I cannot wait to work and meet you to see all the amazing ideas we have and things we will create.

= Related Links =

=== Main Campus Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

=== Student Priorities Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Christopher_Tiffin Christopher Tiffin]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds]

Fellow:Emily Cebulski

2018-02-22T17:50:32Z

Grantversfeld:

Emily Cebulski  is a University Innovation Fellow candidate and an undergraduate student studying Statistics and Finance at [[File:Emily Cebulski.jpeg|thumb|Emily Cebulski.jpeg]]Loyola University Maryland. Her focuses include Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics, and she is actively preparing for her preliminary actuarial exams. Emily is originally from Reading, PA, where she lived until she moved to Baltimore, MD to pursue her degrees Loyola. After becoming involved with the Mathematics and Statistics club on campus, Emily was notified about the opportunity to become involved with the University Innovation Fellows Program. She is excited incorporate her interest in math with what she learns through this program to help cultivate innovative ideas and solutions at her campus.

From a very young age, Emily has been fascinated by numbers and their practical applications to many aspects of life. She enjoys solving puzzles and problems that come to her attention through innovative resources and unconventional solutions that might not be identifiable upon quick thought. When not at school, Emily can be found reading a good book, baking desserts of any kind, or going for a long run on the trails around her house.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

= Related Links =

=== Main Campus Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

=== Student Priorities Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Christopher_Tiffin Christopher Tiffin]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds]

Fellow:Chris Carangelo

2018-02-22T17:50:13Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Portrait Chris Carangelo .jpg]]
Currently a rising sophomore at Loyola University Maryland studying mechanical and materials engineering. I spend my free time researching new technology, and tinkering with ideas of inventions. I am passionate in creating things with my hands, so I build things in my dorm such as DIY machine tools, and gadgets. I am currently printing a 3D printer with my own Davinci XYZ Printer, and powering it with an Arduino Mega. In the past I have built computer, drones, etc. I am currently looking for a hands on internship that will allow me to create, learn, and grow in the fields of science or engineering.

= Related Links =

=== Main Campus Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

=== Student Priorities Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Christopher_Tiffin Christopher Tiffin]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds]

Fellow:Chris Carangelo

2018-02-22T17:41:35Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Portrait Chris Carangelo .jpg]]
Currently a rising sophomore at Loyola University Maryland studying mechanical and materials engineering. I spend my free time researching new technology, and tinkering with ideas of inventions. I am passionate in creating things with my hands, so I build things in my dorm such as DIY machine tools, and gadgets. I am currently printing a 3D printer with my own Davinci XYZ Printer, and powering it with an Arduino Mega. In the past I have built computer, drones, etc. I am currently looking for a hands on internship that will allow me to create, learn, and grow in the fields of science or engineering.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Chris Carangelo

2018-02-22T17:40:55Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Portrait Chris Carangelo .jpg]]Currently a rising sophomore at Loyola University Maryland studying mechanical and materials engineering. I spend my free time researching new technology, and tinkering with ideas of inventions. I am passionate in creating things with my hands, so I build things in my dorm such as DIY machine tools, and gadgets. I am currently printing a 3D printer with my own Davinci XYZ Printer, and powering it with an Arduino Mega. In the past I have built computer, drones, etc. I am currently looking for a hands on internship that will allow me to create, learn, and grow in the fields of science or engineering.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-22T17:27:36Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview =

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.
 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening. 
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort

== Strategy #1: Increase Student Interaction with Baltimore Community ==

=== Transportation ===

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.

*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

== Strategy #2: Streamline Technology Resources for Students ==

=== Loyola App ===

*Create a centralized, mobile-optimized application for students to access necessary tech offerings on the go.

*Provide students with up-to-date push notifications about current campus activities/events/warnings.

*Work with Tech Services to build app on top of current systems, rather than require the rebuilding of them.

== Strategy #3: Create a Unified Repository for all I&E programs on Campus ==

=== Innovation Website ===

*Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help.

*Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.

== Strategy #4: Give Students the Oppourtunity to Disseminate Information With Each Other ==

=== Content Initiative ===

*Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus.

*Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.

*Encourage communication between SGA and these officies to optomize information disemmination.

== Strategy #5: Promote Community Service to Help Students Better Embody Loyola's Jesuit Mission ==

=== Promote Awareness of Events ===

*One common suggestion during prototyping was that students often were unaware of the short-term oppourtunities offered by CCSJ and Campus Ministry. Although there is a "Community Service Event Fair" at the start of each semester, students said they often found it hard to find such oppourtunites if they did not sign up for any at the fair. Alongside Strategies 3 and 4, we would like to help complie the oppourtunities from CCSJ and Campus Ministry to help students find oppourtunites they are looking for.

=== Greater Flexibility in Messina Service-Learning ===

*Some First Year "Messina" courses offer service-learning components that students can join to supplement their education. Some students raised the concern that only giving students one week (at the start of the semester) may prevent students from sufficiently weighing their options in joining this aspect of the course. We would like to help First Years better understand the benefits of signing up for a Service-Learning course so that more students join these benefical oppourtunities.
*Students in Loyola's Honors program do not take the 100-level courses which are most likely to offer Service-Learning components to First Year students. Although some of the Honors Messina courses to participate in their own service trips, giving students - and not just those in the Honors program - who are not in designated Service-Learning courses a chance to join actual Service-Learning courses' trips may also increase participation in such events.

= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills ==

=== Student-led Consulting Firm ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

== Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY ==

=== Repair Cafe ===

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

=== Pitch Competition ===

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

=== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ===

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS ==

=== Design Space ===

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

== Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines ==

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

== Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus ==

=== Pop-Up Classes ===

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

= Related Links =

=== Main Campus Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-22T17:27:25Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview =

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.
 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening. 
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort

== Strategy #1: Increase Student Interaction with Baltimore Community ==

=== Transportation ===

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.

*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

== Strategy #2: Streamline Technology Resources for Students ==

=== Loyola App ===

*Create a centralized, mobile-optimized application for students to access necessary tech offerings on the go.

*Provide students with up-to-date push notifications about current campus activities/events/warnings.

*Work with Tech Services to build app on top of current systems, rather than require the rebuilding of them.

== Strategy #3: Create a Unified Repository for all I&E programs on Campus ==

=== Innovation Website ===

*Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help.

*Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.

== Strategy #4: Give Students the Oppourtunity to Disseminate Information With Each Other ==

=== Content Initiative ===

*Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus.

*Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.

*Encourage communication between SGA and these officies to optomize information disemmination.

== Strategy #5: Promote Community Service to Help Students Better Embody Loyola's Jesuit Mission ==

=== Promote Awareness of Events ===

*One common suggestion during prototyping was that students often were unaware of the short-term oppourtunities offered by CCSJ and Campus Ministry. Although there is a "Community Service Event Fair" at the start of each semester, students said they often found it hard to find such oppourtunites if they did not sign up for any at the fair. Alongside Strategies 3 and 4, we would like to help complie the oppourtunities from CCSJ and Campus Ministry to help students find oppourtunites they are looking for.

=== Greater Flexibility in Messina Service-Learning ===

*Some First Year "Messina" courses offer service-learning components that students can join to supplement their education. Some students raised the concern that only giving students one week (at the start of the semester) may prevent students from sufficiently weighing their options in joining this aspect of the course. We would like to help First Years better understand the benefits of signing up for a Service-Learning course so that more students join these benefical oppourtunities.
*Students in Loyola's Honors program do not take the 100-level courses which are most likely to offer Service-Learning components to First Year students. Although some of the Honors Messina courses to participate in their own service trips, giving students - and not just those in the Honors program - who are not in designated Service-Learning courses a chance to join actual Service-Learning courses' trips may also increase participation in such events.

= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills ==

=== Student-led Consulting Firm ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

== Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY ==

=== Repair Cafe ===

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

=== Pitch Competition ===

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

=== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ===

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS ==

=== Design Space ===

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

== Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines ==

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

== Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus ==

=== Pop-Up Classes ===

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

= Related Links =

= Related Links =

=== Main Campus Page ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-22T17:26:06Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview =

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.
 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening. 
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort

== Strategy #1: Increase Student Interaction with Baltimore Community ==

=== Transportation ===

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.

*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

== Strategy #2: Streamline Technology Resources for Students ==

=== Loyola App ===

*Create a centralized, mobile-optimized application for students to access necessary tech offerings on the go.

*Provide students with up-to-date push notifications about current campus activities/events/warnings.

*Work with Tech Services to build app on top of current systems, rather than require the rebuilding of them.

== Strategy #3: Create a Unified Repository for all I&E programs on Campus ==

=== Innovation Website ===

*Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help.

*Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.

== Strategy #4: Give Students the Oppourtunity to Disseminate Information With Each Other ==

=== Content Initiative ===

*Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus.

*Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.

*Encourage communication between SGA and these officies to optomize information disemmination.

== Strategy #5: Promote Community Service to Help Students Better Embody Loyola's Jesuit Mission ==

=== Promote Awareness of Events ===

*One common suggestion during prototyping was that students often were unaware of the short-term oppourtunities offered by CCSJ and Campus Ministry. Although there is a "Community Service Event Fair" at the start of each semester, students said they often found it hard to find such oppourtunites if they did not sign up for any at the fair. Alongside Strategies 3 and 4, we would like to help complie the oppourtunities from CCSJ and Campus Ministry to help students find oppourtunites they are looking for.

=== Greater Flexibility in Messina Service-Learning ===

*Some First Year "Messina" courses offer service-learning components that students can join to supplement their education. Some students raised the concern that only giving students one week (at the start of the semester) may prevent students from sufficiently weighing their options in joining this aspect of the course. We would like to help First Years better understand the benefits of signing up for a Service-Learning course so that more students join these benefical oppourtunities.
*Students in Loyola's Honors program do not take the 100-level courses which are most likely to offer Service-Learning components to First Year students. Although some of the Honors Messina courses to participate in their own service trips, giving students - and not just those in the Honors program - who are not in designated Service-Learning courses a chance to join actual Service-Learning courses' trips may also increase participation in such events.

= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills ==

=== Student-led Consulting Firm ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

== Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY ==

=== Repair Cafe ===

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

=== Pitch Competition ===

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

=== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ===

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS ==

=== Design Space ===

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

== Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines ==

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

== Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus ==

=== Pop-Up Classes ===

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

= Related Links =

== Main Campus Page: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

== Spring 2018 Fellows: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

== Spring 2017 Fellows: ==

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-22T17:25:29Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview =

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.
 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening. 
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus.

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort

== Strategy #1: Increase Student Interaction with Baltimore Community ==

=== Transportation ===

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.

*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

== Strategy #2: Streamline Technology Resources for Students ==

=== Loyola App ===

*Create a centralized, mobile-optimized application for students to access necessary tech offerings on the go.

*Provide students with up-to-date push notifications about current campus activities/events/warnings.

*Work with Tech Services to build app on top of current systems, rather than require the rebuilding of them.

== Strategy #3: Create a Unified Repository for all I&E programs on Campus ==

=== Innovation Website ===

*Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help.

*Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.

== Strategy #4: Give Students the Oppourtunity to Disseminate Information With Each Other ==

=== Content Initiative ===

*Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus.

*Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.

*Encourage communication between SGA and these officies to optomize information disemmination.

== Strategy #5: Promote Community Service to Help Students Better Embody Loyola's Jesuit Mission ==

=== Promote Awareness of Events ===

*One common suggestion during prototyping was that students often were unaware of the short-term oppourtunities offered by CCSJ and Campus Ministry. Although there is a "Community Service Event Fair" at the start of each semester, students said they often found it hard to find such oppourtunites if they did not sign up for any at the fair. Alongside Strategies 3 and 4, we would like to help complie the oppourtunities from CCSJ and Campus Ministry to help students find oppourtunites they are looking for.

=== Greater Flexibility in Messina Service-Learning ===

*Some First Year "Messina" courses offer service-learning components that students can join to supplement their education. Some students raised the concern that only giving students one week (at the start of the semester) may prevent students from sufficiently weighing their options in joining this aspect of the course. We would like to help First Years better understand the benefits of signing up for a Service-Learning course so that more students join these benefical oppourtunities.
*Students in Loyola's Honors program do not take the 100-level courses which are most likely to offer Service-Learning components to First Year students. Although some of the Honors Messina courses to participate in their own service trips, giving students - and not just those in the Honors program - who are not in designated Service-Learning courses a chance to join actual Service-Learning courses' trips may also increase participation in such events.

= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills ==

=== Student-led Consulting Firm ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

== Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY ==

=== Repair Cafe ===

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

=== Pitch Competition ===

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

=== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ===

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== ==

== STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS ==

=== Design Space ===

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

== Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines ==

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

== Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus ==

=== Pop-Up Classes ===

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

= Related Links =

== Main Campus Page: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

== Spring 2018 Fellows: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

== Spring 2017 Fellows: ==

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-22T17:24:35Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview =

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.
 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening. 
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus. <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort

== Strategy #1: Increase Student Interaction with Baltimore Community ==

=== Transportation ===

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.

*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

== Strategy #2: Streamline Technology Resources for Students ==

=== Loyola App ===

*
Create a centralized, mobile-optimized application for students to access necessary tech offerings on the go.

*
Provide students with up-to-date push notifications about current campus activities/events/warnings.

*
Work with Tech Services to build app on top of current systems, rather than require the rebuilding of them.

== Strategy #3: Create a Unified Repository for all I&E programs on Campus ==

=== Innovation Website ===

*
Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help. 

*
Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.

== Strategy #4: Give Students the Oppourtunity to Disseminate Information With Each Other ==

=== Content Initiative ===

*
Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus.

*
Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.

*
Encourage communication between SGA and these officies to optomize information disemmination.

== Strategy #5: Promote Community Service to Help Students Better Embody Loyola's Jesuit Mission ==

=== Promote Awareness of Events ===

*One common suggestion during prototyping was that students often were unaware of the short-term oppourtunities offered by CCSJ and Campus Ministry. Although there is a "Community Service Event Fair" at the start of each semester, students said they often found it hard to find such oppourtunites if they did not sign up for any at the fair. Alongside Strategies 3 and 4, we would like to help complie the oppourtunities from CCSJ and Campus Ministry to help students find oppourtunites they are looking for.

=== Greater Flexibility in Messina Service-Learning ===

*Some First Year "Messina" courses offer service-learning components that students can join to supplement their education. Some students raised the concern that only giving students one week (at the start of the semester) may prevent students from sufficiently weighing their options in joining this aspect of the course. We would like to help First Years better understand the benefits of signing up for a Service-Learning course so that more students join these benefical oppourtunities.
*Students in Loyola's Honors program do not take the 100-level courses which are most likely to offer Service-Learning components to First Year students. Although some of the Honors Messina courses to participate in their own service trips, giving students - and not just those in the Honors program - who are not in designated Service-Learning courses a chance to join actual Service-Learning courses' trips may also increase participation in such events.

= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills ==

=== Student-led Consulting Firm ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

== Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY ==

=== Repair Cafe ===

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

=== Pitch Competition ===

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

=== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ===

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== ==

== STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS ==

=== Design Space ===

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

== Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines ==

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

== Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus ==

=== Pop-Up Classes ===

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

= Related Links =

== Main Campus Page: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

== Spring 2018 Fellows: ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

== Spring 2017 Fellows: ==

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Fellow:Chris Carangelo

2018-02-22T15:57:09Z

Grantversfeld:

Currently a rising sophomore at Loyola University Maryland studying mechanical and materials engineering. I spend my free time researching new technology, and tinkering with ideas of inventions. I am passionate in creating things with my hands, so I build things in my dorm such as DIY machine tools, and gadgets. I am currently printing a 3D printer with my own Davinci XYZ Printer, and powering it with an Arduino Mega. In the past I have built computer, drones, etc. I am currently looking for a hands on internship that will allow me to create, learn, and grow in the fields of science or engineering.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Emily Cebulski

2018-02-22T15:57:01Z

Grantversfeld:

Emily Cebulski  is a University Innovation Fellow candidate and an undergraduate student studying Statistics and Finance at [[File:Emily Cebulski.jpeg|thumb|Emily Cebulski.jpeg]]Loyola University Maryland. Her focuses include Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics, and she is actively preparing for her preliminary actuarial exams. Emily is originally from Reading, PA, where she lived until she moved to Baltimore, MD to pursue her degrees Loyola. After becoming involved with the Mathematics and Statistics club on campus, Emily was notified about the opportunity to become involved with the University Innovation Fellows Program. She is excited incorporate her interest in math with what she learns through this program to help cultivate innovative ideas and solutions at her campus.

From a very young age, Emily has been fascinated by numbers and their practical applications to many aspects of life. She enjoys solving puzzles and problems that come to her attention through innovative resources and unconventional solutions that might not be identifiable upon quick thought. When not at school, Emily can be found reading a good book, baking desserts of any kind, or going for a long run on the trails around her house.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Alex Santarelli

2018-02-22T15:56:28Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:DSC07362 copy.jpg|thumb|DSC07362 copy.jpg]]

'''My passion is impacting others through tech, design, music, and fun.'''

A little about me:

My father passed away when I was six years old. What I learned from him passing was that I want to defy the odds and people's expectations. I want to change the world and I have a certain force in me that never stops. This force has allowed me to pursue my passion of impacting people through technology by learning to create iOS apps. I have created eight apps to date, ranging from a social network for music, education apps using iBeacons, and a running calculator. My passion has also fueled my interest in meeting new people, traveling to the west, and to start taking those first steps in impacting people's lives. I cannot wait to work and meet you to see all the amazing ideas we have and things we will create.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Alex Santarelli

2018-02-22T15:55:59Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:DSC07362 copy.jpg|thumb|DSC07362 copy.jpg]]

'''My passion is impacting others through tech, design, music, and fun.'''

A little about me:

My father passed away when I was six years old. What I learned from him passing was that I want to defy the odds and people's expectations. I want to change the world and I have a certain force in me that never stops. This force has allowed me to pursue my passion of impacting people through technology by learning to create iOS apps. I have created eight apps to date, ranging from a social network for music, education apps using iBeacons, and a running calculator. My passion has also fueled my interest in meeting new people, traveling to the west, and to start taking those first steps in impacting people's lives. I cannot wait to work and meet you to see all the amazing ideas we have and things we will create.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Emily Cebulski

2018-02-22T15:55:39Z

Grantversfeld:

Emily Cebulski  is a University Innovation Fellow candidate and an undergraduate student studying Statistics and Finance at [[File:Emily Cebulski.jpeg|thumb|Emily Cebulski.jpeg]]Loyola University Maryland. Her focuses include Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics, and she is actively preparing for her preliminary actuarial exams. Emily is originally from Reading, PA, where she lived until she moved to Baltimore, MD to pursue her degrees Loyola. After becoming involved with the Mathematics and Statistics club on campus, Emily was notified about the opportunity to become involved with the University Innovation Fellows Program. She is excited incorporate her interest in math with what she learns through this program to help cultivate innovative ideas and solutions at her campus.

From a very young age, Emily has been fascinated by numbers and their practical applications to many aspects of life. She enjoys solving puzzles and problems that come to her attention through innovative resources and unconventional solutions that might not be identifiable upon quick thought. When not at school, Emily can be found reading a good book, baking desserts of any kind, or going for a long run on the trails around her house.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Fellow:Chris Carangelo

2018-02-22T15:55:14Z

Grantversfeld:

Currently a rising sophomore at Loyola University Maryland studying mechanical and materials engineering. I spend my free time researching new technology, and tinkering with ideas of inventions. I am passionate in creating things with my hands, so I build things in my dorm such as DIY machine tools, and gadgets. I am currently printing a 3D printer with my own Davinci XYZ Printer, and powering it with an Arduino Mega. In the past I have built computer, drones, etc. I am currently looking for a hands on internship that will allow me to create, learn, and grow in the fields of science or engineering.

= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-22T15:52:00Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvases'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

Click [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities here] to view our Student Priorities page, which briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Carangelo Chris Carangelo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

==== Spring 2017 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:57:20Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvases'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

Click [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities here] to view our Student Priorities page, which briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

==== Spring 2018 Fellows ====

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

==== Spring 2017 Fellows ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:56:58Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvases'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

Click [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities here] to view our Student Priorities page, which briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:55:57Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvases'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:55:30Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvases'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:55:12Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvas'' ==

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas ] ====

==== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ====

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-19T02:54:11Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>
== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Landscape Canvas'' ==

=== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o-IaG_CNM5tvBmMnE1xcjybU7i4u-XGsEpn-jXKZpY/edit?usp=sharing 2018 Landscape Canvas] ===
=== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 2017 Landscape Canvas] ===

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:55:11Z

Grantversfeld:

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:54:43Z

Grantversfeld:

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-02T03:16:34Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-02T03:16:11Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:12:27Z

Grantversfeld:

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:11:58Z

Grantversfeld:

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-02T03:05:23Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]] [[Emily Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]] Alex Santarelli [[Grant Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:02:57Z

Grantversfeld:

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T03:01:42Z

Grantversfeld:

Priorities:Loyola University Maryland Student Priorities

2018-02-02T02:58:57Z

Grantversfeld:

== Overview ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors.

= Spring 2018 Student Priorities =

= Strategy #1: INCREASE STUDENT INTERACTION WITH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY =

== Transportation: ==

*Convert some of the on-campus shuttles to have routes off-campus for the weekend so that students have a better opportunity to get into Baltimore and interact with the surrounding community.
*Shuttles will have routes to popular locations in and around Baltimore (Inner Harbor, Towson, Fells Point). Routes and destinations will vary, in response to the feedback from students.

= Strategy #2: =

= Strategy #3: =

= Strategy #4: =

= Strategy #5: =

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= Spring 2017 Student Priorities =

= Strategy #1: Increasing Cross-Discplinary Collaboration while Gaining Transferrable Skills =

== Student-led Consulting Firm ==
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">To maximize undergraduate experience and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, a group of student possessing technical skills and business acumen would provide business services to fellow students, faculty, and the greater Baltimore community.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The organizational structure of the business is as follows: Directors of Strategy, Technology, and Operations Under these three departments, there would lie associate and senior consultants.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">For individuals who would like to join the team, but lack the technical or business acumen for whatever reason, the on-boarding process will require a “how-to” module. As an additional revenue source, and to inspire high school students, this module will be provided at a premium fee.</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Based on the early success of the business, there is hope of expansion outside of state [Maryland] lines. Furthermore, to ensure fluid transfer of powers, there will always be a director-in-training</li>
<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Tenative launch date: Fall 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2 GENERATING INTEREST FROM THE STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY =

== Repair Cafe ==

*The space provides a low risk environment for students to gain basic knowledge of tools and innovation processes. The space will curate a basis for the I&E platform to take off on campus.
*This is a space/event that will take place on a monthly, bi-monthly, or semester basis
*In two to three weeks funding for the first event should be discussed and the idea should be presented to the appropriate deans and stakeholders.
*By March 15, 2017 the date for the first Repair Cafe event should be picked and participants from the greater Baltimore area should be contacted.

== Pitch Competition ==

*Running in through the Sellinger School of Business
*Name: "Building a Better World Through Business"
*Date: Late March 2017

== TedX/ Smaller Speaker Series ==

*In order to spark inspiration and passion in Loyola's undergraduate population we will setup an annual TedX event on Loyola's campus
**An appliaction for TedX license has been submitted and another should be submitted as soon as possible
*However, creating TedX events often take many months.  In the meantime we would like to set up a smaller speaker series at various locations around campus.
**By the end of February the first date and location for the speaker series should be chosen
**The first speaker should be contacted (can be Baltimore professional, teacher, or student) by mid-March.
**PechaKucha event may also be considered

== ==

= STRATEGY #3 CREATE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE TO GIVE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO PROTOTYPE THEIR CREATIONS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS =

== Design Space ==

A design space would allow students to gather and share, collaborate, and inspire, and be inspired by meeting with peers to tinker with prototyping objects such as building blocks, post it notes, 3-D printers, and more. In order to establish this space there are some items of importance to consider and their target dates:

*Discussing possibility and opportunity with university administration (February 2017)
*Conduct further market research (May 2017)
*Settling on a location and creating a legitimate floor plan (May 2017)
*Begin renovations (Spring 2018)
*Renovations complete (September 2018)
*Facility opens to the student population (October 2018)

= Strategy #4 Promote entrepreneurial research projects by faculty - across all disciplines =

While this priority is largely above the UIF team, it is not completely out of reach to influence.  By making the I&E mission and environment more present on campus more faculty will become intrigued.  By creating a council of professors and faculty, from all disciplines, the UIF team will also get all the schools involved and spread the word.

= Strategy #5 Promote tech advancements and usage across campus =

== Pop-Up Classes ==

*In order to teach individuals more about specific technology and give them the tools to properly use it the UIF team will build off the already existing pop-up classes.
*The pop-up classes have already been held for 3D printing, resume building, and music editing technology.
*By the end of February a survey should be sent out to the Loyola community to discover what technology/ classes they are interested in.
*By the mid-March these statistics should be used to form the first student-promoted pop-up classes

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= Related Links =

==== Main Campus Page: ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland Loyola University Maryland]

==== Spring 2018 Fellows: ====

Chris Carangelo

[http://universityinnovation.org/Emily%20Cebulski Emily Cebulski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Santarelli Alex Santarelli]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Grant%20Versfeld Grant Versfeld]

==== Spring 2017 Fellows: ====

[[Meghan Reynolds|Meghan Reynolds]]

[[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]]

[[Eric Muchisky|Eric Muchisky]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-02T02:54:52Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we strive to benefit students across disciplines and majors. Current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

STRATEGY #1- Innovation Website 

Our idea is to create an easy to use website using squarespace that will organize all of the out of school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.) The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. The idea from students as well as several faculty was generally well received many of which were more than willing to help.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What worked: The concept behind our website was highly well received, but all of the people we showed it to.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What could be improved: Our strategy for how we are going to organize, and create a website from scratch that is easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and has all of the information that we need it to have. Formulating a tight schedule for milestones will hopefully keep us on track and moving at a steady pace.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New ideas: Impressing Loyola’s president so much that he requires the companies running our schools main student sites to make changes, to match our standards of functionality.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Questions: What else should we consider when making this website? Are there other forms of resources that students want to see implemented?

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]] [[Emily Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]] Alex Santarelli [[Grant Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-02-02T02:54:19Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. With multiple cohorts of University Innovation Fellows campus, we are excited and motivated to improve these aspects of our campus. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources, we will benefit students across disciplines and majors. The current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

STRATEGY #1- Innovation Website 

Our idea is to create an easy to use website using squarespace that will organize all of the out of school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.) The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. The idea from students as well as several faculty was generally well received many of which were more than willing to help.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What worked: The concept behind our website was highly well received, but all of the people we showed it to.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What could be improved: Our strategy for how we are going to organize, and create a website from scratch that is easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and has all of the information that we need it to have. Formulating a tight schedule for milestones will hopefully keep us on track and moving at a steady pace.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New ideas: Impressing Loyola’s president so much that he requires the companies running our schools main student sites to make changes, to match our standards of functionality.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Questions: What else should we consider when making this website? Are there other forms of resources that students want to see implemented?

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]] [[Emily Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]] Alex Santarelli [[Grant Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-01-24T02:06:10Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. As the first group of University Innovation Fellows on the campus we are excited and motivated to change these aspects. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources would benefit students across disciplines and majors. The current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]] [[Emily Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]] Alex Santarelli [[Grant Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-01-24T02:05:05Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. As the first group of University Innovation Fellows on the campus we are excited and motivated to change these aspects. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources would benefit students across disciplines and majors. The current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]]
[[Emily Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]]
Alex Santarelli
[[Grant Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Loyola University Maryland

2018-01-24T02:04:53Z

Grantversfeld:

[[File:Loyola University Maryland Banner.jpg]]''Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.''

== ''Overview'' ==

Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852, is a liberal arts university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Evergreen campus is the main undergraduate campus. Surrounded by a diverse and booming environment the potential for innovation and creativity is high. However, as of present, the resources for such ventures on Loyola’s campus are limited. Creative space for design thinking, prototyping, and research is not established yet, except for limited lab space reserved for the engineering students. Some courses are offered in the entrepreneurship and innovation field but expansion and improvement is needed. As the first group of University Innovation Fellows on the campus we are excited and motivated to change these aspects. With many creative and inspired minds on campus these resources would benefit students across disciplines and majors. The current resources on campus are outlined below.

== ''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==
<div>Currently, Loyola does not offer a vast array of opportunities to dive into discovering, learning, and experimenting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Encouragement for students to pursue I&E needs to be strengthened. The current Fellows team is looking forward to improving this. We hope that with the support of people in the Loyola Community, we will change the attitude, atmosphere, and resources present for pursuing interest in I&E.</div><div> </div><div>The following list encompasses the majority of opportunities that Loyola offers to discover, learn, and experiment with I&E.</div><div> </div>
*2 Introduction to Engineering courses which aim to invoke interest in innovation
*A few courses in the Sellinger School of Business which aim to provide inspiration for global entrepreneurship and new product development
*A new course being offered across the Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science departments called Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship allows students to learn how they can cross their scientific paths into the business world
*Our new University Innovation Fellows team
*A new VEX Robotics club. It is open to anybody on campus and allows for multidisciplinary teamwork
*An Entrepreneurship Club which invites speakers to Loyola every so often to tell their personal success stories in entrepreneurship
*Senior Design/Capstone projects offered in various majors to encourage students to think and create before going into their fields.
*HAUBER Summer Research Program allows students to work alongside faculty several weeks throughout the summer on a particular area of research
<div> </div>

== ''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'' ==

The faculty at Loyola University Maryland also need greater encouragement to pursue I&E ventures in their research.  Before the professors are tenured their research is scientifically based, with papers and theses following.  Once the professor is tenured a contract is set in place for further research, but at present very few of these contracts lead to entrepreneurial research.  A trend is in place for more accountable and funded research.  However, until professors on Loyola’s campus are supported in innovation and creativity based studies, a key aspect of the I&E environment on campus will still be lacking.

== ''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'' ==

There is currently no tech transfer office or department set up on Loyola’s campus.  However, there is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  Through this department faculty gain research support and funding.  Additionally, students can contact this office to find funding for their research programs and aid in developing legal status (especially when outside corporations are involved).  However, this is the only such resource on campus and this field needs to be expanded in order to promote I&E.

== ''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'' ==

Within the general Baltimore area there are maker space’s such as “The Foundry”, located downtown, and various metallurgy and casting mills, located in the Mount Washington area, open for public use.  However, Loyola and these businesses/spaces have not yet formed any personal connections.  Such a relationship would be extremely beneficial for students on the campus looking for design space and materials.  More connections with mentors and networking in the area, especially with companies that encourage innovation, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, need to be made, as well.

== ''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'' ==

Given Loyola’s location within the city of Baltimore, one would assume that there would be strong ties to venture capital firms, start-up incubators, and startup associated services. Alas, that is not yet the case. The aforementioned firms have taken little interest in providing their services and guidance to students; but such connections may be able to form, if given the right support. Furthermore, as of right now, Loyola does not have the capability to harbor a small business development center for the surrounding community.

== ''Link to Loyola University Maryland's Landscape Canvas'' ==

View our landscape canvas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUQwWcsPi3qaM0B69f25YeUq20OoPK_cZsKabC6ZtFk/edit#gid=4 here].

== ''Student Priorities'' ==

This [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Maryland_Student_Priorities page] briefly explains our long term projects/goals for getting the I&E ball rolling on our campus.

== ''Contributors'' ==

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[[Crcarangelo|Chris Carangelo]]

[[Emily_Cebulski|Emily Cebulski]]

Alex Santarelli

[[Grant_Versfeld|Grant Versfeld]]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Reynolds Meghan Reynolds ][[Christopher Tiffin|Christopher Tiffin]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Eric_Muchisky Eric Muchisky ]

[[Category:Universities]]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-13T22:09:55Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that provide insight into entrepreneurial and innovative practices that can be useful to students interested in both business and global policy.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum provides students with many leaders to whom they can look up to in order to learn about leadership and innovation on a global scale. The Forum's videos and livestreams give students a chance to hear industry leaders discuss today's most important topics. By following the arguments made throughout the Bloomberg GBF, students will gain a greater look into the intersection of business and policy on a global scale. These resources, espically considering that they are from the most well known and powerful leaders of our age, are extremely helpful for budding innovators. The Forum is also a good place that students can aspire to be invited to speak at one day!

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

Tim Cook Talks Global Leadership

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

= Contributors =

Zoe De Bruycker: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Zoe_De_Bruycker http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Zoe_De_Bruycker]

Taylor Mau: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Mau http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Mau]

Grant Versfeld: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant_Versfeld http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant_Versfeld]

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= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that provide insight into entrepreneurial and innovative practices that can be useful to students interested in both business and global policy.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

Tim Cook Talks Global Leadership

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-11T03:09:24Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that provide insight into entrepreneurial and innovative practices that can be useful to students interested in either business or global policy.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

Tim Cook Talks Global Leadership

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-11T03:07:40Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that students can learn a lot from.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

Tim Cook Talks Global Leadership

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-11T03:07:31Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that students can learn a lot from.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

Tim Cook Talks Global Leadership
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-20/tim-cook-talks-global-leadership-video]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-11T03:05:59Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that students can learn a lot from.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

Emmanuel Macron on the New French Economy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5129e26dY]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

Organization:Bloomberg Global Business Forum

2018-01-11T03:01:56Z

Grantversfeld:

= Overview and Purpose =

The [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Global Business Forum] is a conference in New York City that brings together many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs to address some of the most critical questions facing the global economy. Some of the topics addressed in the forum are related to sustained job and economic growth, international trade and immigration policies, the climate change crisis, and reducing inequality while driving economic prosperity. The forum is held during UN General Assembly week, and participation is by invitation only. 

This conference builds on the success of Bloomberg's 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, and expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent. The purpose of the conference is to solve the most pressing challenges facing global leaders, which requires partnerships between government and business, as well as targeted investment in critical sectors and economies.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum is unique from other offerings because it is a gathering of the world's most influential leaders rather than an organization dedicated to assisting students and other entrepreneurers. Although it does not offer direct oppourtunites for students to be involved, it provides videos and livestreams from past and current Forums that students can learn a lot from.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Add text here...

= Videos =

Lebron James introduces Global Business Forum: 

[https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA https://youtu.be/U7cuQpJtZHA]

Jack Ma on Driving Economic Growth:

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/jack-ma-says-stop-looking-to-manufacturing-growth-for-jobs]

= Sponsors =

*Hyundai
*Mastercard
*Uptake

= Participating Countries =

Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Botswana, Republic of Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People’s Republic of China, Union of the Comoros, Republic of Croatia, Kingdom of Denmark, French Republic, Gabonese Republic, Republic of The Gambia, Georgia, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Haiti, Hungary, Republic of Iceland, Italian Republic, Hashemite, Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Latvia, Kingdom of Lesotho, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Malta, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, United Mexican States, Mongolia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Palau, Republic of Panama, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Singapore, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Saint Lucia, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Turkey, Tuvalu, Republic of Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Republic of Zambia

= 2017 Agenda & Speakers =

Opening:

*The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
*His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France
*Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Civic Leadership from CEOs; Challenges and Opportunities

*Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Perspective: How Financial Institutions Can Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity

*Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India 

The Prospects for Expanding Trade

*The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
*His Excellency Mr. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
*Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
*Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

View from Europe: The European Union in the Twenty-First Century

*The Honorable Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission

Perspective: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

*His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Why the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are Good for Business

*Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
*John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
*Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
*Arif Naqvi, Founder and CEO, The Abraaj Group
*Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Changing Landscape of Global Commerce

*The Honorable Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
*Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman, Ant Financial
*Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
*Zhang Xiaoqiang, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Executive Office and Legal representative of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

Morning Close

*Robert K. Steel, Partner and CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners 

View from Ankara: Security for a Region in Flux

*His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey 

Development, Investment and the Future of Energy in the Middle East

*His Excellency Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Chief Executive, Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Board, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO
*Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 

Climate Change, Mass Migration and Economic Transformations

*His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Republic of Gabon
*His Excellency Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission
*Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE 
*Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless 

Perspective: The Future of Global Cities

*Jean Liu, President, Didi Chuxing 

View from Rome: Global Challenges - a Holistic Approach

*His Excellency Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic 

How Technology is Disrupting Poverty, Energy and Health Care

*Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited
*Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
*Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
*Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Afternoon Close

*Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

= News about the Conference =

World Leaders Push More Inclusive Approach to Globalization:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/inaugural-global-business-forum-world-leaders-push-inclusive-approach-globalization/]

Heads of UN and World Bank announce initiative to ramp up finance for climate action:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/heads-un-world-bank-announce-initiative-ramp-finance-climate-action/]

More than 50 Heads of State and 250 International CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum:

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/president-emmanuel-macron-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-join-michael-r-bloomberg/]

Link to additional articles: [https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/news/]

= Sources =

[https://gbf.bloomberg.org/ https://gbf.bloomberg.org/]

User:Grantversfeld

2018-01-11T02:41:48Z

Grantversfeld:

= Grant Versfeld =

[[File:Grant_Versfeld_Picture.jpg|thumb|Grant_Versfeld_Picture.jpg]]

Grant Versfeld is studying Computer Science and Pre-Law at Loyola University Maryland. Grant is fascinated by the ethical implications of digital technology and plans to become a technologist specializing in Internet policy. He hopes to one day help solve the dilemmas, such as privacy, Artifical Intelligence safety, and ethical advertising, introduced by our increasingly connected society.

At Loyola, Grant is a member of the Honors program as well as the Cybersecurity club. He is also involved with Ad Honorem (the Honors student council) and was briefly a member of the Club Ultimate Frisbee team. He can often be found reading or hanging out with friends in the library.

Although he primarily studies Computer Science, Grant is avid reader and loves his humanities courses. He loves combining his love for technology with his love for english and history, and he enjoys projects that allow him to explore the people side of computing. Alongside his privacy and ethics interests, Grant hopes to make computers easier for everyone to understand.

User:Grantversfeld

2018-01-11T02:39:42Z

Grantversfeld:

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Grant Versfeld is studying Computer Science and Pre-Law at Loyola University Maryland. Grant is fascinated by the ethical implications of digital technology and plans to become a technologist specializing in Internet policy. He hopes to one day help solve the dilemmas, such as privacy, Artifical Intelligence safety, and ethical advertising, introduced by our increasingly connected society.

At Loyola, Grant is a member of the Honors program as well as the Cybersecurity club. He is also involved with Ad Honorem (the Honors student council) and was briefly a member of the Club Ultimate Frisbee team. He can often be found reading or hanging out with friends in the library.

Although he primarily studies Computer Science, Grant is avid reader and loves his humanities courses. He loves combining his love for technology with his love for english and history, and he enjoys projects that allow him to explore the people side of computing. Alongside his privacy and ethics interests, Grant hopes to make computers easier for everyone to understand.

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Grant Versfeld is studying Computer Science and Pre-Law at Loyola University Maryland. Grant is fascinated by the ethical implications of digital technology and plans to become a technologist specializing in Internet policy. He hopes to one day help solve the dilemmas, such as privacy, Artifical Intelligence safety, and ethical advertising, introduced by our increasingly connected society.

At Loyola, Grant is a member of the Honors program as well as the Cybersecurity club. He is also involved with Ad Honorem (the Honors student council) and was briefly a member of the Club Ultimate Frisbee team. He can often be found reading or hanging out with friends in the library.

Although he primarily studies Computer Science, Grant is avid reader and loves his humanities courses. He loves combining his love for technology with his love for english and history, and he enjoys projects that allow him to explore the people side of computing. Alongside his privacy and ethics interests, Grant hopes to make computers easier for everyone to understand.