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2022-10-04T00:34:48Z

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Priorities:Marshall University Student Priorities

2022-09-27T00:48:19Z

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=Student Priorities=

==2022 Cohort==

===Strategy #1: Spreading Innovation to Students and organizations ===
At Marshall university many organizations struggle with getting involvement amongst other things. We would like to provide a Design thinking workshop to organizations on campus that are struggling. Those who take the workshop will receive one-on-one guidance from a student innovation ambassador, personalized workshop for your organization, training on how to solve problems to improve their organization. In the workshop we plan to cover deep customer empathy, broad-to-narrow thinking on ideas, and rapid experiments. For deep customer empathy we will ask club members to talk to other students about how attending their events made them feel and why they did not want to come back or why they did not want to join to begin with. We will then ask club members to take what they learned from talking to others to form an idea or series of ideas and narrow them down to one by lastly engaging in rapid experimentation to get ideas from others about their new idea to then move forward and improve upon it. At the end of the whole process, we will offer the club members who participated to become an innovation fellow. Therefore, every single student/organization on campus can make a difference for the Marshall Community.

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==2019 Cohort==

===Strategy #1: Introducing Entrepreneurship to Everyone===
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Marshall University, First Year Seminar is a required class that every student must take, normally in their first semester. This is a critical thinking course designed to teach lifelong learning through critical, integrative, intercultural, inquiry based, and metacognitive thinking. The goal of this class is to start practicing using the tools and skills that any college graduate will need in work and life.

Many students believe that if they are business majors, they do not need to be introduced to Entrepreneurship or Innovation. Our first strategy is to include Design Thinking into every First Year Seminar. Therefore, every single student can use innovation and entrepreneurship in their everyday life, regardless of their major. This can lead to students focusing on the impact and as a result, making a difference in the community.

==='''Strategy #2: Pre-seed Funding for Entreprenurial Students'''===
<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;">Marshall University’s Entrepreneurship program focuses on innovative solutions for big problems. Our university successfully inspires creativity and innovation in entrepreneurial students, yet students struggle with finding financial funding to begin their startup. Our second strategy is called Startup Marshall, which is a way for Entrepreneurship students to create their own pre-seed fund and grow their funds through alumni donations. 

<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;">Startup Marshall is an optional program for Entrepreneurship students. Each semester, students who opt-in the program, are accessed a $250 fee each semester. This fee funds into an account that the entrepreneurship major can use for the development of their startup during college and after they graduate. By opening an account, alumni can view a student’s profile. The profile indicates the student’s major, passions, skills, and interests. Alumni can then donate to student accounts. This strategy is an effort to increase the startup culture at Marshall University and ensure that students have the funds to start their own businesses. 

<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;">Kelly Leonard will lead this project but will need the assistance of fellow students, McKenna Sunderland and Annika Benke. 

==='''''Strategy #3: ''Increasing accesiblity to iCenter'''===
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Marshall University has an entrepreneurship major and minor that only business students can access. Entrepreneurial students, whether they be engineers, designers, manufacturers, do not have access to I&E mentoring and coaching. To help bridge this gap, Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business opened the iCenter. The iCenter is an innovation center that any student or community member can receive design thinking workshops and help with their startup. 

Currently, the iCenter is renovating spaces in the business hall. The iCenter, however, does not have open office hours for those seeking help with their businesses. Our priority is to open visiting hours and create ways to make the iCenter accessible for everyone. We want to create online workshops so students and community members can access them at any time.

===Strategy #4: Small Business Crawl===
<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;">All great ideas start with a spark. While Marshall University is beginning to get the resources that it needs to allow students to pursue these ideas, we must also provide the inspiration. Entrepreneurs come from a variety of different backgrounds, and we want to encourage all of Marshall’s students, regardless of their major, to incorporate entrepreneurship into their lives, too!

<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;">Our fourth strategy, the Small Business Crawl, invites students to spend the evening visiting several different local small businesses. At each visit, they will learn the story of how the business began, challenges that they’ve faced, and ways that they’ve solved problems. Not only will this help to spark students’ imaginations, it will also help to provide them with contacts in the community that they can reach out to should they need assistance. In this way, we can work to create more local businesses in our area, and further both intellectual and economic growth.

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'''Marshall University Student Priorities'''

2019 Fellows:

[[Kelly leonard|Kelly Leonard]]

[[Annika Behnke|Annika Behnke]]

[[McKenna Sunderland|McKenna Sunderland]]
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School:Marshall University

2022-09-20T01:20:17Z

Isabelhorter02:

<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OVERVIEW

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship

<span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;">Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia. With new leadership on campus, including President Brad D. Smith, the future for innovation and entrepreneurship is bright. Marshall University would like its students to create the next Uber or Facebook, but understand that they first must teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and innovation. Within the last 7 years, Marshall University has created an Entrepreneurship major and minor offered through the Lewis College of Business. In 2018, Marshall University's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (iCenter) was created. The iCenter serves as a maker space where students, faculty, and community members are able to prototype and start their own podcasts. The iCenter has four Entrepreneurs in Residence that serve as mentors for any student at Marshall. The Brad D. Smith Incubator class, which has operated since 2021, allows students to start a business while receiving mentorship along the way. A organization on campus that helps promote entreprenuership is Delta Sigma Pi, which is a coed business fraternity that supports growth in leadership and getting hands on experience in various fields of business. At Marshall University, students have the unique opportunity to be apart of the change occurring on campus and in Huntington. While we may still be establishing our entrepreneurial and innovative efforts, we are creative and scrappy, and most importantly, we are Marshall!

Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship<span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;"> 

<span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;">In September 2019, former Intuit and Marshall alum, Brad Smith, hosted a workshop for the Lewis College of Business faculty. The faculty, although not involved in the entrepreneurship program, learned about innovation, design thinking, and inspiring their students. The faculty was given the challenge to teach their students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative despite their functional area. To support faculty innovation and entrepreneurship, Marshall University also provides access to Center for Business and Economic Research <span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;">and Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research under the Marshall University Research Corporation. These centers can provide faculty with funding for their entrepreneurial pursuits and research. In addition, Marshall University faculty has access to the iC<span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;">enter which provides design thinking workshops, prototyping materials, and a collaboration space. The iCenter works with departments across campus to create innovation catalysts in hopes of further spreading innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Actively supporting the university technology transfer function

<span style="font-size: 12pt; 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;">Each year at Marshall University, faculty, staff, and students create innovative products and services. These products and services have the potential to be profitable, and the Technology Transfer Office helps support these endeavors. The Technology Transfer Office provides a variety of services including facilitating the invention disclosure process, obtaining IP protection documents, product and service marketing, and creating connections to industry partners. 

Facilitating university-industry collaboration

Marshall University is making great strides to facilitate industry-collaboration. Currently, Marshall University offers an internship program with Amazon and an apprenticeship program in manufacturing and design through the Robert C Byrd Institute. These apprenticeships are available for both engineering and business students, and allow students to work with real business and gain experience in the field. These opportunities connect students to their areas of interest and industry. In addition, the Huntington community offers students access to 3 industrial and makers’ spaces through the Robert C. Byrd Institute. Through the Office of Career Education, career fairs and expos are offered throughout the year for all students, as well as specific expos for different fields, i.e. STEM and business internship and job opportunities.

Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts

There are 3 regional sources of capital that Marshall University students can utilize. The first is the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), where students can connect with sources of funding. The second is the West Virginia Capital Access Program, which is offered by West Virginia Job Investment Trust Board and provides funding to entrepreneurs. The mission of this program is to improve the West Virginia economy through the creation of businesses. The third source of funding is StartUp West Virginia Venture, offered by TechConnectWV. StartUp West Virginia Venture funds technology innovators with the hope that they will help to advance the West Virginian economy. In addition, students seeking access to entrepreneurship and innovation mentorship can seek workshops and coaching by three different firms in Huntington. Another organization that works with the Huntington community is Coalfield Development Corporation, which strives to improve Appalachia and provides opportunities for the area and for students.



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[[Marshall_University|Marshall University]]

[[Marshall_University_Student_Priorities|Marshall University Student Priorities]]
<div>2019 Fellows:</div><div>[[Kelly_leonard|Kelly Leonard]]</div><div> </div><div>[[Annika_Behnke|Annika Behnke]]</div><div> </div><div>[[McKenna_Sunderland|McKenna Sunderland]]</div>
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2022-09-09T01:29:12Z

Isabelhorter02 (talk | contribs) commented on "Isabel" (I thought it was amazing how each team came up with different solutions to the same problem. I thought it was even more cool that some of...)

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Isabelhorter02: Created page with "I think that it is having organizations like these is a step in the right direction. This is because the betterment of society is needed now more than ever and if that helps b..."

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2022-08-26T18:42:52Z

Isabelhorter02 (talk | contribs) commented on "Isabel's Why" (I noticed how the town I am from Charles town had a lot of promise but was not cultivating the potential it had. For example there were p...)

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2022-08-24T21:12:50Z

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==Bio==
Isabel Horter, is a sophomore at Marshall university. She is majoring in business marketing and minoring in hospitality management. She is from Charles town, West Virginia and was born in Dover, Delaware. She is apart of the Campus activities board at Marshall and is the president of the coed business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi. Her goals are to either become apart of a marketing team at a well known business/ brand or become a manager of her own hotel. Her expected graduation date is 2025. She is passionate about building up the Huntington and Marshall community and making it a better place to cultivate innovative ideas.

==Achievements==
Current president of Delta sigma pi and past vice president of recruitment. Has gotten an overall 3.8 GPA in college so far and was on the deans list last semester.

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2022-08-24T01:06:08Z

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==Bio==
Isabel Horter, is a sophomore at Marshall university. She is majoring in business marketing and minoring in hospitality management. She is from Charlestown, West Virginia and was born in Dover, Delaware. She is apart of the Campus activities board at Marshall and is the president of the coed business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi. Her goals are to either become apart of a marketing team at a well known business/ brand or become a manager of her own hotel. Her expected graduation date is 2025. She is passionate about building up the Huntington and Marshall community and making it a better place to cultivate innovative ideas.

==Achievements==
Current president of Delta sigma pi and past vice president of recruitment. Has gotten an overall 3.8 GPA in college so far and was on the deans list last semester.

==Social media profiles==
Instagram: Isabelhorter02
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-horter-b0a8b322b

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2022-08-24T01:04:26Z

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==Bio==
Isabel Horter, is a sophomore at Marshall university. She is majoring in business marketing and minoring in hospitality management. She is from Charlestown, West Virginia and was born in Dover, Delaware. She is apart of the Campus activities board at Marshall and is the president of the coed business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi. Her goals are to either become apart of a marketing team at a well known business/ brand or become a manager of her own hotel. Her expected graduation date is 2025. She is passionate about building up the Huntington and Marshall community and making it a better place cultivate innovative ideas.

==Achievements==
Current president of Delta sigma pi and past vice president of recruitment. Has gotten an overall 3.8 GPA in college so far and was on the deans list last semester.

==Social media profiles==
Instagram: Isabelhorter02
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-horter-b0a8b322b

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