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Priorities:Swarthmore College Student Priorities

2021-10-08T01:02:25Z

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At Swarthmore College, we have experienced an apparent lack of opportunity for socially minded entrepreneurs. As such, we will be working with faculty, students, and other institutional partners to develop Swarthmore’s new Social Innovation Lab. The following individual projects will all be operated within the Social Innovation Lab. Note: We believe we have failed if only Swarthmore students and faculty are using the Innovation Lab. Therefore, community engagement is essential to our mission.

Strategic Priority #1 (Omri 2017): Incentivise Swarthmore students to engage in social entrepreneurship and innovation
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Given Swarthmore student’s passion for social change, there is immense potential to harness this energy and channel it towards social innovation.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currentlyhowever, the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Swarthmore does not provide enough opportunity (or incentive) for students to engage in social entrepreneurship/innovation.  

Project: Social Innovation Fellowship. The Social Innovation Fellowship is broken down as follows:

Facilitation

*''''Internal stakeholders - I will be facilitating design-thinking workshops for student groups and faculty committees on campus. I have already facilitated a design-thinking session for the faculty/student committee on Student Health and Wellbeing, and there is increasing institutional interest in participating in these workshops.
*External stakeholders - entrepreneurially minded non-profits/other organizations in surrounding Swarthmore area (mainly Philadelphia and Chester). I have already established numerous relationships with these external partners (most of which work with youth), all of whom are excited at the prospect of engaging with Swarthmore’s Innovation Lab. I will be working with these organizations to host either workshops or events focused on design-thinking, presentation/pitching techniques, etc.

Short term student engagement

*Students will enroll in ‘Entrepreneurship Fieldwork and Internship’ (half-credit), which will last for 6-8 weeks. They will be paired with an internal or external stakeholder, and work with them on a specific project.
**Ex: For students interested in film and media studies, they could be paired with a non-profit partner in Philadelphia that provides youth with equipment and skills to make their own films. The student could potentially serve as a mentor for 6-8 weeks, while also providing additional resources/information to help the organization.  ''''

Social Innovation Fellowship

*Students will enroll in Professor Denise Crossan’s Social Entrepreneurship in Principle and Practice course (1 credit). The course will cover the fundamentals ofdesign-thinking, and other innovative tools/techniques. Students in this course will then have the option to be paired with regional or international stakeholders. Professor Crossan and I (faculty head of the Social Innovation Lab), have already established partners in:
**Northern Ireland
**Columbia
**Japan
**England
**Spain
**Iraq
*A potential future spinoff would be that these students would then receive funding to travel to their respectivepartners,and engage in a summer internship in which they would be able to continue their project

 Ultimately, I believe that attracting more students to participate in the growing social innovation initiative on campus revolves heavily around credit. Being able to receive credit, while engaging in an applied learning project, is something that entices many students.

Strategic Priority #2.1 (Natasha 2017): Make Entrepreneurship Tangible

It is really important to us that “social entrepreneurship” is more than just a nebulous idea at Swarthmore. We want to go beyond the buzzwords, and give students an opportunity to actually apply all that they learn about design thinking. During the Stanford course, we have really appreciated the focus on prototyping - we<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plangive Swarthmore a workable “prototype” of a successful social enterprise on campus.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: Student Run Social Enterprise - Environmentally Sustainable Cafe We plan to launch a<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">student run, environmentally sustainable café inside the social innovation lab. We plan to serve coffee, tea, espresso, and baked goods out of a small part of our makerspace. The café will be fully managed by students, with a focus on environmental stewardship--we will use all compostable materials and source our food locally and sustainably. Many new buildings are being constructed in the northern part of campus with no food nearby, so we hope that the café will serve an emerging need. When we talked to students about our idea, there was a lot of excitement around the café - there is no good coffee on campus, students told us, and they are really excited that the café is going to have an environmental focus.

We already are in communication with Therese Ton, a student baker selling her products at local stores, and Ben Stern, a coffee aficionado on campus.

Strategic Priority #2.2 (Hanan 2018): SupportingStudent LedInitiatives 

A student-led cafe, previously known to students as Paces Cafe, was an occasional late night food option to students on campus. After years of growing, the cafe has taken on a new location, a bigger menu, and extended hours. Newly named as The Crumb Cafe, this late night eatery is open seven nights a week, offering a larger range of sandwiches, snacks, drinks, and meal items due to student access to and new use of the Sharples dining hall kitchen facility. The move has opened up additional opportunities for interested students to work at the cafe. The Crumb Cafe is also more accessible to all types of students on campus. Whereas the old cafe only accepted campus points, the renovated Crumb Cafe accepts a wide variety of meal plan options, such as Swat Points, Garnet Cash, Dining Dollars, and the late night meal swipe that every student has. Additionally, the Crumb Cafe is an environmentally sustainable cafe by using all compostable materials.

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With the expansion of the cafe and the early closing of other late night food options, the Crumb Cafe has been experiencing an influx of student customers causing long lines, extended wait times for food, running out of menu items within an hour of opening, and an unorganized ordering/delivering food system. There is a lot of excitement around the expansion of the cafe and the cafe has hired many new students but has been struggling to serve a large student body.

Project:
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<li>Design and Implement a “Crumb Cafe” App<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Streamline ordering process. Students can pre-order off the online menu and the app will give an estimated time that the food will be ready effectively decreasing the long wait times.</li>
<li>Streamline the delivery process. The app can notify students when their food is ready (ie. at the burger shop, Shakeshack, customers are notified via a vibrating remote when their orders are ready).</li>
<li>Streamline cafe-customer communications. The cafe quickly runs out of menu items that student most often order. Many students have expressed how disappointed they have been to enter the cafe, wait in line, and only find out about certain items running out when they are about to order. The app can notify students of what is currently available to order and what has run out.</li>
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<li>Secure funding for an increase in student staff<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>With the option to order via the app and avoid the long wait lines, many more students may interact with The Crumb Cafe. This means that there will be a need for increased staffing - perhaps staff solely dedicated to online orders, and staff dedicated to in-person cafe orders.</li>
<li>This will support many low-income students on campus looking for employment as well as to increase their skills. Working in a group setting develops one’s communication, ability to work in a team, and encourages initiative and motivation - skills that are transferable to any other job on or off campus.</li>
<li>As more staff requires more funding so students can be paid, a grant can be proposed to the student government organization (SGO) and student budget committee (SBC) detailing the needs of the community and how additional staffing will address the needs.</li>
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Strategic Priority #3.1 (Mariam 2017): Develop spin-off opportunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by nurturing student enterprises/groups/projects/student groups using Impact Investing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Need: As a result of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship project mapping at Swarthmore College, we identified a dire lack of spin-off opportunities (3-5 years support plans) that would spur and scale projects that have survived the test of time. The immediate need that we investigated is the scarcity of funding needed to scale the strategic and operational activities of a business/enterprise/organization/student groups that are past the initial forming stages of their venture.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution: Impact Investing Group The goal of the Impact Investing project is to invest a fund (that will initially originate out of a grant/endowment from Swarthmore College). This fund will be initially invested by pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors while abiding by the social, governmental, environmental principles of Impact Investing. Over the course of a couple of years, returns on investments will be allocated to the spin-off fund that Swarthmore entrepreneurs can apply for. The returns generated from the investments will financially support more mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs at their spinout/scaling stages. In parallel, students at the Swarthmore Investing club can gain educational and practical experience in investing by giving assistance to the pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors network. They will be the guardians of the Impact Investing fund. This educational partnership will secure a pipeline of socially minded-investors that are making returns for Swarthmore entrepreneurs.  

As a result, the Impact Investing project will not only educate future socially-minded investors, but it will also incentivize young entrepreneurs to prove themselves and gain access to spin-off funding opportunities. The Impact Investing project will<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thereforebe a merit-based, socially-minded, and educational incentive for Entrepreneurship.

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stakeholders:

*Swarthmore Finance and Investment Office: will be key in securing the initial grant and endowment for the Impact Investing project.

*Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility: will connect mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders to the Impact Investing project.

*Center for Innovation and Leadership: will educate and nurture Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders in their initial entrepreneurial stages.

*Swat Careers: can be helpful in finding Swarthmore alumni who are willing to work pro-bono or train students on how to invest money.

*Swarthmore Alumni Office: can be helpful in their outreach to investors who are in the Swarthmore alumni network.

*Swarthmore Investment Club: will be exposed to best practices in Impact Investing. They will support and assist pro bono investors of the Impact Investing project. This educational experience will ensure the sustainability of the pro bono investor pipeline.
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 '''Strategic Priority #3.2 (Lamia 2018):'''Develop spin-off opp'''ortunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by''''''connecting these entrepreneurs to the resources needed for them to accelerate in the ‘real world’.'''

Though certain spin off opportunities do currently exist, they are not sufficient, and it is difficult for developing entrepreneurs to really grow and scale both through the resources offered as Swarthmore and beyond the school campus. The need for spin-off opportunities could most easily take the form of a program that connects certain budding entrepreneurs who have gone through earlier resources from the College to existing opportunities beyond the school.

''Project:''Swarthmore Entrepreneur in Residence Program

Objective

Help accelerate projects or business being run by current Swarthmore students or recent graduates by giving student entrepreneurs a space to develop their businesses on campus and access to resources needed to scale beyond Swarthmore.

Potential Components

*Business network - connection to established UX designers, marketing freelance, other entrepreneurs in the industry etc.

*Connection to real investors - alum network, potential opportunity to pitch in front of them

*Connection to other pitch competitions (including some that other students have already pitched at and have connections to) ex. Global Startup Ecosystem, University Startup World Cup,

*Scholarship opportunities to real business accelerators like Draper University, Y Combinator, 500 Startups etc. in San Francisco and elsewhere
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<li>Funding for summer cohort in these accelerators as an additional option for "summer impact funding"</li>
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*Accepting credit for programs like Draper University towards an entrepreneurship course (Under Economics? Peace & Conflict Studies?) [longer term goal]

*Office space on campus for established student-run business - business address and temporary space for team establishment

Some of these resources may exist independently under different programs or as autonomous activities, but there is no formalised means of connecting them and centralising the steps for a mature entrepreneur to scale beyond Swarthmore.

Strategic Priority #4.1 (Michelle 2017): Make Entrepreneurship Collaborative Rather than Competitive

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As college students, we are often told that we have to do a million things, from balancing classes to athletics to clubs. On top of our immense workload, we are often fed the notion that we have to "find our calling" in the next 4 years. In the midst of all of these insane expectations leveraged against us, we often forget is that what we truly need is a <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mentor<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- someone who is there to support us and cheer us on, no matter what we do.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: TriConnect - Peer-to-peer mentoring website TriConnect is a mentoring website that helps students in the Tri-College Consortium (Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr) tap into the untapped network of mentors, aka the amazing students that attend these three esteemed colleges. Students start by creating a profile, listing all of their affiliations (majors, clubs, interests etc.) and what they can offer mentorship in and what they are seeking to be mentored in (i.e. a CS student looking for someone more involved in the Tri-Co entrepreneurship environment). Once a profile is created, they can reach out to other students on the network to set up meals, attend events together etc.

The Impact of “TriConnect”: By creating a platform that directly fosters peer-to-peer mentorship, TriConnect hopes to not only empower <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">individuals,but also shift school culture from one that is hyper-competitive and often cutthroat to one that is more collaborative and supportive. We hope that this will lead to benefits in student mental health and physical well-being, all the while cultivating student entrepreneurship and innovation.
<div> </div></div><div>Strategic Priority #4.2 (Cassandra 2018): Landscape Update and Further Collaboration Opportunities</div> <div>There are many different opportunities to get involved with various facets of entrepreneurship on campus. These include organizations such as SWIFT, LaunchDeck, 180 Consulting, and WiCS+. While it is great to have all these existing programs, itis also meansthat entrepreneurship efforts are divided among all these clubs. This, in a sense, heightens the sense of "competition" Michelle addressed last year. As entrepreneurial resources grow on campus, it is critical that we create initiatives to get these groups to work together. </div><div> Student Government Organization Committees Swarthmore's SGO has many committees that handle bringing various student groups together in other to help move the campus community forward as a whole. As entrepreneurship opportunities become a high priority for students on campus, it would be beneficial for SGO to create a Standing Committee on Entrepreneurship, which would involve weekly meetings with the leaders of the entrepreneurial groups of campus. </div><div> Cross-Group Peer to Peer Mentorship While Michelle's Peer-to-Peer program focused on resources available to the greater TriCo community, I am interested in fostering collaboration within the institution by establishing a similar mentoring program to connect members across the aforementioned entrepreneurial groups. By doing so, we would be able to encourage the sharing of ideas and resources across these organizations and reduce the existing beauricraticlandscape of entrepreneurship and innovation that exists at Swarthmore College.</div></div>
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.66670036315918px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Strategic Priority #5.1 (Gaeta 2019): Initiate, Collaborate, Educate

As we seek to expand social innovation work and involve our community both on campus and locally with the educational opportunities outlined in our mission,  collaboration with peer schools has unequivocally shown to be a necessary- vital intricacy that can bolster a wide array of program success on our campus. The college encourages communication with both Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College as they have been affiliated for several decades as part of the "Quaker Consortium" or Tri-College Network among our schools. From lab research affiliations to official programs such as the Tri-Co Philly initiative, we feel it is imperative to use the existing relationship with these schools to increase the presence of cross-campus social innovation endeavors. 

To do so, we propose that this collaboration serves as a mechanism to strengthen the prior and current student priorities that are outlined on this page. That is, we acknowledge that collaboration among our colleges is, though indeed important, more appropriately serve as secondary landscape foresight. Nonetheless, the following steps outline our primary next steps to begin these programs fruition.

1. Formal proposal to social engagement/ entrepreneurship stakeholders at each school. This will begin a conversation and introduce the three schools to a shared vested interest in advancing student engagement.

2. Schedule a student interest meeting on each campus to attract students from each school into a setting/forum with possible guest speakers or events that can begin to lay a framework for a relationship among the school's innovators.

3. Follow up and strict deadlines will be a vital component of this mission. We will have a hard deadline for December 15th to achieve step 1 and begin the process of scheduling the events for part 2.

4. Continous community feedback from all three campuses is not to be overlooked throughout this proposal. The most fundamental tenant of this work is giving one another a voice- and- embracing this priority will be at the forefront of this collaboration involving email surveys, classroom engagement, presentations, and similar means of allowing community members to share their opinions on the program.

<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Strategic Priority #5.2 (Emma 2019): Making the I&E Community More Accessible

We have noticed that a lot of our programs on campus that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship assume that students already know about or are interested the topic. We want to invite students from a broader set of backgrounds to participate in I&E by creating programs geared towards educating students about the basics of what I&E is and how it connects to their own lives so that they might be more likely to participate in other existing programs in the future.

We envisioned setting up workshops in casual spaces all around campus (lounges in dorms, common spaces in academic buildings, the dining hall, etc.) where interested participants could easily meet and passers-by could get drawn in spontaneously. To add to the welcoming atmosphere, there might be snacks or other incentives to stop by and join in. There might be literature (pamphlets or flyers) as a visual aid to the learning process, as well as some structured topics to help get conversation flowing. The idea is to ease students into I&E by identifying problems they would like to solve and how design thinking could relate to that, but not necessarily asking them to start solving them in that setting. In this way the workshops are low-stakes and hopefully less intimidating to someone who doesn't identify themselves as already part of the I&E community.

'''<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;">Strategic Priority #5.3 (Ray 2019): Increase Outreach'''

We believe that there are many students on campus who would benefit from learning about innovation and entrepreneurship. We want to increase our outreach and bring in students who are not already involved with innovation or entrepreneurship. Once these students are engaged and interested, they can connect more with the I&E resources that exist on campus.

In order to bring in these students, we will host TEDx talks on the theme of innovation. It would include speakers who have demonstrated significant innovation within their respective fields to talk about what innovation means to them, what kind of process it involves, why it matters, etc.  We would like to display different applications of innovation principles so students can see where these principles are relevant to their own interests. Since Swarthmore students tend to be passionate about social issues, we chose the following speaker types that would appeal to that demographic: social entrepreneurs, activists, musicians/artists, and sustainability technologists. With this project we hope to engage a wide variety of students - especially students who are not already involved with I&E at Swarthmore.
<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #5.4 (Nancy 2019)'''</div><div> </div><div>From its endowment of over $2 billion (one of the highest endowments per student), Swarthmore College provides many funding opportunities.  Students can apply for seed funding to design and implement their own social impact projects, as well as stipends to engage in internships and other entrepreneurial pursuits. However, we noticed that many students had never applied for any grants on campus due to factors such as being daunted by the application process, or not knowing which opportunities were available. </div><div> </div><div>We intend to organize grant-writing workshops to enable more students to access on-campus funding opportunities. There will be information sessions to consolidate and highlight various funding opportunities. Further hands-on grant-writing workshops will demystify the application process and assist students in actually writing a grant application. Grant writing is a transferable skill that will also benefit students applying for off-campus grants, or future scholarship applications for graduate school and beyond. We want more students to have the opportunity to access seed funding to add to the diversity of Swarthmore’s innovation and entrepreneurship landscape.

Strategic Priority #6.1 (Edward 2020): Start Innovating Earlier

This year has been an important year for reflection and looking at trends. Although the term “social entrepreneurship” has become less vague for Swarthmore students idea since I was a Freshman, there is still work to be done. One of the problems we see is as follows: 1)It is difficult for Swarthmore students to focus on innovation in their earlier years due to their liberal arts requirements; and 2)Liberal arts students are facing a tougher job market that requires more experience of design thinking than ever before. 1) and 2), when together, present a growing problem that we intend to focus on. During this Stanford course, we have upgraded our design thinking skills, and by learning to prototype effectively we feel ready to take this problem on.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plan

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: Bringing the Liberal Arts ethic into Career Services We plan to launch a<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">student run, new student-run set of resources as part of Swarthmore's Career Services department. We plan to employ students to find short, part-time job opportunities for every subject matter and to publish a weekly email blast. We also plan to work with Swarthmore alumni to produce a private selection of shorter internships. This will allow Swarthmore students, particular newer Swarthmore students, to gain valuable skills and work experience whilst taking classes. When we talked to students about our idea, there was a lot of excitement - the career services department focuses on Juniors and Seniors, students told us, and they are really excited to learn critical skills (such as design thinking) and to lessen their anxiety about finding an internship/job after graduation.

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<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.2 (Fiorenza 2020)'''</div><div> </div><div> A remote semester has students feeling detached from the innovation ecosystem at Swarthmore. Additionally, students are burnt out from zoom meetings and have little motivation to pursue virtual extracurricular activities. Therefore, we thought of creating a one-day virtual design thinking challenge in partnership with the Trico schools. Students would come together to address a challenge presented by the City of Philadelphia. The challenge would incentivize students to attend because it gives them an opportunity to connect with the innovation ecosystem in the Swarthmore area and upon completion, they will obtain tangible outcomes for their skill development. Successful participants would obtain a certificate of completion that demonstrates their understanding of the design thinking model and they would enter to win a gift card. Their experience would motivate them to apply design thinking to other challenges they face and would establish a connection to the innovation resources available at Swarthmore.</div></div>

<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.3 (Haron 2020)'''</div><div> </div><div>Swarthmore College prides itself on many departments that offer funding geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship. However, there is not much guidance for how new student innovators can get to move their ideas from an idea to an actual implementable project. This is the gap that my UIF project intends to fill. I am designing a 10 week Systems Thinking course that will guide new student innovators through the project design process. By so doing, this gives the students a good grasp of the issue area they want to address as well as what leverage points exist.

These new student innovators will also have access to seasoned Social Innovation Lab Associates who have successfully undergone this process and worked on projects. By setting up a feedback channel between new innovators and the experienced ones, the new student innovators will have a lot to gain.</div></div>

Strategic Priority #7.1 (Sofia 2021): OurSwat Game

The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap between older students who were on campus before and new, younger students who have not experienced what full campus life feels like. This has led to issues in communication, knowledge, and isolation, as newer students struggle to fully adapt to campus culture. Therefore, I propose that a virtual (video) game that encompasses campus life would help to bridge the knowledge gap and facilitate participation between students. This would include mini challenges for different areas of campus that teach players about different spaces and where they can go, chat rooms, and also instructional videos that can help teach students how to adjust to campus. This would also include a challenge on design thinking, facilitated by the space in the game that occurs in the Center for Innovation and Leadership, in order to help prepare students for important design skills. By including this in a game format, it will be more engaging to students that are burnt out from the past year and a half of online classes than a zoom or other format.

Strategic Priority #7.2 (Ipeknaz 2021): Industry Courses

Since I have come to Swarthmore, something I have heard students complain about again and again is that courses we take in the college are too theoretical and they do not prepare us for internships/jobs within the industry itself. Implementing a hybrid course that aims to teach students concepts actually in-use within the industry of interest and matching them with shadowing/mentoring opportunities could help students feel more prepared in applying for jobs and long term internship opportunities. One department that this idea could be especially useful for is the computer science department. We could create a course where students could learn about current tools and software used to develop apps currently, they can develop their own ideas for apps using the design thinking process, they can be matched with industry professionals to shadow for a few weeks and then they can start implementing their own ideas with mentors who can help them think about technical skills or more conceptual ideas.

Strategic Priority #7.3 (Jackie Le 2021): Liberal Arts Consortium

Swarthmore College is known for its academic rigor, which places a lot of stress on students as they struggle to find a balance between their social life and classes. This balance has been exacerbated by the virtual learning setting and the transition from virtual to in-person. Despite the few resources available to students, they are either too busy with their work to utilize them or do not notice them.

This is not a solution, but rather a source of interest that may open up opportunities for solutions to be implemented. This approach involves collaborating with other liberal arts colleges (LAC) in the LAC network. By sending out invitations and surveying students from other LACs about their experiences with mental health, academic workload, and resources available to them, we may learn how Swarthmore College can improve its own student ecosystem. It is from these correspondences that data can be gathered and synthesized to produce results that can be used as an impetus for administrators and students at Swarthmore College to prioritize this issue, of which freshmen and international students are most affected by.

Collaboration will also occur with members of the Aydelotte Foundation, whose focus centers around LACs as institutions and the direction they are heading towards over time. Questions such as:

Wonder where Liberal Arts is going as an idea?
Interested in the wide landscape of higher education at these challenging times?
Thinking about structural inequality in higher education?

are relevant to issues these students are facing and can be used as a springboard from which to discuss resources that may be offered to improve the quality of life for students at Swarthmore College.

Again, this strategic priority focuses more on expanding the network from which resources can be pooled and utilized for students.

Strategic Priority #7.4 (Shirley Liu 2021): Swarthmore Alumni Webpage Improvement 

One of the most common impressions people have about liberal art college is what students learn in school could not be applied well in industry or life post-graduation in general. Although it's not at all the case, there is indeed a gap between academia and industry faculty and students are concerned about. Alumni resource is very helpful in bridging student's academic work and interest and the industry since they are people who have gone through similar experiences and could provide the most updated insight of a specific industry. There is already an alumni network database students can access via a webpage, which stores alumni's name, occupation, major at Swarthmore, internship/externship opportunities they can provide, interest, etc. However, students at Swarthmore were not the most familiar with this webpage because it is 1) not the most advertised and 2) relatively hard to process and organize the search results. To improve the user experience of the webpage, I'm envisioning a map that utilizes the current alumni information in the database and represents it in the format of a map that shows where the alumni are, what company they're working for, what kind of opportunity they can provide, etc. This idea is inspired by the off-campus studies website, which employs a map to represent all the study-abroad programs and exchange programs while providing information on past participants of the programs.

The stakeholders for this project would be: career service faculties, ITS team, alumni, and students. Some current constraints are:
1) Whether the school would like to invest time and money to better the current alumni network webpage;
2) How busy the career services faculty and ITS staff s and whether we would be adding a huge workload on their plate;
3) How much information does alumni want to provide regarding their current professional life and whether they're willing to constantly update the information;
4) How many people are able to dedicate their time to develope this webpage and how are we going to pay for their work

Suppose we have overcome all the obstacles, these are the steps to realize this project:
1) Consult the off-campus studies office to see what they did/needed for the map representation of programs
2) Hold a stakeholder meeting to set a budget and time frame for the development
3) Talk with spear-headed people from career services and ITS to map out the timeline
4) Secure testers to provide feedback for the prototypes of the webpage
5) Check-in with all parties monthly to monitor the progress

=Related Links=
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1P9pZCbRlv8-eIaHho2ko6pGe65m2PPV9VVw6Z9znQ/edit?usp=sharing 2021 Swarthmore College Fall Landscape Canvas]

=Related Links=

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

Hanan Ahmad

Cassandra Stone 

Lamia Makkar

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]
[[Category:Student Priorities]]
[[Category:Student Priorities]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
[[Category:Student_Priorities]]
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School:Swarthmore College

2021-10-08T01:01:30Z

Jackiele4311: /* Related Links */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)''

The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote student and faculty innovation alike.
These include:

''CPSC 016SR (a student-run computer science course)- Critical Theory of Technology''

A historical lens is used to explore and understand how the use of technology exacerbates inequalities around the world and what can be done to control its direction.

''PEAC014 (a peace and conflict studies course)- Systems Thinking for Social Change''

The ecosystems by which problems in particular communities form are analyzed; a systematic approach is used to promote the "greatest social impact" through "social innovation solutions" to these problems.

''ENGR 053 (an engineering course)- Inclusive Engineering Design''

Universal design, human-centered design, and critical design approaches are explored as they relate to how they can be applied to existing technologies and projects in society that place particular groups and communities at a disadvantage.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1P9pZCbRlv8-eIaHho2ko6pGe65m2PPV9VVw6Z9znQ/edit?usp=sharing 2021 Swarthmore College Fall Landscape Canvas]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
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[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-10-08T01:00:54Z

Jackiele4311: /* Related Links */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)''

The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote student and faculty innovation alike.
These include:

''CPSC 016SR (a student-run computer science course)- Critical Theory of Technology''

A historical lens is used to explore and understand how the use of technology exacerbates inequalities around the world and what can be done to control its direction.

''PEAC014 (a peace and conflict studies course)- Systems Thinking for Social Change''

The ecosystems by which problems in particular communities form are analyzed; a systematic approach is used to promote the "greatest social impact" through "social innovation solutions" to these problems.

''ENGR 053 (an engineering course)- Inclusive Engineering Design''

Universal design, human-centered design, and critical design approaches are explored as they relate to how they can be applied to existing technologies and projects in society that place particular groups and communities at a disadvantage.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1P9pZCbRlv8-eIaHho2ko6pGe65m2PPV9VVw6Z9znQ/edit?usp=sharing]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
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Fellow:Jackie Le

2021-10-08T00:59:03Z

Jackiele4311:

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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

Questbridge Scholar

First-generation college student
==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3

 

== Related Links ==
School: [[School:Swarthmore College|Swarthmore College]]

Priorities: [[Priorities:Swarthmore College Student Priorities|Swarthmore College Student Priorities]]

2021 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

Fellow: [[Fellow:Shirley Liu|Shirley Liu]]

Fellow: [[Fellow:Sofia Frumkin|Sofia Frumkin]]

Fellow: [[Fellow:Ipeknaz Icten|Ipeknaz Icten]]
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Topic:Whllm06asfa3z9hh

2021-10-04T03:27:40Z

Jackiele4311 (talk | contribs) commented on "Keep talking!" (I also liked the one-on-one conversations, as it helped me better understand my problem in the sense of whether it is the right one to ta...)

Topic:Whpf8h51pzoet3np

2021-10-04T03:20:40Z

Jackiele4311 (talk | contribs) commented on "Not a straight path" (I agree, in that there is both a fast-paced yet detailed process that we had gone through when following the change model canvas for our...)

Priorities:Swarthmore College Student Priorities

2021-09-26T19:51:37Z

Jackiele4311:

At Swarthmore College, we have experienced an apparent lack of opportunity for socially minded entrepreneurs. As such, we will be working with faculty, students, and other institutional partners to develop Swarthmore’s new Social Innovation Lab. The following individual projects will all be operated within the Social Innovation Lab. Note: We believe we have failed if only Swarthmore students and faculty are using the Innovation Lab. Therefore, community engagement is essential to our mission.

Strategic Priority #1 (Omri 2017): Incentivise Swarthmore students to engage in social entrepreneurship and innovation
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Given Swarthmore student’s passion for social change, there is immense potential to harness this energy and channel it towards social innovation.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currentlyhowever, the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Swarthmore does not provide enough opportunity (or incentive) for students to engage in social entrepreneurship/innovation.  

Project: Social Innovation Fellowship. The Social Innovation Fellowship is broken down as follows:

Facilitation

*''''Internal stakeholders - I will be facilitating design-thinking workshops for student groups and faculty committees on campus. I have already facilitated a design-thinking session for the faculty/student committee on Student Health and Wellbeing, and there is increasing institutional interest in participating in these workshops.
*External stakeholders - entrepreneurially minded non-profits/other organizations in surrounding Swarthmore area (mainly Philadelphia and Chester). I have already established numerous relationships with these external partners (most of which work with youth), all of whom are excited at the prospect of engaging with Swarthmore’s Innovation Lab. I will be working with these organizations to host either workshops or events focused on design-thinking, presentation/pitching techniques, etc.

Short term student engagement

*Students will enroll in ‘Entrepreneurship Fieldwork and Internship’ (half-credit), which will last for 6-8 weeks. They will be paired with an internal or external stakeholder, and work with them on a specific project.
**Ex: For students interested in film and media studies, they could be paired with a non-profit partner in Philadelphia that provides youth with equipment and skills to make their own films. The student could potentially serve as a mentor for 6-8 weeks, while also providing additional resources/information to help the organization.  ''''

Social Innovation Fellowship

*Students will enroll in Professor Denise Crossan’s Social Entrepreneurship in Principle and Practice course (1 credit). The course will cover the fundamentals ofdesign-thinking, and other innovative tools/techniques. Students in this course will then have the option to be paired with regional or international stakeholders. Professor Crossan and I (faculty head of the Social Innovation Lab), have already established partners in:
**Northern Ireland
**Columbia
**Japan
**England
**Spain
**Iraq
*A potential future spinoff would be that these students would then receive funding to travel to their respectivepartners,and engage in a summer internship in which they would be able to continue their project

 Ultimately, I believe that attracting more students to participate in the growing social innovation initiative on campus revolves heavily around credit. Being able to receive credit, while engaging in an applied learning project, is something that entices many students.

Strategic Priority #2.1 (Natasha 2017): Make Entrepreneurship Tangible

It is really important to us that “social entrepreneurship” is more than just a nebulous idea at Swarthmore. We want to go beyond the buzzwords, and give students an opportunity to actually apply all that they learn about design thinking. During the Stanford course, we have really appreciated the focus on prototyping - we<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plangive Swarthmore a workable “prototype” of a successful social enterprise on campus.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: Student Run Social Enterprise - Environmentally Sustainable Cafe We plan to launch a<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">student run, environmentally sustainable café inside the social innovation lab. We plan to serve coffee, tea, espresso, and baked goods out of a small part of our makerspace. The café will be fully managed by students, with a focus on environmental stewardship--we will use all compostable materials and source our food locally and sustainably. Many new buildings are being constructed in the northern part of campus with no food nearby, so we hope that the café will serve an emerging need. When we talked to students about our idea, there was a lot of excitement around the café - there is no good coffee on campus, students told us, and they are really excited that the café is going to have an environmental focus.

We already are in communication with Therese Ton, a student baker selling her products at local stores, and Ben Stern, a coffee aficionado on campus.

Strategic Priority #2.2 (Hanan 2018): SupportingStudent LedInitiatives 

A student-led cafe, previously known to students as Paces Cafe, was an occasional late night food option to students on campus. After years of growing, the cafe has taken on a new location, a bigger menu, and extended hours. Newly named as The Crumb Cafe, this late night eatery is open seven nights a week, offering a larger range of sandwiches, snacks, drinks, and meal items due to student access to and new use of the Sharples dining hall kitchen facility. The move has opened up additional opportunities for interested students to work at the cafe. The Crumb Cafe is also more accessible to all types of students on campus. Whereas the old cafe only accepted campus points, the renovated Crumb Cafe accepts a wide variety of meal plan options, such as Swat Points, Garnet Cash, Dining Dollars, and the late night meal swipe that every student has. Additionally, the Crumb Cafe is an environmentally sustainable cafe by using all compostable materials.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Issue & demonstrated need for support:

With the expansion of the cafe and the early closing of other late night food options, the Crumb Cafe has been experiencing an influx of student customers causing long lines, extended wait times for food, running out of menu items within an hour of opening, and an unorganized ordering/delivering food system. There is a lot of excitement around the expansion of the cafe and the cafe has hired many new students but has been struggling to serve a large student body.

Project:
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<li>Design and Implement a “Crumb Cafe” App<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Streamline ordering process. Students can pre-order off the online menu and the app will give an estimated time that the food will be ready effectively decreasing the long wait times.</li>
<li>Streamline the delivery process. The app can notify students when their food is ready (ie. at the burger shop, Shakeshack, customers are notified via a vibrating remote when their orders are ready).</li>
<li>Streamline cafe-customer communications. The cafe quickly runs out of menu items that student most often order. Many students have expressed how disappointed they have been to enter the cafe, wait in line, and only find out about certain items running out when they are about to order. The app can notify students of what is currently available to order and what has run out.</li>
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<li>Secure funding for an increase in student staff<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>With the option to order via the app and avoid the long wait lines, many more students may interact with The Crumb Cafe. This means that there will be a need for increased staffing - perhaps staff solely dedicated to online orders, and staff dedicated to in-person cafe orders.</li>
<li>This will support many low-income students on campus looking for employment as well as to increase their skills. Working in a group setting develops one’s communication, ability to work in a team, and encourages initiative and motivation - skills that are transferable to any other job on or off campus.</li>
<li>As more staff requires more funding so students can be paid, a grant can be proposed to the student government organization (SGO) and student budget committee (SBC) detailing the needs of the community and how additional staffing will address the needs.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

Strategic Priority #3.1 (Mariam 2017): Develop spin-off opportunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by nurturing student enterprises/groups/projects/student groups using Impact Investing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Need: As a result of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship project mapping at Swarthmore College, we identified a dire lack of spin-off opportunities (3-5 years support plans) that would spur and scale projects that have survived the test of time. The immediate need that we investigated is the scarcity of funding needed to scale the strategic and operational activities of a business/enterprise/organization/student groups that are past the initial forming stages of their venture.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution: Impact Investing Group The goal of the Impact Investing project is to invest a fund (that will initially originate out of a grant/endowment from Swarthmore College). This fund will be initially invested by pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors while abiding by the social, governmental, environmental principles of Impact Investing. Over the course of a couple of years, returns on investments will be allocated to the spin-off fund that Swarthmore entrepreneurs can apply for. The returns generated from the investments will financially support more mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs at their spinout/scaling stages. In parallel, students at the Swarthmore Investing club can gain educational and practical experience in investing by giving assistance to the pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors network. They will be the guardians of the Impact Investing fund. This educational partnership will secure a pipeline of socially minded-investors that are making returns for Swarthmore entrepreneurs.  

As a result, the Impact Investing project will not only educate future socially-minded investors, but it will also incentivize young entrepreneurs to prove themselves and gain access to spin-off funding opportunities. The Impact Investing project will<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thereforebe a merit-based, socially-minded, and educational incentive for Entrepreneurship.

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stakeholders:

*Swarthmore Finance and Investment Office: will be key in securing the initial grant and endowment for the Impact Investing project.

*Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility: will connect mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders to the Impact Investing project.

*Center for Innovation and Leadership: will educate and nurture Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders in their initial entrepreneurial stages.

*Swat Careers: can be helpful in finding Swarthmore alumni who are willing to work pro-bono or train students on how to invest money.

*Swarthmore Alumni Office: can be helpful in their outreach to investors who are in the Swarthmore alumni network.

*Swarthmore Investment Club: will be exposed to best practices in Impact Investing. They will support and assist pro bono investors of the Impact Investing project. This educational experience will ensure the sustainability of the pro bono investor pipeline.
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 '''Strategic Priority #3.2 (Lamia 2018):'''Develop spin-off opp'''ortunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by''''''connecting these entrepreneurs to the resources needed for them to accelerate in the ‘real world’.'''

Though certain spin off opportunities do currently exist, they are not sufficient, and it is difficult for developing entrepreneurs to really grow and scale both through the resources offered as Swarthmore and beyond the school campus. The need for spin-off opportunities could most easily take the form of a program that connects certain budding entrepreneurs who have gone through earlier resources from the College to existing opportunities beyond the school.

''Project:''Swarthmore Entrepreneur in Residence Program

Objective

Help accelerate projects or business being run by current Swarthmore students or recent graduates by giving student entrepreneurs a space to develop their businesses on campus and access to resources needed to scale beyond Swarthmore.

Potential Components

*Business network - connection to established UX designers, marketing freelance, other entrepreneurs in the industry etc.

*Connection to real investors - alum network, potential opportunity to pitch in front of them

*Connection to other pitch competitions (including some that other students have already pitched at and have connections to) ex. Global Startup Ecosystem, University Startup World Cup,

*Scholarship opportunities to real business accelerators like Draper University, Y Combinator, 500 Startups etc. in San Francisco and elsewhere
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<li>Funding for summer cohort in these accelerators as an additional option for "summer impact funding"</li>
</ul>

*Accepting credit for programs like Draper University towards an entrepreneurship course (Under Economics? Peace & Conflict Studies?) [longer term goal]

*Office space on campus for established student-run business - business address and temporary space for team establishment

Some of these resources may exist independently under different programs or as autonomous activities, but there is no formalised means of connecting them and centralising the steps for a mature entrepreneur to scale beyond Swarthmore.

Strategic Priority #4.1 (Michelle 2017): Make Entrepreneurship Collaborative Rather than Competitive

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As college students, we are often told that we have to do a million things, from balancing classes to athletics to clubs. On top of our immense workload, we are often fed the notion that we have to "find our calling" in the next 4 years. In the midst of all of these insane expectations leveraged against us, we often forget is that what we truly need is a <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mentor<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- someone who is there to support us and cheer us on, no matter what we do.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: TriConnect - Peer-to-peer mentoring website TriConnect is a mentoring website that helps students in the Tri-College Consortium (Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr) tap into the untapped network of mentors, aka the amazing students that attend these three esteemed colleges. Students start by creating a profile, listing all of their affiliations (majors, clubs, interests etc.) and what they can offer mentorship in and what they are seeking to be mentored in (i.e. a CS student looking for someone more involved in the Tri-Co entrepreneurship environment). Once a profile is created, they can reach out to other students on the network to set up meals, attend events together etc.

The Impact of “TriConnect”: By creating a platform that directly fosters peer-to-peer mentorship, TriConnect hopes to not only empower <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">individuals,but also shift school culture from one that is hyper-competitive and often cutthroat to one that is more collaborative and supportive. We hope that this will lead to benefits in student mental health and physical well-being, all the while cultivating student entrepreneurship and innovation.
<div> </div></div><div>Strategic Priority #4.2 (Cassandra 2018): Landscape Update and Further Collaboration Opportunities</div> <div>There are many different opportunities to get involved with various facets of entrepreneurship on campus. These include organizations such as SWIFT, LaunchDeck, 180 Consulting, and WiCS+. While it is great to have all these existing programs, itis also meansthat entrepreneurship efforts are divided among all these clubs. This, in a sense, heightens the sense of "competition" Michelle addressed last year. As entrepreneurial resources grow on campus, it is critical that we create initiatives to get these groups to work together. </div><div> Student Government Organization Committees Swarthmore's SGO has many committees that handle bringing various student groups together in other to help move the campus community forward as a whole. As entrepreneurship opportunities become a high priority for students on campus, it would be beneficial for SGO to create a Standing Committee on Entrepreneurship, which would involve weekly meetings with the leaders of the entrepreneurial groups of campus. </div><div> Cross-Group Peer to Peer Mentorship While Michelle's Peer-to-Peer program focused on resources available to the greater TriCo community, I am interested in fostering collaboration within the institution by establishing a similar mentoring program to connect members across the aforementioned entrepreneurial groups. By doing so, we would be able to encourage the sharing of ideas and resources across these organizations and reduce the existing beauricraticlandscape of entrepreneurship and innovation that exists at Swarthmore College.</div></div>
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.66670036315918px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Strategic Priority #5.1 (Gaeta 2019): Initiate, Collaborate, Educate

As we seek to expand social innovation work and involve our community both on campus and locally with the educational opportunities outlined in our mission,  collaboration with peer schools has unequivocally shown to be a necessary- vital intricacy that can bolster a wide array of program success on our campus. The college encourages communication with both Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College as they have been affiliated for several decades as part of the "Quaker Consortium" or Tri-College Network among our schools. From lab research affiliations to official programs such as the Tri-Co Philly initiative, we feel it is imperative to use the existing relationship with these schools to increase the presence of cross-campus social innovation endeavors. 

To do so, we propose that this collaboration serves as a mechanism to strengthen the prior and current student priorities that are outlined on this page. That is, we acknowledge that collaboration among our colleges is, though indeed important, more appropriately serve as secondary landscape foresight. Nonetheless, the following steps outline our primary next steps to begin these programs fruition.

1. Formal proposal to social engagement/ entrepreneurship stakeholders at each school. This will begin a conversation and introduce the three schools to a shared vested interest in advancing student engagement.

2. Schedule a student interest meeting on each campus to attract students from each school into a setting/forum with possible guest speakers or events that can begin to lay a framework for a relationship among the school's innovators.

3. Follow up and strict deadlines will be a vital component of this mission. We will have a hard deadline for December 15th to achieve step 1 and begin the process of scheduling the events for part 2.

4. Continous community feedback from all three campuses is not to be overlooked throughout this proposal. The most fundamental tenant of this work is giving one another a voice- and- embracing this priority will be at the forefront of this collaboration involving email surveys, classroom engagement, presentations, and similar means of allowing community members to share their opinions on the program.

<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Strategic Priority #5.2 (Emma 2019): Making the I&E Community More Accessible

We have noticed that a lot of our programs on campus that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship assume that students already know about or are interested the topic. We want to invite students from a broader set of backgrounds to participate in I&E by creating programs geared towards educating students about the basics of what I&E is and how it connects to their own lives so that they might be more likely to participate in other existing programs in the future.

We envisioned setting up workshops in casual spaces all around campus (lounges in dorms, common spaces in academic buildings, the dining hall, etc.) where interested participants could easily meet and passers-by could get drawn in spontaneously. To add to the welcoming atmosphere, there might be snacks or other incentives to stop by and join in. There might be literature (pamphlets or flyers) as a visual aid to the learning process, as well as some structured topics to help get conversation flowing. The idea is to ease students into I&E by identifying problems they would like to solve and how design thinking could relate to that, but not necessarily asking them to start solving them in that setting. In this way the workshops are low-stakes and hopefully less intimidating to someone who doesn't identify themselves as already part of the I&E community.

'''<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;">Strategic Priority #5.3 (Ray 2019): Increase Outreach'''

We believe that there are many students on campus who would benefit from learning about innovation and entrepreneurship. We want to increase our outreach and bring in students who are not already involved with innovation or entrepreneurship. Once these students are engaged and interested, they can connect more with the I&E resources that exist on campus.

In order to bring in these students, we will host TEDx talks on the theme of innovation. It would include speakers who have demonstrated significant innovation within their respective fields to talk about what innovation means to them, what kind of process it involves, why it matters, etc.  We would like to display different applications of innovation principles so students can see where these principles are relevant to their own interests. Since Swarthmore students tend to be passionate about social issues, we chose the following speaker types that would appeal to that demographic: social entrepreneurs, activists, musicians/artists, and sustainability technologists. With this project we hope to engage a wide variety of students - especially students who are not already involved with I&E at Swarthmore.
<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #5.4 (Nancy 2019)'''</div><div> </div><div>From its endowment of over $2 billion (one of the highest endowments per student), Swarthmore College provides many funding opportunities.  Students can apply for seed funding to design and implement their own social impact projects, as well as stipends to engage in internships and other entrepreneurial pursuits. However, we noticed that many students had never applied for any grants on campus due to factors such as being daunted by the application process, or not knowing which opportunities were available. </div><div> </div><div>We intend to organize grant-writing workshops to enable more students to access on-campus funding opportunities. There will be information sessions to consolidate and highlight various funding opportunities. Further hands-on grant-writing workshops will demystify the application process and assist students in actually writing a grant application. Grant writing is a transferable skill that will also benefit students applying for off-campus grants, or future scholarship applications for graduate school and beyond. We want more students to have the opportunity to access seed funding to add to the diversity of Swarthmore’s innovation and entrepreneurship landscape.

Strategic Priority #6.1 (Edward 2020): Start Innovating Earlier

This year has been an important year for reflection and looking at trends. Although the term “social entrepreneurship” has become less vague for Swarthmore students idea since I was a Freshman, there is still work to be done. One of the problems we see is as follows: 1)It is difficult for Swarthmore students to focus on innovation in their earlier years due to their liberal arts requirements; and 2)Liberal arts students are facing a tougher job market that requires more experience of design thinking than ever before. 1) and 2), when together, present a growing problem that we intend to focus on. During this Stanford course, we have upgraded our design thinking skills, and by learning to prototype effectively we feel ready to take this problem on.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plan

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project: Bringing the Liberal Arts ethic into Career Services We plan to launch a<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">student run, new student-run set of resources as part of Swarthmore's Career Services department. We plan to employ students to find short, part-time job opportunities for every subject matter and to publish a weekly email blast. We also plan to work with Swarthmore alumni to produce a private selection of shorter internships. This will allow Swarthmore students, particular newer Swarthmore students, to gain valuable skills and work experience whilst taking classes. When we talked to students about our idea, there was a lot of excitement - the career services department focuses on Juniors and Seniors, students told us, and they are really excited to learn critical skills (such as design thinking) and to lessen their anxiety about finding an internship/job after graduation.

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<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.2 (Fiorenza 2020)'''</div><div> </div><div> A remote semester has students feeling detached from the innovation ecosystem at Swarthmore. Additionally, students are burnt out from zoom meetings and have little motivation to pursue virtual extracurricular activities. Therefore, we thought of creating a one-day virtual design thinking challenge in partnership with the Trico schools. Students would come together to address a challenge presented by the City of Philadelphia. The challenge would incentivize students to attend because it gives them an opportunity to connect with the innovation ecosystem in the Swarthmore area and upon completion, they will obtain tangible outcomes for their skill development. Successful participants would obtain a certificate of completion that demonstrates their understanding of the design thinking model and they would enter to win a gift card. Their experience would motivate them to apply design thinking to other challenges they face and would establish a connection to the innovation resources available at Swarthmore.</div></div>

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<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.3 (Haron 2020)'''</div><div> </div><div>Swarthmore College prides itself on many departments that offer funding geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship. However, there is not much guidance for how new student innovators can get to move their ideas from an idea to an actual implementable project. This is the gap that my UIF project intends to fill. I am designing a 10 week Systems Thinking course that will guide new student innovators through the project design process. By so doing, this gives the students a good grasp of the issue area they want to address as well as what leverage points exist.

These new student innovators will also have access to seasoned Social Innovation Lab Associates who have successfully undergone this process and worked on projects. By setting up a feedback channel between new innovators and the experienced ones, the new student innovators will have a lot to gain.</div></div>

Strategic Priority #7.1 (Sofia 2021): OurSwat Game

</div></div>
The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap between older students who were on campus before and new, younger students who have not experienced what full campus life feels like. This has led to issues in communication, knowledge, and isolation, as newer students struggle to fully adapt to campus culture. Therefore, I propose that a virtual (video) game that encompasses campus life would help to bridge the knowledge gap and facilitate participation between students. This would include mini challenges for different areas of campus that teach players about different spaces and where they can go, chat rooms, and also instructional videos that can help teach students how to adjust to campus. This would also include a challenge on design thinking, facilitated by the space in the game that occurs in the Center for Innovation and Leadership, in order to help prepare students for important design skills. By including this in a game format, it will be more engaging to students that are burnt out from the past year and a half of online classes than a zoom or other format.

Strategic Priority #7.2 (Ipeknaz 2021): Industry Courses

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Since I have come to Swarthmore, something I have heard students complain about again and again is that courses we take in the college are too theoretical and they do not prepare us for internships/jobs within the industry itself. Implementing a hybrid course that aims to teach students concepts actually in-use within the industry of interest and matching them with shadowing/mentoring opportunities could help students feel more prepared in applying for jobs and long term internship opportunities. One department that this idea could be especially useful for is the computer science department. We could create a course where students could learn about current tools and software used to develop apps currently, they can develop their own ideas for apps using the design thinking process, they can be matched with industry professionals to shadow for a few weeks and then they can start implementing their own ideas with mentors who can help them think about technical skills or more conceptual ideas.

Strategic Priority #7.3 (Jackie Le 2021): Liberal Arts Consortium

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Swarthmore College is known for its academic rigor, which places a lot of stress on students as they struggle to find a balance between their social life and classes. This balance has been exacerbated by the virtual learning setting and the transition from virtual to in-person. Despite the few resources available to students, they are either too busy with their work to utilize them or do not notice them.

This is not a solution, but rather a source of interest that may open up opportunities for solutions to be implemented. This approach involves collaborating with other liberal arts colleges (LAC) in the LAC network. By sending out invitations and surveying students from other LACs about their experiences with mental health, academic workload, and resources available to them, we may learn how Swarthmore College can improve its own student ecosystem. It is from these correspondences that data can be gathered and synthesized to produce results that can be used as an impetus for administrators and students at Swarthmore College to prioritize this issue, of which freshmen and international students are most affected by.

Collaboration will also occur with members of the Aydelotte Foundation, whose focus centers around LACs as institutions and the direction they are heading towards over time. Questions such as:

Wonder where Liberal Arts is going as an idea?
Interested in the wide landscape of higher education at these challenging times?
Thinking about structural inequality in higher education?

are relevant to issues these students are facing and can be used as a springboard from which to discuss resources that may be offered to improve the quality of life for students at Swarthmore College.

Again, this strategic priority focuses more on expanding the network from which resources can be pooled and utilized for students.

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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

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Cassandra Stone 

Lamia Makkar

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

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= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)''

The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote student and faculty innovation alike.
These include:

''CPSC 016SR (a student-run computer science course)- Critical Theory of Technology''

A historical lens is used to explore and understand how the use of technology exacerbates inequalities around the world and what can be done to control its direction.

''PEAC014 (a peace and conflict studies course)- Systems Thinking for Social Change''

The ecosystems by which problems in particular communities form are analyzed; a systematic approach is used to promote the "greatest social impact" through "social innovation solutions" to these problems.

''ENGR 053 (an engineering course)- Inclusive Engineering Design''

Universal design, human-centered design, and critical design approaches are explored as they relate to how they can be applied to existing technologies and projects in society that place particular groups and communities at a disadvantage.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:55:17Z

Jackiele4311: /* Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote student and faculty innovation alike.
These include:

''CPSC 016SR (a student-run computer science course)- Critical Theory of Technology''

A historical lens is used to explore and understand how the use of technology exacerbates inequalities around the world and what can be done to control its direction.

''PEAC014 (a peace and conflict studies course)- Systems Thinking for Social Change''

The ecosystems by which problems in particular communities form are analyzed; a systematic approach is used to promote the "greatest social impact" through "social innovation solutions" to these problems.

''ENGR 053 (an engineering course)- Inclusive Engineering Design''

Universal design, human-centered design, and critical design approaches are explored as they relate to how they can be applied to existing technologies and projects in society that place particular groups and communities at a disadvantage.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:39:18Z

Jackiele4311: /* Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:39:06Z

Jackiele4311: /* Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''

This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''

This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

''Project Pericles''

This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''

This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''

As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''

In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:37:58Z

Jackiele4311: /* Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''180 Degrees Consulting'''
This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

'''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility'''
This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

'''Project Pericles'''
This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

'''Chester Community Fellowship'''
This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

'''Dare 2 Soar'''
As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

'''Impact Challenge'''
In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:37:26Z

Jackiele4311: /* Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

''180 Degrees Consulting''
This is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''
This center is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

'''Project Pericles'''
This program empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

''Chester Community Fellowship''
This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''
As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''
In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
{{CatTree|Swarthmore_College}}

School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:35:25Z

Jackiele4311: /* Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts */

= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

Firstly, '''180 Degrees Consulting''' is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

Secondly, the '''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''' is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

'''Project Pericles''' empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

''Chester Community Fellowship''
This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''
As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

''Impact Challenge''
In promoting design thinking, human-centered design, and lean start-ups to address issues in Philadelphia, a day-long sprint is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL), the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), and educators from the Malvern Preparatory School.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
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School:Swarthmore College

2021-09-20T02:30:58Z

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= [[File:Lang-center.jpg|frame]]Introduction =

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need. It is also decidedly global in outlook, drawing students from around the world and all 50 states. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff - including different viewpoints, identities, and histories - contributes to the community's strong sense of open dialogue and engagement with ideas and issues.”

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

''Center for Innovation & Leadership (CIL)'' The CIL's mission is to engage innovative thinking to foster student leadership practice. According to their website, the CIL "provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. ... The CIL strives to give all Swarthmore students the individualized support they need to become strong imaginative leaders of tomorrow. We support students by creating opportunities to hone their leadership skills in capacities like team-based collaboration, the development of social and cultural capital, and inventive thinking processes." This is done through resources available to students developing projects as well as event series that promote innovation and leadership.

''Social Innovation Lab''

The Social Innovation Lab is housed at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, and is an on-site “makerspace” that provides students, faculty, staff, and community partners with room to grow. The space promotes design thinking and tools for prototyping ideas. This center works closely with the Center for Innovation and Leadership (above) and resources that come out of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship (below).

''Swat Tank''

Swat Tank, an idea competition, focuses on an inclusive model, one that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. However, SwatTank is more than just a competition; it is a chance to transform the ideas you think and dream about into a business or social enterprise.

''Lang Opportunity Scholarship''

The Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS) Program each year selects members of Swarthmore’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and co-curricular achievement, leadership qualities, and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. This program offers a diverse range of benefits including a $10,000 grant, a designated adviser, and networking opportunities to support the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.

''Haverford Innovations Program''

In collaboration with the CIL at Swarthmore, The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities. Students need to apply to attend this 8 week summer incubator program.

''Community-Based Learning Initiatives (CBL) '' Coursework that bridges the liberal arts curriculum and civic service serve at the core of Swarthmore's commitment to educating students on becoming lifelong learners. Many courses throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences divisions of the college offer classes that incorporate a community service extension of the course that brings students to local community organizations to apply their classwork to serving the greater community.

''The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program''

This provides Swarthmore students with the opportunity to study the consequences of the mass-incarceration epidemic. Over the course of 14 weeks, “insider” students from the prison system in Chester, Pa., and Swarthmore student “outsiders” are tasked with creating and researching projects and programs that could tangibly help break the cycle of mass incarceration. 

RELG 10: African American Religions- Swarthmore students will learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination(a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus =

Because Swarthmore is a teaching rather than research based university, professors are encouraged to focus on students and classes rather than their own projects. Nevertheless, the Lang Visiting Professor, Denise Crossan, was a prime example of faculty entrepreneurship on campus. She worked on a social innovation map, which charts all kinds of entrepreneurial activities going on at Swarthmore. She also created a Swarthmore Social Innovation Lab and helped to spearhead the Presidential Sustainability Research Fellowship Program, which connects faculty and students over sustainability initiatives on campus. Denise was also the faculty advisor for the University Innovation Fellows chapter at Swarthmore.

There are also several student run courses that promote innovation, including CS16 (a computer science course) titled Critical Theory of Technology. Courses such as this one encourage student and faculty innovation alike.

= University Techonology Transfer Function =

''Design Thinking Workshop''

The Design Thinking Workshop, through the Center for Innovation and Leadership, teaches students how to process design thinking and apply it to technological or entrepreneurial projects.

''Swat Tank''

SwatTank is an idea competition that provides students with the opportunity to take a rough idea, product, or concept and develop it towards its next incarnation, ideation, or realization. The process has student teams working on developing their ideas and projects by attending workshops, programs, or meeting with staff before putting together an official pitch.

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

''Center for Innovation and Leadership trip to San Francisco''

The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) at Swarthmore seeks to build capacity for entrepreneurship and leadership, by fostering collaboration and innovation while promoting experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. One of the ways the CIL implements its mission, is a fully funded 6-day intensive trip to San Francisco. During this trip, a group of ten students visit Swarthmore alumni at major companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The tech-oriented nature of the trip, allows students to engage with a variety of entrepreneurs in start-up, venture capital, and tech communities.

''Externship Program (SwatWorks)'

Swarthmore’s externship program allows students to participate in a one-week shadowing experience with alumni, which in turn gives a glimpse into specific careers. The externships offered encompass a variety of different sectors, and provide students with the ability to learn from, and connect with alumni that are experts in their respective fields.

''Swarthmore Future Entrepreneurs Program''

Curated internships at local start up companies through a partnership with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Students (seniors and alumni are ineligible) can apply to posted internships and interview with participating start-up companies. If selected, students will gain experience working for a start up while gaining insight into the entrepreneurial world while receiving a $4800 stipend for 10 weeks of full-time work.

''180 Degrees Consulting''

180 Degrees Consulting is a club that aims to develop strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills in its members. It is run entirely by students to bring high-quality and affordable consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

Firstly, '''180 Degrees Consulting''' is a national student consulting group that offers free consulting services to nonprofits. A selected few students at Swarthmore are trained to support startups and nonprofits in various fields from education to healthcare with consulting services. These startups and nonprofits can be located all over the US and students carry weekly meetings with their management teams to provide their services.

Secondly, the '''Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility''' is heading Swarthmore’s Regional and Local Economic Development. The mission of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility is to connect “curriculum, campus and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action.” Not only does it provide students with engagement, counseling, and networking opportunities for action outside of Swarthmore College, but it also provides students with funding opportunities that can last beyond a summer project. The most prominent example is Project Pericles.

'''Project Pericles''' empowers students to take on “social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students' motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.” It offers grants of up to $25, 000 for regional, national, or international projects. Some of the Project Pericles awardees went on to develop sustainable eyewear in Iran or implement geospatial analysis tools to increase wider scope food security in the Philadelphia area.

However, outside of the Lang Center for Social and Civic Responsibility and 180 Degrees Consulting, there are no concrete technology/industrial/wet lab spaces nor outside Lang Center financing opportunities (i.e. VC, angels) that encourage and support grassroot student commercialized enterprises/projects to continue and pivot over a 3 to 10 year span.

''Chester Community Fellowship''
This program is one of many funded through the Lang Center where selected interns work on a project in the City of Chester in collaboration with a Chester-based organization. Chester county is recognized to be one of the most underserved communities in the area. The goal is to develop a "scholar, civic leader, and public servant" out of these students.

''Dare 2 Soar''
As an initially student-run organization funded through the Lang Center, the group has grown to help hundreds of kids in the Chester county area by providing tutoring. This includes assisting them with their academics and teaching important life skills by allowing Swarthmore students to act as role models for them.

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-gsq3uYdZY&feature=youtu.be Entrepreneur in Residence Program at Swarthmore College]

2019 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Christopher_Gaeta|Christopher Gaeta]]

[[Emma_Parker_Miller|Emma Parker Miller]]

[[Ray_Sidener|Ray Sidener]]

[[Nancy_Yuan|Nancy Yuan]]

2018 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hanan_Ahmed Hanan Ahmed]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cassandra_Stone Cassandra Stone] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lamia_Makkar Lamia Makkar]

2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows

[[Michelle Ma]]

[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]

[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]

[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Swarthmore_College]]
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Hi authors of this page,

I found the title of this page intriguing because of "drone innovation." After reading the page, it got me thinking a lot about interdisciplinary this and that, how object can be used as a springboard for going into other topics and concepts. In this case, the object being the drone, is not only used as a springboard, but seems to be a foundation from which many subjects will build from. This looks like a fun and engaging approach to take on designing a course and I want you to know it is inspiring me to look at projects in this way now when applying design thinking and academic fields together. Thank you! :)

Jackie

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2021-08-26T07:22:38Z

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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

Questbridge Scholar

First-generation college student
==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
[[Category:Swarthmore College (2021 cohort)]]
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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

Questbridge Scholar

First-generation college student
==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

Instagram: @p0etle

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
[[Category:Swarthmore College (2021 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

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2021-08-26T00:43:32Z

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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

Questbridge ScholarFirst in immediate family to go to college
==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

Instagram: @p0etle

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
[[Category:Swarthmore College (2021 cohort)]]
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2021-08-26T00:40:19Z

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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

Instagram: @p0etle

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
[[Category:Swarthmore College (2021 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

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2021-08-26T00:39:53Z

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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

Instagram: @p0etle

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
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==Bio==

Jackie Le is a sophomore planning to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics at Swarthmore College. He lived most of his life in San Diego, California.

Having gone to a middle-high school meant for first-generation-low-income students of color, Jackie learned about community involvement, where in his senior year he and a few classmates organized a mural installation in their local park with the message of unity in diversity, representative of the community. There, he was able to get to know the locals better, who would talk to them about the mural during installation. As a result, he felt more connected to the community and would want to get more involved with other communities.

After taking a few education classes his freshman year, Jackie has recently been more interested in finding ways to better educate and engage people in their communities. In addition, how STEM can intersect with the humanities to increase student interest (still a very broad topic).

Living by “seek discomfort,” he is always trying to meet new people and experience new things, despite being quite introverted.

Still new to campus life, he plans to involve himself with campus life doing the things he enjoys to do in his free time: dance, photograph the world, go on a walk or run, play video games, and learn about maths.

He’s really excited to participate in UIF and have his first fully in-person college experience this fall semester. He believes design thinking, although still quite unsure what it 100% means, has applications for anything in life. :)

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==
Facebook: Jackie Le

Instagram: @p0etle

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-le-41a5b61b3
[[Category:Swarthmore College (2021 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

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==Bio==

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

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==Bio==

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

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