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Priorities:Berea College Student Priorities

2018-02-01T01:25:18Z

Juliaroberts:

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= Strategy#1  Expose students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Tactics#1.1 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Meet-up ==

'''Description:''' A 1-2 day conference event based in Berea College and free to all students, which will act as an introductory/exploratory course in I&E. The event will include panels, workshops, and discussions highlighting the application of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design Thinking to all disciplines. Students could network with innovators within their field, refine their critical thinking skills, and explore the varieties of entrepreneurship available. 

'''Milestones:'''

*Meet with the Dean and Faculty for partnerships and resources (Spring 2018)
*Establish a date and reach out to off-campus resources (Spring 2018)
*Format and organize panels, workshops, spaces and presenters (Summer 2018)
*Begin marketing to students and encouraging faculty participation (Fall 2018)
*Execute event and receive feedback (Fall 2018)
*Analyze event feedback and pivot (Winter 2018)

== Tactics#1.2 A Date With Design Thinking ==

'''Description:''' A Date With Design Thinking will be a quarterly one-hour long design thinking workshop series for interdisciplinary students. It is intended to familiarize and engage students with the concept of design thinking through a fun series of activities. This workshop is designed to not only expand I&E to a bigger audience on campus but to also engage them in addressing existing problems on campus.

'''Milestones:'''

*Launch A Date With Design Thinking series with a small scale workshop reaching 20 students (Spring 2016 - completed)

*Evaluate the success and failure of the workshop and review feedback of participants to revise the plan of the workshop (Spring 2016)

*Collaborate with different departments such as Dining Services, Café, Sustainability Department, TAD and Computer Science to address problems within the department and design workshops centered towards the issues discussed (Fall 2016)

*Continue series by organizing two workshops per semester (Fall 2017)

= Strategy#2 Create Opportunities for students to learn and experiment =

== Tactics# 2.1 PopUp Classes ==

'''Description: '''PopUp Classes is intended to be short and elective classes and workshops to provide curious students, innovators, problem-solvers and lifetime learnerswith vital soft skills in their toolbox. It is inspired by the interest and need of various innovative, entrepreneurial and practical skills such as blogging and web designing but a lack offlexible and informal environment to teach them in a brief time.

'''Milestones:'''

*Reach out to all clubs & organizations on campus to identify what their community is interested to learn (Mar 15, 2016)

*Develop a format or structure for PopUp Classes (Mar 30, 2016)

*Identify a list of students/faculty who would be interested in conducting the PopUps (Apr 10, 2016)

*Prototype first PopUp (April 15, 2016)

*Develop a strategy to continue offering PopUps once every two weeks ( May 10, 2016)

== Tactics# 2.2 Open Lab Days ==

'''Description:''' Open Lab Days are weekends, where the labs in the Physics and TAD departments (Technology and Applied Design Department) will be open at specific times Students would be given the chance to participate in laboratories on weekends such as  the Physics machine shop with the help of collaboration between the Society of Physics Students and Physics department. Similar collaborations would take place between the Tech club and the Technology department. This will help students from various departments to become more creative with their prototypes which will also encourage them to pursue STEM careers.

'''Milestones:'''

*Initiative to be discussed with Chairs of Physics, Chemistry, TAD department and Laboratory Assistants (March 2016)

*Create Open lab Schedules that accommodates TA’s presence (May 2016)

*Marketing to encourage student participation (August 2016)

= Strategy#3 Provide opportunities for students to test new ideas =

== Tactics#3.1 Idea Bounce ==

'''Description: '''Berea Innovation Studio (BIS)  hosts Idea Bounce every semester. Students from different majors participate in an idea pitch competition. Prior to the actual event, participants attend an hour workshop where they are trained to develop their idea and pitch. This competition was started by last year’s UIFs hunting for creativity and problem-solving skills across campus.    

'''Milestones:'''

*Recruit Judges and Sponsors for the competition (third week of each semester)

*Open submission for initial ideas and thoughts (fourth week of each semester)

*Evaluate the submitted ideas and provide feedback to the selected applicants (sixth week of each semester)

*Coach the applicants: How to pitch ideas in 2 minutes (seventh week of each semester)

*Hold Idea Bounce (eighth week of each semester)

== Tactics#3.2 Idea State U ==

'''Description:''' Idea State U is a Kentucky statewide business competition to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship by rewarding student teams from the Commonwealth’s colleges and universities,  Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program sponsors selected Berea College students to participate in this state idea competition. Students are coached by the director of EPG and guided throughout the whole process. One of the major achievements of past Berea college applicants was last year when a team of two freshman and one sophomore won the third place beating MBA students. This achievement is and will always be an inspiration and empowerment.

'''Milestones:'''

*Start with identifying the problems and recognizing opportunities (early February)

*Finalize Teams (mid-February)

*Organize weekly training sessions with Faculty Sponsor (mid-February - mid-March)

*Conduct customer discovery in order to gain empathy and develop business idea and plan (mid-February - mid-March)

*Participate in Idea State U (end of March)

*Winners follow up with the angel investors (early April)

== Tactics#3.3 StartUp Weekend Berea (New) ==

'''Description:''' Berea Innovation Studio (BIS), in collaboration with Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program, will launch StartUp Weekend Berea during the spring semester. It will be an interdisciplinary event, where participants will work in teams to come up with creative solutions to challenging real-world problems, identified by students. They will develop sustainable Business Models surrounding the solution. A series of workshops will be made available for students to learn and deepen their skills. The event will be gamified to make it also a fun activity.

'''Milestones:'''

*Identity interested facilitators and meet to finalize event date (Sep 2, 2016)

*Design the workshop and action plan (Sep 15, 2016)

*Prototype Startup Weekend Berea Model (Oct 15, 2016)

*Identify organizations and request for funding (Oct 30, 2016)

*Reach out to facilitators to lead different workshops (Oct 30, 2016)

*Devise a marketing campaign (Nov 10, 2016)

== Tactics#3.4 Inter-Departmental Prototyping Challenges ==

'''Description:''' Berea College has a lot of resources relevant to Innovation and Entrepreneurship on multiple levels. The problem is that those resources are not accessible to the campus at large and only students in taking classes in these departments have access to those. The inter-departmental prototyping challenges are a way to foster cross-collaboration between departments in a fun, engaging and insightful way. 

Idea State U is a Kentucky statewide business competition to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship by rewarding student teams from the Commonwealth’s colleges and universities,  Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program sponsors selected Berea College students to participate in this state idea competition. Students are coached by the director of EPG and guided throughout the whole process. One of the major achievements of past Berea college applicants was last year when a team of two freshman and one sophomore won the third place beating MBA students. This achievement is and will always be an inspiration and empowerment.

'''Milestones:'''

*Start with identifying the problems and recognizing opportunities (early February)

*Finalize Teams (mid-February)

*Organize weekly training sessions with Faculty Sponsor (mid-February - mid-March)

*Conduct customer discovery in order to gain empathy and develop business idea and plan (mid-February - mid-March)

*Participate in Idea State U (end of March)

*Winners follow up with the angel investors (early April)

= Strategy#4 Inspire students to pursue I&E =

== Tactics#4.1 Inspirational Talks ==

'''Description:''' To encourage students to pursue entrepreneurship we plan to hold TEDxBerea starting the Fall 2016 term. This will create excitement amongst students to learn the value of the entrepreneurial mindset while helping them understand the importance of failure, design thinking and prototyping.

'''Milestones:'''

*Talk to Dean/President to get permission (April 2016)

*TEDxBerea license application (April 2016)

*Pick the event type and brainstorm ideas for the program (May 2016)

*Logistic planning and fund allocation (June 2016)

*Choose a tentative date for the event (July 2016)

*Invite speakers (July 2016)

*Branding and marketing (August - September 2016)

= Related Links =

[[Berea College]]

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 University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ishwar Agarwal|Ishwar Agarwal]]

[[Bessaad Syrine]]

[[Minashsha Zareel Lamisa]]

[[Talha Rehman|Talha Rehman]]

Spring 2015:

[[Tran K. Nguyen]]

[[Dylan mullins]]

[[Jacob Heller]]

[[Eugeniu Prodan]]

[[Anthony Ayebiahwea]]

[[Robert Hosking]]

Spring 2014:

[[Ali Djire]]

[[Solomon Alolga]]

Ability Kakama

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School:Berea College

2018-01-25T02:30:21Z

Juliaroberts:

= OVERVIEW =

Berea is a private liberal arts college, in Berea, Kentucky that differentiates itself by its ‘free tuition’ promise,  its rigorous undergraduate and its labor programs. Founded as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, Berea admits only academically promising students, who have limited economic resources, especially students from Appalachia. All students at Berea work at least 10 hours per week in more than 130 departments and organizations on and off campus.

Entrepreneurship at Berea College has manifested itself in different academic and labor activities on campus such as the General Studies Program, Service-Learning Program, Active-Learning Experience. Most distinctively, the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) Program has been the leading department in educating students about entrepreneurship.

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= STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Academics ==

I&E is integrated into various coursework offered by the Agriculture and Natural Resources, Art, Business Administration, Communication, Computer Science, General Studies, Education, Sustainability and Environmental Studies, Technology and Applied Design and Theatre departments. All the courses are listed in the Berea College Landscape Canvas (link).

== Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) Program ==

*'''EPG Summer Institute: '''The EPG Summer Institute is an 8-week entrepreneurial leadership program at Berea College. Each summer, a cohort of 20 students are selected through a competitive application process to participate in the program. The Summer Institute has a distinctive teaching approach; it focuses on the EPG Cycle of Abilities for Entrepreneurial Leadership: engaging complexity and uncertainty, exploring values and ethical structures, facilitating group decisions, recognizing opportunity, mobilizing resources and advocating for change. From the program, the cohort gains extensive knowledge on social entrepreneurship through coursework and hands-on experience by implementing the Cycle of Abilities in local communities in the Appalachia.

*'''Business Competitions: '''The EPG department provides students with the opportunity to attend regional and national business and social entrepreneurial competitions. Dr. Peter Hackbert, the director of the program, provides mentoring and guidance to students at different levels of the process of how to create a business from an idea/problem. Following are the business competitions/opportunities student can partake in:
**Idea State U
**Collegiate
**Harvard ABC
**Clinton Global Initiative

*'''StartUp Weekend and Other I&E Engagement: '''The EPG department creates the opportunity for all students to attend various events and conferences that promote innovation, entrepreneurship and social change all around the US. The department is unique is sponsoring all student costs for attending these events.
**StartUp Weekend – Lexington and Louisville
**VentureWell Open Conference
**Ashoka U Exchange
**Sullivan Foundation Ignite Retreats

== Berea Innovation Studio ==

Berea Innovation Studio (BIS) is a club organization at Berea College with the mission of inspiring an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit among all Berea College students by creating an environment that nurtures the innovative energy and entrepreneurial mindset. It is a platform for students to learn and practice the concepts of I&E through interaction with peers on idea generation, prototype creation, and startup launch. It strives to engage all students in its activities, programs, and events, and thus, make a mark as one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial colleges in the US. The current activities, programs, and events are as following: 

'''I''''''dea Bounce: '''Idea Bounce is the first business idea pitch competition among interdisciplinary students in Berea College. It is designed to help students develop and pitch an idea, receive feedback and earn prize money. It was launched in Spring 2015 by UIF Cohort 2014 and is organized once every semester. Local and regional entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders have been invited as Judges of Idea Bounce in the past.

'''Local Hack Day: '''Local Hack day was organized as an incentive to engage the campus and the community into the mindset of coming together and solving a problem in electronics or computer science for 12 hours, without any prior knowledge in coding. It was organized for the first time in December 2017 and brought together about two dozens of students.

'''Campus Challenges: '''The campus challenges are designed to interact with students on the campus and engage them in prototyping and thinking about creative ways of solving challenges through making tangible things.

= FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =

In the circle of academics, faculty often find themselves repeating what they have done and are comfortable with - highly academic settings with work that doesn't allow for creativity and innovation. We propose to educate faculty by utilizing the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program and the Work on Purpose program which is currently used by Dr. Peter Hackbert in the 8-week (now 6-week) Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program to teach the cohorts about the entrepreneurial mindset. This would instill in the faculty and staff ideas about how to implement entrepreneurial thinking in each of their respective disciplines, thus changing the way the student body thinks.

Though change is never easy, these simple programs do a fantastic job of exposing the entrepreneurial mindset for what it is. In order to create an environment suitable for students to create, innovate, and potentially launch startups, their mentors and educators must first have said mindset to aid them in their journey.

= UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION =

Berea College is committed to providing an environment that supports the learning, teaching, scholarship, and creative activity of its faculty, students, and staff. While there isn’t a tech transfer office, there are other resources that will help students shift their student research or idea to a commercial business. All the administrative work that is related to commercialization or patenting of an idea created by faculty, and/or student is handled by the vice president of Academics and the Dean of Faculty.

“Within this context, the Intellectual Property Rights Policy is intended to:

*encourage excellence and innovation in teaching, scholarship, and creative activities by identifying and protecting the intellectual property rights of faculty, staff, students, and the College;
*encourage the notion that creative and scholarly works produced at Berea College should advance the state of knowledge and contribute to the public good;
*acknowledge and preserve the traditional property rights of scholars with respect to products of their intellectual endeavors (e.g., books, articles, manuscripts, plays, writings, musical scores, and works of art); and
*guide policy and process for commercial uses of intellectual property other than the traditional products of scholarly work.

 This Policy covers all types of intellectual property, including, in particular, works protected by copyright, patent, and trade secret laws. Although the following list is not exhaustive, it provides examples of the kinds of work the Policy addresses: inventions, discoveries, trade secrets, trade and service marks, writings, art works, musical compositions and performances, software, literary works, and architecture.” ("[http://catalog.berea.edu/2013-2014/Faculty-Manual/Selected-Institution-Wide-Policies/Intellectual-Property-Rights-Policy Intellectual Property Rights Policy]." Berea College)

= UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION =

'''Berea College Office of Career Development '''has partnerships with several companies for students to increase various career development. It hosts several programs such as the yearly '''''career fair''''' that brings outside industries in to recruit students for both internships and full-time positions. It also organizes various events throughout the year to prepare students for internships and life after graduation, such as '''''Cornell Weekend'''''. Cornell Weekend is an event where MBA students from Cornell University come to Berea College for a weekend and meet with students to help them with their resumes and practice interviews with them. It also provides students with funding for various career development opportunities and graduate school endeavors like funds for professional clothing, grants for graduate school application and travel, for job interviews, and attending professional conferences.

= REGIONAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS =

== Recognizing opportunity and advocating for change ==

The Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program selects twenty promising and competent Berea College students to participate in an 8-week summer institute. EPG cohorts focus on creating a more sustainable economy mobilizing the area's resources: Adventure tourism industry.  Cohort 12 submitted the Berea Trail Town application to the state of Kentucky as a project to boost Berea’s local economy. On November 10th 2015, Berea was officially certified as a Kentucky Trail Town. In fact,  Berea’s Trail town approval was one of the fastest processes thanks to the cascading model adopted by EPG program.  

== Leadership and civic engagement ==

The Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service department is home to more than 8 community-service programs led by students. The college partners with local nonprofit organizations in order to benefit the local community through service programs. Students manage student volunteers for on and off-campus events. Student volunteers get the chance to apply their academic knowledge and critical thinking skills to meet genuine community needs. Through reflection and assessment, students gain the deeper understanding of the importance of civic engagement.

Programs Offered:

*Berea Buddies
*Berea Teen Mentoring
*Adopt a Grandparent
*Habitat for Humanity
*The Hispanic Outreach Project
*People Who Care
*Berea Tutoring
*Service Learning
*Community Partnerships
*Bonner Scholars

= Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pFB3mAVfATLtQX7OAcY4OWUp8LS943qGYSfS4a8WGYU/edit#gid=4 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet]

= Related Links =

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[[Berea College Student Priorities]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2018:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andreea_Teban Andreea Teban]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts Kayla Barbour]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kayla_barbour Julia Roberts]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodney_Kimbangu Rodney Kimbangu]

Spring 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Ishwar%20Agarwal Ishwar Agarwal]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Bessaad%20Syrine Bessaad Syrine]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Minashsha%20Zareel%20Lamisa Minashsha Zareel Lamisa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Talha%20Rehman Talha Rehman]

Spring 2015:

[[Tran K. Nguyen]]

[[Dylan mullins]]

[[Jacob Heller]]

[[Eugeniu Prodan]]

[[Anthony Ayebiahwea]]

[[Robert Hosking]]

Spring 2014:

[[Ali Djire]]

[[Solomon Alolga]]

Ability Kakama

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:58:31Z

Juliaroberts:

Julia Roberts is a University Innovation Fellow and current Business Administration Major, Sustainability and Environment Minor at Berea College. She intends to become the administrator of a non-profit [[File:JuliaPicture 1.jpg|thumb]]organization in order to create a meaningful and sustainable change in society. Roberts, originally from Ohio, has a history of working in the higher education industry, as well as a variety of service agencies, including the Boy Scouts of America and Sustainable Berea. Through her work in the Boy Scouts, she has experience in leadership training and development, program and project management, and communication coordination. As the office manager of Sustainable Berea, she organizes social media, programming, grants, and outreach for the local nonprofit. 

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:56:23Z

Juliaroberts:

Julia Roberts is a University Innovation Fellow and current Business Administration Major, Sustainability and Environment Minor at Berea College. She intends to become the administrator of a non-profit [[File:JuliaPicture 1.jpg|thumb|JuliaPicture 1.jpg]]organization in order to create a meaningful and sustainable change in society. Roberts, originally from Ohio, has a history of working in the higher education industry, as well as a variety of service agencies, including the Boy Scouts of America and Sustainable Berea. Through her work in the Boy Scouts, she has experience in leadership training and development, program and project management, and communication coordination. As the office manager of Sustainable Berea, she organizes social media, programming, grants, and outreach for the local nonprofit. 

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:54:23Z

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:50:01Z

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:46:05Z

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Fellow:Julia Roberts

2018-01-10T23:44:38Z

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2018-01-10T23:40:48Z

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