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Priorities:Ohio Northern University Student Priorities

2019-10-23T11:58:07Z

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= Overview =

Ohio Northern University is an independent university in Ada, Ohio. ONU is known for their undergraduate education experience with research being the foundation to ONU's experiential education. The unique collaboration between professors and students in research yields countless opportunities for progress, as well as, opportunity for innovation. The two key components missing between the colleges on ONU's campus to catalyze a greater level of innovation and entrepreneurship are communication and collaboration. The following proposed strategies will create a greater awareness of I & E on campus. 

Listed below are the priorities and tactics all University Innovation Fellows from Ohio Northern have conceptualized in their processes. These are included to show the progression and history of the UIF program at ONU. 

= Project Pitch Video =

Spring 2019

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Spring 2016

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Spring 2015

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= Strategy #1: Help Students Understand Why Failure is Important =

Some students feel as if they are set up to fail in certain small projects in their Foundations of Design Class. The purpose of these projects is to help students understand why failure is important. Even after students were told about this purpose, they still did not feel as if they had learned anything from this.

== Tactic #1: Create an Assignment for New Students to Help Them Fully Understand the Importance of Failure ==

Step 1: Just like in previous years, give student a small project to complete during class in which the instructions do not have enough information to complete the project succesfully, resulting in many students' failure. 

Step 2: After their initial failure, have students complete a reading assignment or attend a presentation on the importance of failure. Have the students refelct and give examples of why failure is important in their future careers. 

Step 3: Give students a second project which is similar to the initial project. After learning about why failure is important, students will be more likely to ask the important questions needed to finish the project successfully.

= Strategy #2: Help Students to Manage their Time =

Many college student an adult fail to manage their time. as a result, they fall behind in their work, feel stressed, and don't complete tasks to the best of their ability. The purpose of this project to to teach students how to view the time that they have, analyze what needs to get done, and acomplish those tasks using skilled they've learned.

== Tactic #1: ''Time Management Workshop'' ==

In this event, students will attend a workshop that will go throught the steps of effectively managing time. This workshop can be a held by the library or professional student organizations.

Those that attend the workshop will recieve an excel spreed sheet with tabs that can be printed to help organize their schedule and priorities.

== Tactic #2: ''Time Management in First Year Engineering Orientation Class'' ==

In this event, lession on how to manage time will be available to first-year Engineering Orientation classes with a weekly homework assigment due until the end of the semester. It would be to plan out the week which would be due that monday and a record of what actually was done due at the end of the week. It would be a completion grade that will help the student to be more concious of their time and organize themselves.

= Strategy #3: Create opportunities for efficient communication across campus (Spring 2017 and Fall 2019) =

<span style="font-size:medium">Numerous faculty and students have expressed a lack of a college to college communication which is a large inhibitor to the channel of progress. The colleges should have seamless communication of research, opportunities, and ideas between them leaving an opportunity for multidisciplinary collaboration.</span>

== Tactic #1: Hold Meetings Between Active Professors and Students from all Departments<br/> ==

<span style="font-size: 12px">Meeting 1: <font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 12.84px">The first meeting will be just to identify the needs of each college and what they want help accomplishing. We can achieve this by doing brainstorming activities and spending time talking one on one. The most important part of the first meeting is that everyone becomes comfortable identifying the needs and desires of their department. After needs have been identified we can split into groups and all work on solutions to the problems presented</span></font></span>

'''Meeting 2: After spending time working on solutions, each group will present their solution to the whole group. This will not only help us fulfill the needs of all departments but it will also build relationships across the college of students and professors from various colleges.'''

Meeting 3:  Once the solutions have been presented to the whole group, everyone will be able to vote on which one is the best solution, and if there are two, both can and will be implemented to help solve each department's problem(s).

These meetings will then continue between the active professors and students continually improving the college experience for everyone all while solving the problems departments cannot face on thier own.

== Tactic #2: Roleplay different Student to Teacher and Student to Student Scenarios ==
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Role playing and Skits! - Do with students in small groups!</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scenarios involving interactions with other Teachers and Students</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student to Teacher</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Help Understanding problem</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conflict with Another Student</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improving Grade</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student to Student</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asking to study together without it seeming weird</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asking another student for help</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask the Big Questions</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What worked?</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why did it work?</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What didn’t work?</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What could you improve so it can?</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7450c7a9-7fff-19ec-ccf7-9f5d205ee462"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards, follow up with an email poll to see how helpful it was, and what other questions topics might need to be discussed</span></span></li>
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= Strategy #4: use interdisciplinary relationships to spread I&E campus wide (Spring 2017 & 2019) =

<span style="font-size:medium">Many students have expressed their desire to actually participate in more activities that provide a greater experience related to not only their major, but other majors as well. The Landscape Canvas revealed current opportunities available for interdisciplinary collaboration through KEEN events, senior capstones, EPICS, and student clubs. The canvas also revealed areas where new opportunities must be created in order to support students in their ideas and untapped potential in innovation. Learning about how to effectively tie in other disciplines on-campus is key to generating momentum needed for innovation.</span>

== Tactic #1: Creating Interdisciplinary workshops/classes ==

<span style="font-size:medium">Event 1:  In this event professors from different colleges will work together to build the curriculum for a class or workshop. For example, in a drafting class for the technology department a professor might work with a colleague from the art college to learn different techniques of making technical drawings more aesthetically pleasing. The tech college could even have the art professor in to teach on this topic.</span>

== Tactic #2: Encourage more awareness and participation for KEEN Challenges and ION ideation ==

<span style="font-size:medium">ONU currently hosts KEEN Innovation challenges on a semester basis. The KEEN Challenges are centered on a different challenge each time requiring the application of innovation with the supplied materials students need to complete the presented challenge. The KEEN Innovation challenges are a great introduction to innovation for students on campus. The challenges will be utilized as the gateway for students gaining an understanding of innovation. An ONU group, ION, currently holds Ideation sessions focused on helping students tap into their creative side to design space and furniture for the college. These Ideation sessions can be very helpful in fostering I&E and are severely under utilized.</span>

== Tactic #3: Generating more participation in the EPICS Program by offering general education tags with the course ==

<span style="font-size:medium">The EPICS program currently allows students to apply engineering principles in community service locally and internationally. But, too often students have to take other courses that will fulfill their general education requirments and will not have the option to take the EPICS course. If these courses could be embedded with interdisciplinary education then General Tags could be created allowing more students to take these courses.</span>

== Tactic #4: Working with professors to create more interdisciplinary projects ==

<span style="font-size:medium;">Much like Tatic #1, this tatic creates workshops/classes by informing other departments with how to better meet some of the other departments' needs. However, instead of only informing each department, each department will create a cross disciplinary project for the students to complete during the school year that will make sure that two different departments work side-by-side completing and meeting a need/task.  The increase in interaction between the various departments by meeting a need will stengthen the relationship between them.</span>

= Strategy #5: Creating how-to events that utilize any resources on campus (Spring 2017) =

<span style="font-size:medium">Many students expressed their desire for being more familiar with applications or resources that are available to them. Additionally, students of all majors can partake in these events. For example, a chemistry student interested in engineering could learn about engineering related software applications, theory etc. The goal is to create a program on campus that makes every possible resource available to students. This will make them better equipped to not only exceed the university's standards, but also make great strides in professional experience at an undergraduate level.</span>

== '''Tactic #1: Provide monthly workshops where students can learn about various resources and tools''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium">These monthly workshops, will teach students about software and resources used for their majors, as well as, software/resources that other majors use. Within these workshops, experiential learning will be the driving force in ensuring that students feel confident enough to take their knowledge to the next step in implementing their ideas to actual projects.</span>

== Tactic #2: Advertising professional speakers at ONU to the student body ==

<span style="font-size:medium">Countless professionals come to Ohio Northern and speak with students. Often, these speaking events have low turn out. The goal is to get students and faculty together to brainstorm ways in which the vast majority of students will be aware of the speakers and understand the value of these speaking events. This tactic will also be a networking opportunity for both students and professionals.</span>

= Strategy #6: Create a mentor program for the University Innovation Fellows Program on-campus (Spring 2018) =

== Tactic #1: Connecting current fellows with new students ==

<span style="font-size:medium">In order to keep the momentum of the University Innovation Fellows Program on-campus, current fellows should have at least one mentee that is an academic year or more lower than them. In these mentee relationships, it will be the responsibility of the fellow to share knowledge and resources that the underclassman fellow will need to make an impact during their time here, while also keeping the program active. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, the mentors will share their resources and past experiences in order to help the new Fellows increase the effectiveness of the UIF group on campus.</span>

= Initial Projects of Focus (Spring 2016 & Spring 2018) =

<span style="font-size:medium">As a team, we plan to convert the Tinker Lab into a maker space that is able to not only better serve the engineering students, but also begin serving all students. Also, we plan to create more study friendly spaces around the entire campus, not only one college and not only inside, we plan to create a study space outside avaliable for everyone whenever they need/want it. This new study space will also double as a relaxing space for on-campus organizations to hold meetings outside as well. Additionally, we plan on starting a YouTube channel that highlights the work of innovators and changemakers on campus in order to raise the profile of innovators on campus and to generate excitement for innovation. We plan on creating effective ways for promoting KEEN and exactly what KEEN's goals are. We also hope to promote KEEN events at a greater level. Currently, our campus hosts KEEN Innovation Challenges each semester that introduce students to innovation through a series of new challenges. Secondly, we will work with the T.J. Smull College of Engineering to establish the Grand Challenge Scholars Program on-campus. Currently, the college of engineering has the EPICS program which gives students an opportunity for experiential learning and earn credit towards their coursework. We hope to pair the GCSP with the EPICS  program. We will also conduct research to see if EPICS can be taken by non-engineering majors, as well as, seeing if the EPICS courses can count as a general education requirement that can help students meet their core requirements, while having the opportunity to practice innovation and entrepreneurship. Lastly, We plan on establishing the UIF mentor program to recruit future UIF candidates and ensure that the momentum the University Innovation Fellows Program has on Ohio Northern's campus continues. Once, ONU has a team of UIF fellows from all of the colleges, the other projects mentioned in the previous sections can be enacted.</span>

= Strategy #7: Create more cross-disciplinary interactions throughout the campus (Spring 2019) =

==== Tactic #1: Outdoor Study Space<br/> ====

<span style="font-size:medium">Creating an </span><span style="font-size:medium">outdoor study space for students in a local area is much needed on ONU's campus. Creating more spaces to study that are not in the academic buildings we believe will add more interactions of different majors. </span>

==== <span style="font-size:medium"> Tactic #2: Bucketlist Wall</span><br/> ====

<span style="font-size:medium">A </span><span style="font-size:medium">bucket-list</span><span style="font-size:medium">wall in </span><span style="font-size:medium">Macintosh, the student center of campus, would help connect students outside of their major with other students who share similar interests that are not related to academics. These connections will then be fostered with group meetings.</span>

==== <span style="font-size:medium">Tactic #3: Pop-Up Classes</span><br/> ====

<span style="font-size:medium">Pop-Up Classes that promote I&E would be a great addition to Ohio Northern's Campus. We would really be focusing on getting all majors involved by having different professors teach the classes. Getting professors from different departments such as; engineering, art, business, music, etc. would really promote the cross-disciplinary interactions we are looking for.</span>

==== <span style="font-size:medium">Tactic #4: Updating the current ONU App</span><br/> ====

<span style="font-size:medium">The current ONU App is only used for looking at class rosters. In order to improve this app for the students we believed we needed a platform where they could interact on a campus wide level without the interruption of emails. This could be a way students can reach out for rides or other group activities and connect with those they may otherwise not interact with.</span>

= Related Links =

[[Ohio Northern University|Campus Overview]]

'''Fall 2019:'''

[[Andrew Bergmann|'''Andrew_Bergmann''']]

[[Katelyn Keckler|'''Katelyn_Keckler''']]

[[Matthew Opara|'''Matthew_Opara''']]

[[Cassandra Stuber|'''Cassandra_Stuber''']]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Todd Federici|Todd Federici]]

[[Brittney Masters|Brittney Masters]]

[[Will Sierzputowski|Will Sierzputowski]]

[[Anne Major|Anne Major]]

'''Spring 2018:'''

[[User:Matthew Walker|Matthew Walker]]

[[User:G-snelling|Georgia Snelling]]

Kenton Jarvis

[[User:Connorphull|Connor Hull]]

[[User:M-schweinefuss|Matthew Schweinefuss]]

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jared%20Emerson Jared Emerson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jeanne%20Graessle Jeanne Graessle]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Dan%20Musci Dan Musci]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Cheyenne%20Raker Cheyenne Raker]

'''Spring 2016:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Adam%20Berry Adam Berry]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Nathan%20Craft Nathan Craft]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Szczerba Jonathan Szczerba]

'''Spring 2015:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Alexandra%20Seda Alexandra Seda]

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Fellow:Matthew Opara

2019-10-22T12:19:32Z

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-04b07c9e-7fff-f69f-825f-b45b902ade76"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew Opara is a Computer Science Major & Computer Engineering Major With Concentrations in Robotics. He has always loved building things and figuring out how things work. That passion has been a driving factor in his life since he was young, pushing him to join engineering clubs, build gadgets, and eventually start his college path at Ohio Northern University. He is always looking for things to fuel that passion and keep him racing towards innovation.</span></span>
<p style="text-align: center;">[[File:MattOpara.JPG]]</p><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ohio%20Northern%20University Ohio_Northern_University]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ohio%20Northern%20University%20Student%20Priorities Ohio_Northern_University_Student_Priorities]</div><div>'''Fall 2019:'''</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Bergmann <b>Andrew_Bergmann</b>]<br/></div><div>''''''Matthew_Opara''''''<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Katelyn_Keckler <b><i>Katelyn_Keckler</i></b>]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Cassandra%20Stuber <b>Cassandra_Stuber</b>]<br/></div><div>'''Fall 2018:'''</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Anne%20Major Anne_Major]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Brittney%20Masters Brittney_Masters]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Todd%20Federici Todd_Federici]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Will%20Sierzputowski Will_Sierzputowski]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''Spring 2018:'''<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Connor%20Hull Connor_Hull]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Kenton%20Jarvis Kenton_Jarvis]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Matthew%20Walker Matthew_Walker]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/M-schweinefuss M-schweinefuss]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/G-snelling G-snelling]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''Spring 2017:'''</div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jared%20Emerson Jared_Emerson]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jeanne%20Graessle Jeanne_Graessle]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/%2FDan.musci /Dan.musci]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Cheyenne%20Raker Cheyenne_Raker]'''<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Spring 2016:<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Adam%20Berry Adam_Berry]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Nathan%20Craft Nathan_Craft]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Szczerba Jonathan_Szczerba]'''<br/></div>
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<div>Spring 2015:</div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Alexandra%20V.%20SedaAlexandra%20V.%20Seda Alexandra V. SedaAlexandra V. Seda]'''</div>

Fellow:Matthew Opara

2019-10-22T12:16:15Z

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-04b07c9e-7fff-f69f-825f-b45b902ade76"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew Opara is a Computer Science Major & Computer Engineering Major With Concentrations in Robotics. He has always loved building things and figuring out how things work. That passion has been a driving factor in his life since he was young, pushing him to join engineering clubs, build gadgets, and eventually start his college path at Ohio Northern University. He is always looking for things to fuel that passion and keep him racing towards innovation.</span></span>
<p style="text-align: center;">[[File:MattOpara.JPG]]</p><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ohio%20Northern%20University Ohio_Northern_University]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ohio%20Northern%20University%20Student%20Priorities Ohio_Northern_University_Student_Priorities]</div><div>'''Fall 2019:'''</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Bergmann '''Andrew_Bergmann''']<br/></div><div>''''''Katelyn_Keckler''''''<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Matthew%20Opara '''Matthew_Opara''']<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Cassandra%20Stuber '''Cassandra_Stuber''']<br/></div><div>'''Fall 2018:'''</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Anne%20Major Anne_Major]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Brittney%20Masters Brittney_Masters]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Todd%20Federici Todd_Federici]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Will%20Sierzputowski Will_Sierzputowski]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''Spring 2018:'''<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Connor%20Hull Connor_Hull]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Kenton%20Jarvis Kenton_Jarvis]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/Matthew%20Walker Matthew_Walker]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/M-schweinefuss M-schweinefuss]<br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/G-snelling G-snelling]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''Spring 2017:'''</div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jared%20Emerson Jared_Emerson]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jeanne%20Graessle Jeanne_Graessle]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/%2FDan.musci /Dan.musci]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Cheyenne%20Raker Cheyenne_Raker]'''<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Spring 2016:<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Adam%20Berry Adam_Berry]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Nathan%20Craft Nathan_Craft]'''<br/></div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Szczerba Jonathan_Szczerba]'''<br/></div>
'''<div<br/></div>'''
<div>Spring 2015:</div><div>'''[http://universityinnovation.org/Alexandra%20V.%20SedaAlexandra%20V.%20Seda Alexandra V. SedaAlexandra V. Seda]'''</div>

Fellow:Matthew Opara

2019-10-18T05:21:43Z

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Priorities:Ohio Northern University Student Priorities

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School:Ohio Northern University

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= <span style="font-size:large">'''<span style="font-size:xx-large">Overview </span>                                                                     '''</span> =

'''[[File:ONU image 1.JPG|frame|right]]'''

<span style="font-size:medium">Ohio Northern University is an independent university located in Ada, Ohio. The school has 3,088 students representing 38 states and 23 countries. A trait unique to ONU is the “one to one” relationship between students and professors. The reputation for ONU’s strong bond between the student body and the professors is attributed to the 11:1 student/faculty ratio. Ohio Northern University strives to provide students with the best faculty which is why 86% of ONU’s full time faculty have a Ph.D. or a terminal degree. ONU is nationally ranked for the sciences, arts, and professional programs in the following colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Pharmacy and Law. It has led to an astounding 95% placement rate within six months of graduation in all colleges.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium">More can be found at:</span>[http://www.onu.edu/about http://www.onu.edu/about]

 

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= <span style="font-size:xx-large">'''Mission, Vision, and Core Values'''</span> =
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: medium">Ohio Northern University’s core values include: collaboration, community, diversity, excellence, faith, integrity, and service. ONU strives to be a unique educational institution that cultivates academic excellence at the undergraduate level. Each of Northern’s colleges promote undergraduate research and experiential learning. The T.J. Smull College of Engineering implements experiential, hands-on learning in part due to small class sizes. Their mission statement is “to engage students through personal relationships and high-impact educational experiences to maximize their success”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:medium">ONU 2021 is Northern’s strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees to further Northern’s momentum of success. The plan demonstrates ONU’s strategic direction and focus on goals to be improved upon or accomplished by 2021. The strategic goals and priorities seek to advance ONU at all levels and are as follows:</span></p>
*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Enhance excellence and distinctiveness of the university’s academic programs</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strengthen the campus learning environment</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Support a commitment to the University’s core values and foster a campus culture that engages and values all members of the University community</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Attract, retain, and graduate the optimal number, quality and profile of students</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Engage with more communities and organizations through mutually beneficial strategic partnerships</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Build and maintain long-term financial sustainability</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Achieve greater public recognition and awareness of University programs and engage our constituents to increase their level of involvement and philanthropic support</span></div>

<span style="font-size:medium">More can be found at:[http://www.onu.edu/about http://www.onu.edu/about].</span>

 

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= <span style="font-size:xx-large">'''Promoting Student Innovation & Entrepreneuership'''</span><br/> =

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<span style="font-size: medium">ONU seeks to implement opportunities for both new and existing academic program growth. Recently the Dicke College of Business Administration program growth added an entrepreneurship program. The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration offers numerous courses that encourage the learning and application of innovation and entrepreneurship, opening the opportunity for the program to offer an entrepreneurship minor for any major, including courses geared towards the entrepreneurship in engineering and pharmacy. </span>

== KEEN Network ==

<span style="font-size: medium">ONU is a member of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network. <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">KEEN is a true collective effort of universities that are focused on preparing students to be entrepreneurial and innovative in engineering and technology.  The KEEN Network provides Ohio Northern University grants which are used to sponsor events like the KEEN Challenge and the Polar Elevator Pitch competition, as well as, the entrepreneurship program. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium">Northern’s new entrepreneurship program offers a plethora of opportunities for students of all majors to study, as well as, participate in spurring innovation and creativity beginning on-campus and continuing through to the professional level. ONU recently hired an Industry Liaison through the KEEN grant to foster entrepreneurship and innovation campus wide.</span>

== <span style="font-size:large">Polar Pitch</span><br/> ==

<span style="font-size:medium">[[File:Polar Pitch Elevator Competition.jpg|border|left|Polar Pitch Elevator Competition.jpg]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium">The Polar Pitch Competition prompt for students is to: captivate them with your creativity, engage them with your entrepreneurial mindset, and ignite your innovative side.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium">Students from all majors are invited to participate and courses such as Principles of Entrepreneurship and Intro to Engineering 2 require participation within this competition as part of an in class project. The Pitch competition has the following competition categories: ideas that improve society, high-tech commercialized product ideas, as-seen-on TV product ideas, and new businesses that creates jobs. First place participants win the grand prize and gain the opportunity to receive advice and instruction to take the winning idea from an idea to an actual product to the market.  </span>

== KEEN Innovation Challenge ==

<span style="font-size: medium">The second innovative event is the KEEN Innovation Challenge sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network and ONU. The challenge is held on a semester basis, with no two challenges being the same. Teams of three require at least one engineering student. The premise of the challenge is that each team exercise innovation and creativity in the impromptu challenges with a given set of materials.</span>
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== Maker Space ==
<p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ff3bab9-7fff-2946-1630-057ea3a06f03"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Maker Space is an area where innovative students can create exciting projects that can vary over a wide range of areas due to its wide range of tools and resources. It was first started in 2019 with the completion of construction of the James Lehr Kennedy Engineering Building. It is an area utilized by faculty and students alike.</span></span></p><div>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=2Tk_SrMxDf4}}</div>
  
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<span style="font-size: medium">More can be found at:</span> 

[http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_business_administration/entrepreneurship/38285 http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_business_administration/entrepreneurship/38285]

<span style="font-size: medium">[http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509 http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509]</span>

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

<span style="font-size:medium;">One of the key causes for Northern’s reputation for excellence stems from their focus as a school to encourage research and collaboration with professors at an undergraduate level. ONU believes strongly in undergraduate research as the foundation for future success. The undergraduate research and collaboration with professors, spurs innovation. As of recently, with the establishing of the entrepreneurship program by Dr. Tammy Schakett, and the Polar Elevator Pitch competition, students now have the opportunity to discover and practice innovation and entrepreneurship as catalytic pairs.</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">Recently, the Kern Family awarded a grant of $1.21 million to the T.J. Smull of College of Engineering at ONU to continue in instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering undergraduates from 2015 through 2018. As ONU continues to make strides in creating more opportunities for I & E to be integrated on-campus within the curriculum offerings, the students will not only be prepared to work at the professional level, but also be equipped to setting the innovative and entrpeneurial professional standard in their future careers. </span>

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<span style="font-size:medium;">More information can be found at:</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://www.onu.edu/academics/entrepreneurship http://www.onu.edu/academics/entrepreneurship]</span>

= '''''<span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">ONU Landscape</span> </span>''''' =

Spreadsheet: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W4TUrhjUS-LrZKFPmrxmayqiFsjrzukGmC6aTnSx16M/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[[Ohio Northern University Student Priorities|Ohio Northern University Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

'''Fall 2019''':

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anne_Major Anne Major]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brittney_Masters Brittney Masters]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Todd_Federici Todd Federici]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Will_Sierzputowski Will Sierzputowski]

<br/>'''Spring 2018''':

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_Hull Connor Hull]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kenton_Jarvis Kenton Jarvis]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Matthew_Walker Matt Walker]

[[User:M-schweinefuss|Matthew Schweinefuss]]

[[G-snelling|Georgia Snelling]]

'''Spring 2017:'''

[[Jared Emerson|Jared Emerson]]

[[Jeanne Graessle|Jeanne Graessle]]

[[Dan Musci|Dan Musci]]

[[Cheyenne Raker|Cheyenne Raker]]

'''Spring 2016:'''

[[Adam Berry|Adam Berry]]

[[Nathan Craft|Nathan Craft]]

[[Jonathan Szczerba|Jonathan Szczerba]]

'''Spring 2015:'''

[[Alexandra Seda|Alexandra Seda]]

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