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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-11-19T21:03:45Z

Mmarambe:

= Overview =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for change =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Fellow:Yi Wang

2016-10-22T17:24:40Z

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<div> </div><div>Yi Wang</div><div>Learning Experience Design | Social Entrepreneurship</div><div>Yi Wang is a University Innovation Fellow, as well as a Psychology major at [[File:Profile Pic Yi Wang.JPG|thumb]]Smith college.Yi is also a social entrepreneur, designer, and learning experience expert, and she is never satisfied with one hashtag only. She became a high school teacher while she was a high school student. She piloted the first service learning elective at the most selective school in Guangzhou, China and instructed 25 students to accomplish their projects. Prior starting college, she took a gap year and founded her studio YS prompting sustainable and socially-responsible fashion in China. Her mission-driven studio then transformed into a Design school where she aimed to empower migrant children (children of migrant factory workers lack of access to public education due to House Registration System) with mindsets and skill-sets to be fashion designers. Yi is great with creating toys, games and activities. She employees the lens of design and strategy to support organizations explore ideas, advance their capacity and enhance their impact. She has designed and facilitated ice-breaking, Hackathon, Design Thinking workshops for renowned organizations such as Asia Society, Harvard Leadership Summit, Harvard SEED social innovation camp, Clover Youth. The past summer, Yi was an intern at Ashoka working with Project Start Empathy.</div><div> </div><div>
= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/Smith%20College Smith College]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Smith%20College%20Student%20Priorities Smith College Student Priorities]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond], [[Mandira_Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis#Related_Links Jessica Innis,] Yi Wang 

[[Category:Student Contributors|a]]

Fellow:Lingxuan Li

2016-10-22T17:23:53Z

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[[File:Lingxuan Li Profile.jpg]]

Lingxuan is a senior at Smith College double majoring in Economics and Mathematics, with a Concentration in Global Financial Institutions. She spent her junior year abroad in London studying Finance and Economics. At Smith, Lingxuan is the Vice President of Smith College Investment Club, where she brainstorms events, leads valuation modeling sessions, and presents her internship experience on various panels. At LSE, she furthered her academic interest in development economics by serving as the Panel Manager of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Panel during the 2016 LSE SU China Development Forum. During her summers, Lingxuan completed two summer internships in investment banking, led City Tour Programme as the Assistant Coordiantor during the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, and interned with the South Korean National Congress International Relations Department during her freshman summer. In her spare time, Lingxuan likes to arrange music and watch broadway musicals. 

'''Related Links'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College Smith College]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li], [[Jessica_Innis|Jessica Innis]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi_Wang Yi Wang]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Mandira Marambe

2016-10-22T17:14:11Z

Mmarambe:

Mandira Marambe is a University innovation Fellow pursuing a BSc. in Engineering and Minor in Physics at Smith College, [[File:Mandira Marambe.jpg|thumb]]Massachusetts. She is part of a circle of five UIFs at Smith, and has also worked with design thinking methodologies in the classroom.In her spare time, Mandira volunteers with the Science Outreach Program, is on the editorial board for an online journal, and is involved with several student organizations on campus. She spent the past summer interning in the Autonomation Research & Innovation department of MAS holdings in Sri Lanka, where she worked on projects focusing on automation for the sewing industry.

Having grown up in Sri Lanka, she loves sunshine and spicy food. She is also an avid reader, puzzle enthusiast, and enjoys most kinds of creative stimulation (writing, DIYs, etc). Mandira is a strong believer in spending her time doing what she loves, and hopes to follow her passions to wherever they lead her.
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= Related Links =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], Mandira Marambe, [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li,] [[Jessica_Innis|Jessica Innis]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi_Wang Yi Wang] 

[[Category:Student Contributors|m]]

Fellow:Mandira Marambe

2016-10-22T17:12:47Z

Mmarambe:

Mandira Marambe is a University innovation Fellow pursuing a BSc. in Engineering and Minor in Physics at Smith College, [[File:Mandira Marambe.jpg|thumb]]Massachusetts. She is part of a circle of five UIFs at Smith, and has also worked with design thinking methodologies in the classroom.In her spare time, Mandira volunteers with the Science Outreach Program, is on the editorial board for an online journal, and is involved with several student organizations on campus. She spent the past summer interning in the Autonomation Research & Innovation department of MAS holdings in Sri Lanka, where she worked on projects focusing on automation for the sewing industry.

Having grown up in Sri Lanka, she loves sunshine and spicy food. She is also an avid reader, puzzle enthusiast, and enjoys most kinds of creative stimulation (writing, DIYs, etc). Mandira is a strong believer in spending her time doing what she loves, and hopes to follow her passions to wherever they lead her.
<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Related Links =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], Mandira Marambe, [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li,] Jessica Innis, [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi_Wang Yi Wang] 

[[Category:Student Contributors|m]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-22T13:05:54Z

Mmarambe:

= Overview =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for change =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], [[Lingxuan_Li|Lingxuan Li]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis], [[Yi Wang|Yi Wang]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:59:26Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

 

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:58:59Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

 

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:57:41Z

Mmarambe:

= Overview =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for change =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:51:17Z

Mmarambe:

= Overview =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for change =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:50:44Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for change =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:49:20Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:48:53Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:48:31Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:47:45Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

 

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:47:14Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

 

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:46:33Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:45:34Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:45:09Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, [[Yi_Wang|Yi Wang]]</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:43:52Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:43:18Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:43:06Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:42:44Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:42:03Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:41:40Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:41:13Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:39:49Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:38:47Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T03:38:19Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T03:34:58Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:15:45Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
<div> </div>

= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:03:35Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:03:03Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:   [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:02:41Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                   [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:02:06Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                   [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:00:54Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                 [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:00:38Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                  [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:00:25Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                      [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T01:00:09Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                            [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:59:53Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                     [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:59:03Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                 [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:58:30Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                  [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:58:09Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                  

[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:57:55Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                                  [[Amanda Lavond| Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:57:23Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                                           [[Amanda_Lavond|  Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira_Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:51:20Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                               [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda_Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira_Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2016-10-21T00:46:45Z

Mmarambe:

= '''Overview:''' =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

=== '''Innovations Concentration''' ===

Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation</li>
<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>
</ol></li>
<li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>
<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li>
<li>A capstone experience</li>
</ol>

 In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

=== Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.

== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ41sWXx10U&feature=youtu.be Maker Market]
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Other Related Links:</div>
[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:                                                                                                                                               [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda_Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira_Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang

[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T00:39:05Z

Mmarambe:

= Campus Overview =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T00:38:35Z

Mmarambe:

School:Smith College

2016-10-21T00:38:08Z

Mmarambe:

= CAMPUS OVERVIEW =

Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Student innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College has recently begun gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has a number of courses and workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.

== '''Landscape Canvas 2016 ''' ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spread Sheet 2016]
<div>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</div><div> </div><div> </div>
= Other Related Links: =
<div>[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]] </div><div> </div><div>University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</div><div>[[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]], [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe]], Lingxuan Li, Jessica Innis, Yi Wang</div><div> </div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]