University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Alexandra Cooper

2018-10-19T03:57:47Z

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Fellow:Amita Shukla

2018-10-19T02:06:55Z

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<div>[[Category: Student Contributors]]</div><div>Amita Shukla is a University Innovation Fellow and student at Columbia University pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering and Operations Research.</div><div><br/></div><div>She is passionate about civic tech and improving American governance through improved use of technology and data.</div><div>Past endeavors to that end include:</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>1. Designing and implementing a data dashboard for new diplomats at the U.S. Department of State to quantitatively understand the regions they are deploying to</div><div>2. Developing and maintaining a virtual dialogue platform at the United Nations for scientists and policymakers to jointly develop evidence-based policy</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Amita aims to enhance all the communities she is part of, including Columbia, West Harlem, and her small town New Jersey hometown. </div><div>As a candidate for the University Innovation Fellows by Stanford's Design and Engineering School, Amita hopes to encourage students to take advantage of Columbia's physical spaces and exert claimancy over their campus. She believes through feeling that they have welcoming physical spaces on campus, Columbia students will feel more autonomous in the rest of their campus lives.</div><div><br/></div>

Fellow:Amita Shukla

2018-10-19T02:05:34Z

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<div>Amita Shukla is a University Innovation Fellow and student at Columbia University pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering and Operations Research.</div><div><br/></div><div>She is passionate about civic tech and improving American governance through improved use of technology and data.</div><div>Past endeavors to that end include:</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>1. Designing and implementing a data dashboard for new diplomats at the U.S. Department of State to quantitatively understand the regions they are deploying to</div><div>2. Developing and maintaining a virtual dialogue platform at the United Nations for scientists and policymakers to jointly develop evidence-based policy</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Amita aims to enhance all the communities she is part of, including Columbia, West Harlem, and her small town New Jersey hometown. </div><div>As a candidate for the University Innovation Fellows by Stanford's Design and Engineering School, Amita hopes to encourage students to take advantage of Columbia's physical spaces and exert claimancy over their campus. She believes through feeling that they have welcoming physical spaces on campus, Columbia students will feel more autonomous in the rest of their campus lives.</div><div><br/></div>

Fellow:Amita Shukla

2018-10-19T02:04:56Z

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<div>Amita Shukla is a University Innovation Fellow and student at Columbia University pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering and Operations Research.</div><div><br/></div><div>She is passionate about civic tech and improving American governance through improved use of technology and data.</div><div>Past endeavors to that end include:</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>1. Designing and implementing a data dashboard for new diplomats at the U.S. Department of State to quantitatively understand the regions they are deploying to</div><div>2. Developing and maintaining a virtual dialogue platform at the United Nations for scientists and policymakers to jointly develop evidence-based policy</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Amita aims to enhance all the communities she is part of, including Columbia, West Harlem, and her small town New Jersey hometown. </div><div>As a candidate for the University Innovation Fellows by Stanford's Design and Engineering School, Amita hopes to encourage students to take advantage of Columbia's physical spaces and exert claimancy over their campus. She believes through feeling that they have welcoming physical spaces on campus, Columbia students will feel more autonomous in the rest of their campus lives.</div><div><br/></div>

Fellow:Amita Shukla

2018-10-19T01:58:23Z

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2018-10-19T01:49:08Z

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Priorities:Columbia University Student Priorities

2018-10-19T01:43:40Z

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The purpose of this page is to articulate four to five projects we believe would meaningfully improve our campus innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. As part of our training for the University Innovation Fellows program, each of us brainstormed, prototyped, and loosely tested our products. The next step of this project would be to continue to iterate these projects and work with University stakeholders to implement one or multiple. 

== 1. Promoting student engagement with on-campus events and resources (Lexie Lehmann) ==

We noticed that students on campus fear overwhelmed with all of the event offerings available to them on and off-campus, as well as the “fear of missing out” felt when students believe that there is a social or academic opportunity that they’re not aware of. In an effort to combat this, we noticed that there were several different websites used to post events on campus but that there were few forums to congregate the events happening on any given day. One of our priorities is to make students feel included and engaged in the Columbia community and to know what opportunities are available to them as a student on this campus in a way that is manageable and inclusive. Originally, we conceived that this forum could take the form of a mobile app, but with feedback from our UIGuide, we’ve decided to look into other ways, especially non-technology ways, to explore promoting on-campus agency and connectivity.

'''Prototype''': [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I3aJlrrSKdovLLb1ZzktWRGIWWSWCKTK844Ah55ciSI/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I3aJlrrSKdovLLb1ZzktWRGIWWSWCKTK844Ah55ciSI/edit?usp=sharing ]

== 2. Developing Student Self-Awareness with a Neuroscience Course Tailored to the Growth Mindset (Lisa Dinh) ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Background</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This solution focuses on the problem our Columbia team identified in Session 2 using UIF guidelines: “how might we encourage personal ownership of the campus and institution? Further, how might we promote individual agency within the Columbia experience?” This course has been championed by UIF Lisa Dinh based on her own experiences with the power of understanding how our brains work, heal, and grow in the context of developing individual confidence and identity.</span></span></span>

== 2. Fostering Feelings of Claimancy With Enhanced Public Spaces (Amita Shukla) ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Background</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span>

<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This solution focuses on the problem our Columbia team identified in Session 2 using UIF guidelines: “how might we encourage personal ownership of the campus and institution? This solution centers around making better use of Columbia's public spaces, making them more encouraging to stay in and more inviting by creating pop up installations that suggest to students that they could be niches to return to and claim as one's own on campus. Columbia's campus can often be alienating and unwelcoming, requiring reservations to use even for a few hours, and these open spaces will change that inherent perception.</span></span></span>

'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Tactics:</span></span>'''

*<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside Support and Suggestions</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read about and collect syllabi from comparable courses at other institutions</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speak to past UIF members who have done similar projects</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speak to the creators of Design Your Life courses at Stanford and “Happiness” course at Yale</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research the methods of course development at Columbia</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine who are our stakeholders, and what will motivate them to participate</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine the current course offerings at Columbia in Neuroscience, Psych departments</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer: are there existing course with the same value?</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to students about their needs and interests</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer: what value can this course add?</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What would you like to learn about your brain? About yourself?</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What would be useful/helpful to learn?</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can and/or should this course be counted for credits?</span></span></span>
***<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would it be more useful to have a course that is somewhat of a pop-up or would it be more useful to delve deeply into this course?</span></span></span>
*<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop Course</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine best methods for execution of this course</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine syllabus based on student needs, wants, and suggestions from professors</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine who will teach, where, and when</span></span></span>
*<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pitch and Practice</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pitch course to Deans and Departments</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test Course Topics in Small Group</span></span></span>
*<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Execute</span></span></span>
**<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066d38bc-7fff-fbe4-a352-d2dd1af6f98b"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upon approval, execute idea!</span></span></span>

'''Prototype''': [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjdf_cOriL6p3X9U9yMpq3TJ1j2eGgSQv6xtiCdO98M/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjdf_cOriL6p3X9U9yMpq3TJ1j2eGgSQv6xtiCdO98M/edit?usp=sharing]

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