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= Strategic Priorities at William Jewell College Project Pitch Fall 2019 =
= Priority 1: Promoting Exposing Jewell's Student Voice & Events Body to Kansas City's Thriving Startup Space =
== Paperless @ Jewell ==<div>Recent campus changes have brought about a new “library of the 21st century,” the Pryor Learning Commons (PLC). The PLC has revolutionized the way our campus works with regards to reducing paper waste and fully embraces its role as a “paperless building.” However, many traditional modes of student communication such as flyers are disallowed from buildings that are paperless. The advent of social media has not stemmed the problem, but has in some ways exacerbated it. Students invite their existing social connections to events, and a broader audience effectively cannot be reached by an organization looking to expand its outreach efforts. However, new efforts like the program called JewellVerse may be a viable avenue for the production of a technological solution to this problem.</div><div><br/></div><div>JewellVerse is an initiative begun this school year, in which every student, faculty, and staff has an iPad, enabling a single-device synergy that empowers mobile technology in and around the classroom. Professors are beginning to integrate digital materials into their pedagogical approaches in new ways, and the technology is facilitating collaboration and a spread of ideas that previously would have been too arduous to orchestrate without a unified device ecosystem.</div><div><br/></div><div>The gradual transition that many colleges and universities have seen towards working in a digital environment is more complete at Jewell than at many comparable institutions. This presents an interesting dilemma: as the learning curve of a digital campus becomes easier and easier, William Jewell College is experiencing the advantages of working in a digital environment. At the same time, many of the historical means by which students market organizational activities rely on paper and printers, which have perhaps the widest accessibility of any classroom technology ever. Developing digital solutions to work in a digital ecosystem can take a substantial investment of time and energy, and there are few people capable of software development. What We consider a Lean approach to this problem, where the problem will be validated, key stakeholder input will be collected, resources identified, and a fail-fast, agile approach to development will be taken.</div><div><br/></div>== Marketing to Advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<div>The solution identified through Lean customer interviews involves creating an application to replace the existing “#jewellplc” Twitter feed TV that would include additional content feeds, particularly calendar/event feeds for organizations. On a TV, the application would scroll through content and change feeds from Twitter to Instagram to Campus Events. The same framework that has been used to prototype this project can be used to develop mobile applications, and could lead to an iPad version of the project complete with push notifications of new events.</div><div>Found<br/></div><div>One key consideration is how this project can help advance innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Primarily, this project aims to increase '''collision frequency'''. This is a key predictive metric for innovation and the exchange of ideas. By catalyzing a broader campus involvement, the culture of William Jewell College becomes a better environment for sharing ideas. As a liberal arts institution, William Jewell has a diverse group of interdisciplinary thinkers, makers, and researchers. We aim to improve our “return on collisions,” as Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh phrases it in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaAVbf-I7w his talk about the Downtown Project in Las Vegas], embracing three core elements: Collision, Co-learning, and Connectedness. These are crucial for entrepreneurial mindsets and creative thinking to flourish.</div><div><br/></div><div>Another way that this can help our campus entrepreneurs is through establishing policies that would allow not only student organizations and staff to utilize the board, but also student entrepreneurs seeking to promote their ventures. By having an established channel, the awareness of entrepreneurship at Jewell will help normalize the idea that students are capable of designing and running a startup, combatting the currently risk-averse nature of the student body.</div><div><br/></div><div>As for any communications channel, it is important that the spirit of William Jewell College is conveyed as a part of our message. Our commitments to academic excellence, experiential learning, and service would be furthered by connecting students to resources such as the Academic Achievement Center, Office of Global Studies, and Center for Justice and Sustainability. This helps these infrastructural elements of William Jewell get closer to students’ everyday lives.</div><div><br/></div>== Campus Data ==<div>In the development of this project, many streams of data will be consumed and placed into the application. One side effect of this process is that the data feeds could be made available to students. Innovation benefits from an open campus data policy, adhering to ideas such as those stated by [http://campusdata.org/ the Campus Data initiative]. By bringing this sort of openness to the “JewellVerse” program, student makers and innovators would have the opportunity to do civic-hacking-style projects and improve their campus community.</div><div><br/></div>= Priority 2: Leveraging Research Internships & Industry Mentorship =
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== Task 1<span style="font-size: Collecting Initial Data 12px">What it looks like</span><br/> ==
== Task 2<span style="font-size: Developing Policy 12px"> </span> == Drafting a white page document that will serve as a formal proposal is the most important process. During this drafting process we will use expert insight into legal and contractual requirements. Eventually this document will be overhauled by student, faculty, and community leader committees before submitting the document to administration of the college. == Task 3: Launching Initiative ==</div>
== Tactic 1: Building Relationships<br/> ==
<div>Communicating between areas of study and departments for the purpose of collaboration will benefit the community by expanding the effects of the liberal arts approach at William Jewell College. Inviting faculty from other departments to lectures, shadow a class, collaborate on curriculum, and share ideas are the objectives of interdepartmental communication. For example, if a class is discussing a subject that relates to that of another discipline, it could be enriching to bring a faculty member from the other department to speak on the subject. Furthermore, if a department had a program that could be of interest to a student outside the major, faculty to faculty communication could facilitate communicating this program to their students.</div><div><br/></div>
== Tactic 3: Unifying Silos<br/> ==
<div>As students have expressed, they feel comfortable communicating with faculty in their own discipline, but are hesitant to contact those who are not in their disciple. Breaking down silos that block communication could aid in encouraging students talking to faculty in other disciplines. As William Jewell is a liberal arts institution, it is a goal of the college to create well rounded individuals who value critical thinking. This goal can be facilitated through accessibility to the whole faculty, not just those in one's department.</div> = Priority 4: Effective Campus Communication =<div><span style="font-size:small">William Jewell College is a small campus with just 1100 students. Combined with centralized campus "heartbeats" like our digital library and student union, Jewell is a place in which one feels as if they are always plugged in to campus community. Ironically, Jewell campus initiatives have had a profoundly difficult time relaying information and motivating the student body to attend events. This, combined with the small size of the college, can produce lackluster engagement at events. In short, serendipity and word of mouth are both relied upon and coming up short when it comes to campus communications.</span></div>== The Problem ==<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7492f0f-dc1e-7346-7c57-add4508b7f2d"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">One of main problems that we identified as a we completed our landscape canvas was the problem of communication between the students and the administration. Often student would be frustrated by the lack of response and ability to communicate to the college administration. There’s no clear way for student to express their concerns and suggest change.</span></span></div>== The Idea ==<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7492f0f-dc1e-7346-7c57-add4508b7f2d"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In brainstorming ideas we found several ideas that would provide a small bandaid to the larger problem but the idea we believe to be the solution a comprehensive website that allows students to ask questions and get answers. In addition to the website a committee would be formed to address the submissions. This committee would be made up of students faculty and administration, every semester the committee would hold a public forum in which students could ask for the reasoning behind different responses. The website will provide students a public medium to interact with the administration while working with the average Jewell students busy schedule. The format will allow students to submit questions and comments anonymously or with their name attached, while students can upvote submissions they relate to.</span></span></div><div><br/></div></div> = <span style="font-size:x-large"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Priority 5: Expanding Technology Resources</span></span></span><br/> =<div><span style="font-size:small">A problem that we identified on our campus is the lacking usability of existing technology coupled with the inability of students to access and learn about our resources. While our campus has </span><span style="font-size:small" class="gr-progress">embraces</span><span style="font-size:small">21</span><span style="font-size:small"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="font-size:small"><span>century</span></span><span style="font-size:small">technology, there is a disconnect between those resources and students’ knowledge. In some places, there is no explanation on how to use various forms of technology, and in </span><span style="font-size:small"><span>others</span></span><span style="font-size:small">that information is poorly communicated. We decided to tackle this problem by implements a three-phase project that emphasizes the usability of existing resources, creates access to useful information, then once these are available will make it useful by hosting Pop-Up classes on both tech and software. This was students can learn to create useful products on their own without the need of an academic class. The flexibility of this will appeal to a large portion of the student body who wish to differentiate themselves in the vocational market with projects such as interactive resumes, video editing, web creation, and other creative suites.</span></div><div><br/></div>== Phase 1: Infrastructure Improvements == · Cards with instructions next to tech · Updated availability of tech in library · Increased Ellucian Go capabilities · Posters displaying available tech · More Apple TVs around campus · Peripheral adapters to increase usability · TV "commercials" in Pryor Learning Commons == Phase 2: Aggregate Resources == · How-to videos on Ellucian Go · Reserve rooms around campus through online form · Publish iTunes U links for resources regarding technology on campus == Phase 3: Pop-Up Classes on Technology and Software == · Orientation introduction for both upperclassmen and first-years · Voluntary classes that partner with existing classes · Multiple sessions over both technology and software use <br/></div> = Related Resources = {{#Widget:Youtube|id=coMSURfJGIQ}}
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[[Jack Still|Jack Still]]
[[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]]
[[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]]
[[Alex Holden]]
[[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]
[[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]]
Benjamin Shinogle
[[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]]
[[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]]
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt">'''Spring 2017 Fellows: '''[[Meg Anderson|Megan Anderson]], [[Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe|Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]], [[Conner Foote|Conner Foote]], [[William Hyde|William Hyde]], [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]], [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]], [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]], [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]]<br/></div>
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