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We theorize that connecting students at the college to Kansas City's nationally recognized startup space will both benefit the current student body and signficantly significantly boost future enrollment by attracting students interested in opportunies opportunities in innovation and entrepreneurship. 

<div>''Week''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Ask students if they would be interested if the campus hosted an "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Career Day" once a semester.&nbsp;<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">If students do indeed seem interested, we intend to move forward with approaching the administration about creating an event like the one mentioned above.&nbsp;</div><div>''Month''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Present to the administraion administration of the college (President, Provost, Trustees)<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Seek out approval, support, and funding for the idea.&nbsp;<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive approval from faculty.&nbsp;<br/></div><div>''Year''<br/></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Establish an "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Career Day" held on William Jewell's campus once a semester. At this career day, held preferably on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday during Jewell time when students are out of class, we intend to showcase student involvement opportunuties opportunities in the KC startup community, rising startups in the local startup space, an alumni entrepreneurship council, and other related career information. This event would last the whole day with the intention of exposing William Jewell's students to career opportunities, information about both local and national entrepreneurship, and building an important connection between innovation and the students at the college.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div> = Priority 2: Incorporating Design Teams in the Science/Engineering Departments&nbsp;<br/> = <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->The research that takes place on Jewell's campus is mostly individualized and only lasts a couple semesters. Our engineering department is only a year old and hasn't had enough time or initiative to grasp design teams yet because the students are still so young. But, teams include teamwork, leadership, and responsibility which leads to success as individuals and as groups. == Taking Initiative<br/> == Taking initiative on this project will require a lot of personal relationships. Over the next couple years, students could work alongside professors rather than underneath them in a class. If students come to professors with project ideas, there will be a lot more involvement and passion for the projects. If students go to professors with projects, then they will enjoy the work. If they get shadowed during their research and replace themselves, they will feel much more inclined to act in a professional manner and explain their research thoroughly to those who will take their position. This will also allow the research to be continued over the years. We would like to get this idea out to students so that projects they're passionate about are integrated into the programs and they will hopefully be able to recruit mentees better to continue to fully develop projects that benefit themselves, professors, and the school. One particular application is building community through team-based engineering competitions. The Civil Engineering program is in its first year at William Jewell, and we want to encourage interconnectedness among the majors and their peers. We think that giving the Civil Engineers significant involvement will help them generate a sense of identity. The Civil Engineering faculty are supportive of these programs and are eager to transition the group to national affiliation. Our fellows are currently taking a lead role in this development.&nbsp;  

<span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">A blog we found ([http://blog.invisionapp.com/how-to-design-your-design-team/ http://blog.invisionapp.com/how-to-design-your-design-team/]) laid out how a business design team runs: there is the small group of directors, below them are the senior designers, and in the lowest section are the junior designers that are newest to the team. We thought we could redevelop this plan in terms of a science design time. We decided to do this in more of a ladder format rather than a pyramid. At the top of the ladder is the mentor/professor that leads the team and provides the tasks and goals of the group. The mentor brings in someone who they believe would benefit their team and teaches them the tasks while making them aware of the goals. The experienced researcher will then be heavily involved in teaching the newest researcher the ropes. Overtime, this would become a cycle as seniors graduate, juniors and sophomores ascend up the ladder, and freshmen fill empty positions. There are many benefits to our prototype such as continuous innovation to the research being done, practicing team-building, and learning through teaching.</span> = Priority 32: Creating a College of the 21st and 22nd Century&nbsp; Energizing alumni connection network =

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Kansas City currently has some of the fastest internet in the United States. Thanks to Google Fiber and excellent city planning the high-tech industry in the KC areas has been rapidly expanding in recent years. Recent developments on the William Jewell campus and points of pride for the college are also focused on tech utility. In fall of 2013 the college opened its Pryor Learning Commons, a bookless library and collaborative space for its students and faculty. In 2014 it unveiled its Jewellverse initiative which vastly improved the college's wifi capabilities and equipped every student and faculty member with an iPad. The college's 24== Thesis<br/7 innovation suites contain a free-to-use 3D-printer and digital media editing suites. The recent trend in the campus environment has been to be as tech savy as possible, yet with all of this technology being used on campus the only degree program in technology is the school's recently added interactive digital media degree.&nbsp;> ==

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Interviews with faculty, alumni, and students have shown that interest is high in the Jewell communiy for an increase in availability of computer science courses. Similarly, businesses such as Cerner are hard pressed to find locally-grown computer scientists. It is with this information that the 2015 Fall cohort is proposing Solidify a route to increase the presence of computer science courses on the William Jewell campus while simultaneously connecting William for Jewell students to the best universities in the world. &nbsp;&nbsp;within Kansas City professional atmosphere

== <span style="font-size: 12px">What do we mean by this?it looks like</span><br/> ==

&nbsp; &nbsp; edx.org is While we do host career mentor programs, a website that was co-founded by way to broaden the Massachusetts Institute scope of Technology and Harvard University. It allows these efforts would see an addition to the general public curriculum which takes students to Kansas City for learning experiences related to take courses from the founding institutions as well as many other worldtheir major-specific fields. My vision for this is for it to include requiring certain class universitites for free or at very low costsexperiences to occur in the field. The current version This could look like a professor pushing students to seek out answers to questions within the Kansas City area and creating a tradition of this plan for technology course expansion has three phasesstudent academic involvement within the professional landscape there.&nbsp;

=== Phase 1 === &nbsp; &nbsp; One of the many computer science courses offered on edx.org is Harvard's famed CS50 which immerses students in different programming languages. Our goal is to create a system in which students can enroll in the certificate verified CS50 course and complete the graded course to receive P/F credit. The ideal program would send a professor and student to Harvard over the upcoming summer to take part in the CS50 education course through the Harvard Extension school and a single student every summer thereafter. The course would be structured as a tutorial <span style class, students watching the lectures and beginning their coursework outside of class and meeting twice a week to collaborate on their projects. At the the end of the semester the group would complete a project to improve campus.&nbsp;   === Phase 2 === "font-size: 12px">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Upon successful implementation of phase 1 the program would increase the accredited-courses offered at Jewell through CS50. Programs like R and statistic for hard sciences and Ruby for beginners. If phase 1 went exceptionately well, it would be possible to include non-computer science classes to increase the diversity of courses offered at Jewell.&nbsp; === Phase 3 =</span> ==

= Priority 43: Interdisciplinary Communication =

 = Priority 54: 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>

<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 &nbsp;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>

<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 65: 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;">^st</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>

'''Fellows''' [[Jack Still|Jack Still]] [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]]  [[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]]

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