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== Tactic #7: Broadening the scope of I&E &nbsp;<span style="font-size:large;">practices through Inclusion and Recognition </span> ==

Description: Enhancing the essential foundation of I&E by practicing and educating on inclusion and recoginition toward the diverse individuals essential to the widespread success of I&E. This tactic seeks to utilize educational workshops on cultural fluency, highlighting the importance of recognizing the array of backgrounds from which rising entrepreneurs emerge from so that the ideas brought to I&E remain collaborative and mindful. To go with this, studetns from various backgrounds, identities, skill-sets, and majors will be <span style="font-size:small;">encouraged </span>to participate in I&E related activities. Ultimately, we hope to use difference as a force of empowerement and momentum through inclusion, recognition and celebration.

= Strategy #5: Increase Opportunity for Entrepreneurship = Value Proposition: *Increase the number of organizations and cirriculum opportunities related to entrepreneurship for students *Strengthen the college of managment to promote higher education for management and entrepreneurship *Provide a larger, more diverse landscape of opportunity of entrepreneurship to encourage multi-dimensional educations Note: This is a large, on-going project that has no real end goal since perfection can never be accomplished and improvement is always possible. == Tactic #1: Entrepreneurship Minor == *Description: Bucknell University has a well-established history as an acclaimed liberal arts and engineering university. Although the is a school of management, it does not have the support or opportunities for the students within that discipline to thrive as muh as other majors. Additionally, students that may have a diverse educational interest do not have many opportunities to strive for their interests. An entrepreneurship minor would be a very long, on-going project to complete, but would aid and encourage many students to seek a business and mangement related education to complement their main major.*Team Leader: TBA*Milestones:**Meet with Provosts Board to discuss possibilities and steps to creating a minor**Gain faculty support**Gain Alumni support**Work with school of managment to devise cirriculum schedule<div>== Tactic #2: Pre-Orientation Activity for First-Year Students ==<div></div>*Description: First-year students, fresh minds that do not know anything about the school and have not yet been molded by the structure of their university, are the perfect candidates for an entrepreneurship program. Pre-orientation is a 5 day excursion for first-year students where they participate in a workshop prior to their first day of college. A pre-orientation activity surrounded around the concept of entrpreneurship would promote business education and create an opportunity for first-year students to gain access and exposure to the entrpreneurship possibilities on campus. Upper-classmen students would run this 5 day workshop while faculty of the school of management and other departments would facilitate the activities. A "Shark Tank" or "Biz Pitch" related activity could be devised where students pair together and create a product/concept, organize a business plan, then pitch their idea to a small board of faculty and students. These ideas can then be carried into their school year and possibily be made into realities.*Team Leader: TBA*Milestones:**Approach office of&nbsp; new student orientation for permission and support&nbsp;**Gain support from faculty to assist on workshop**Contact alumni for support and financial backing**Create workshop outline and goals<div>== Tactic #3: Strengthen the School of Management ==<div></div>*Description: As a long-standing liberal arts and engineering university, Bucknell's school of management is on the rise but needs additional support. As promoters of Innovation and&nbsp;'''Entrepreneurship'''&nbsp;on campus, it falls within the jurisdiction of UIF to help aid the growth and expansion of the college.&nbsp;*Team Leader: TBA*Milestones:**Speak to management professors for ideas on how to strengthen the college**Create a structured outline and plan**Speak to alumni to brainstorm and gain support**Meet with Provosts with plan<div>== Tactic #4: Reinforce the Existing Entrepreneurship Opportunities ==<div></div>*Description: There are many opportunities for entrepreneurship on the Bucknell campus, however, promoting the usage of these opportunities and retaining the strenght and structure of these organizations and facilities can be challenging. UIF does a good job creating these opportunities, but after pass off, not all ideas stay together. Regular check ups and a slightly further involvement in past projects would allow these organizations to better succeed and reduce the risk of failure after being passed off.*Team Leader: TBA*Milestones:**Organization check-up meetings with passed-off UIF projects each semester**Step in when an organization needs support**Possibly hold off passing on project for a longer time**Create a structured outine for organizations to follow after pass off so that they remain successful in future   = Strategy #6: Vitalizing Community and Belonging = <span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small;">'''​'''</span></span>Value Proposition: *Delineate a common student space to build a sense of community*Creating a social alternative to Greek life on campus*Mapping student support on campus == Tactic #1: Rethinking Co-Sponsorships Among Clubs == Description:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The overarching goal that has been identified is finding social alternatives to Greek life on campus. We identified that clubs are alternatives that people are already invested in, i.e. people voluntarily take an active interest in clubs. However, in the context of Greek life still having a dominant presence on campus, how can we vitalize the engagement of clubs on campus? We start with the club, which typically have weekly meetings, themed discussions, and themed events. To start off, Bucknell Student Government (BSG) pairs clubs by how similar their sizes are to one another; such pairings create an environment in which 1-1 interactions between members from either club are more feasible. Then, a round of ice breakers allows members of either club to build interpersonal relationships with one another. After, the executive boards of both clubs create an activity together, which encourages active engagement by both clubs in creating a meaningful opportunity for themselves; they are given $100 for partaking in this partnership to begin with. Finally, clubs propose a campus-wide program, whether that be community service, social awareness, or even inspiring design-thinking; four of these club pairings are given $3,000 for the event. The funding creates more possibilities to make the event more enticing for students to partake in. Also, the four clubs that are chosen are more likely to be intentional and committed towards their mission for the greater good. We tested this idea through community research, which resulted in receiving positive feedback from Bucknell Student Government and the Campus Activities & Events office on campus.</span> == Tactic #2: Mapping Student Support on Campus == Description: Currently, the support resources on campus are not identified on a single map. For example, our school website may list athletics offices, the counseling center, the Teaching and Learning Center, and other support offices on campus. However, there are still unofficial support resources that students use, such as sorority study groups, that are not officially published. Instead of surveying the students by sending them another email, this project would entail students engaging in a brief, interactive reflection, where students can put sticky notes on a poster informing us about what support resources they find helpful on campus. == Tactic #3: Student Storage on Campus == Description: Student storage is currently an ongoing problem for clubs to store their artifacts on campus. There is space identified near campus, and it is currently planned to be discussed with the administration to spend some money to rennovate the space to a standard that would be suitable for short-term or long-term storage. == Tactic #4: Delineating a Central Student Space == Description: A current concern has been the lack of a central student space. Even though the dining spaces have been referred to as central common spaces, those are mainly for meals, which are essential but do not capture much of the student experience. Greek houses are a center for social life. There should be a unique space that is an alternative to Greek, is not a dining space, and is not an academic building that is a space for students to hold events or casually socialize with one another.   == Tatic #4A: Creating a Centralized Space For All Class Years == Description:&nbsp;Currently, the campus is divided between the first years and the upperclassmen due to geographical separation and no reasonable medium for upperclassmen and underclassmen to interact and work in a regular setting. This isolating characteristic of the campus inhibits people’s ability to interact with one another and to learn from the other class years. This also limits the ability for ideas, conversation, and debates to be spread throughout the campus. Since classes within majors like engineering and management do not have much mixture between age groups, many of the students do not have the opportunities to interact with different class years, and the classes that do offer some interaction between upper and underclassmen lack the ability to forge lasting connections between people.&nbsp; So how do we create a space that can help mesh people from different class years?<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 36pt;"><br/> </span></div> == Tactic #5: E & I Mentorship == The transition from high school to college is a difficult one which many first-year students struggle with. By pairing incoming students with involved, inspiring upperclassman, these first-years will have a support system, a role model, and source of information about E&I opportunities all in one. This tactic aims to enhance the E&I community through a sense of belonging, as well as increase awareness about the variety of other E&I endeavors on campus.