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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ad11b24a-38fa-add2-3796-035a0e1bf7a9"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent#000000;">Converse College is an all-women’s college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Converse continues to adhere to its founders ideals, seeking to provide a comprehensive liberal arts education to young women from across the globe. It has received press in past years for lowering its tuition by 43 percent. In 2014, it ranked 23</span><span style="font-size: 9px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentlarge;">rd</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0tahoma, 0geneva, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; backgroundsans-color: transparentserif;">among Regional University South’s college rankings[[File:970312 624336567587821 953896863 n.jpg|center|970312 624336567587821 953896863 n.jpg]]</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style= Social Entrepreneurship"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Converse College is an all-women’s liberal arts college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Converse College continues to adhere to its founder's ideals, seeking to inspire "voice, value, and vision" in its students.&nbsp; ==It has received press in past years for lowering its tuition by 43 percent. In 2014, it ranked 22nd^&nbsp;among Regional University South’s college rankings.</span></span></span>

<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-ad11b24a-38fa-add2-3796-035a0e1bf7a9color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0tahoma, 0geneva, 0); verticalsans-align: baselineserif; white"><span style="font-space: pre-wrap; background-colorsize: transparentmedium;">As an Algernon Sydney Sullivan school, Converse has In 2017 a longstanding tradition new Quality Enhancement Plan was launched with several goals in mind. The purpose of service the QEP is to intergrate existing and new initiatives into the General Education Program requirements in order to othersbroaden perspectives in real world areans through diverse experiences. In recent yearsThe QEP also sponsors visiting speakers, this focus has continued on film screenings and workshops to social entrepreneurship. &nbsp;A select number of collegiate courses are dedicated expose students to Social Entrepreneurship’s applications in the surrounding communitydifferent cultures, backgrounds and worldwideidentities. Particularly interested individuals can choose It will also provide oppurtunities for internship and study abroad programs for students to attend the Sullivan Social Enterprise retreat in the fall or spring sessionslearn about different cultures. Converse College also has also sent a team to strong presence in the foundation’s social venture competitionSpartanburg community for service and service learning. This January, Converse continues to increase its Social entrepreneurship offeringshad the highest participation rate in Spartanburg, SC, from courses and seminars to exploratory learning tripsfor students actively involved in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.</span></span></span>

== Future '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span>''' ==

<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-ad11b24a-38fa-add2-3796-035a0e1bf7a9color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 15pxmedium; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0tahoma, 0geneva, 0); verticalsans-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;">In 2014, For what Converse funded its first university Innovation Fellowlacks in engineering and technology programs and resources, Nadia Gathersit makes up with student passion and initiative. Funding this program has put Converse’s dedication &nbsp;Students are encouraged by faculty, staff, and campus leaders&nbsp;to constant growth and institutionparticipate in innovative activities, provide solutions for campus-wide innovation at problems, and create programs or organizations to tackle them.&nbsp;There is no formalized problem solving or venture creation process, but some channels students can access when looking to implement solutions or open dialogue are the individual academic departments, the forefront. It joins other upstate universities in Center for Professional Development, the programOffice of Student Life, including Woffordthe Center for Leadership and Service, Clemsonthe President's Office, and Furmanthe Student Government Association (SGA).</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 15pxmedium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">A significant portion of the student body is actively involved in the SGA. However, there is&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arialtahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">no SGA organization that caters to the specifically entrepreneurial needs of the students. There has established certifications such as the Music Business and Technology Certificate, Performance Certificate for Non-Performance Music Majors, and the Business Professionalism Certificate Program, all of which require students to take an array of courses across one or more disciplines.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-size:medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">The college and its faculty and staff encourage student innovation and entrepreneurship through the Social Entrepreneurship minor, SCICU grant applications, SGA funding, and Student Excellence funding by the Office of the Provost and Associate Provost.</span></span>  <p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: baselinejustify;"></p>== '''<span style="color:#000000; white"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span>''' == <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-spacefamily: pretahoma,geneva,sans-wrapserif; background">Faculty members are encouraged to engage in innovative teaching methods, including addressing typical subject matters in out of the box ways. This includes everything from teaching economics through Harry Potter, team-teaching interdisciplinary study travel courses around the world, hosting guest speakers and entrepreneurs for class sessions, and conducting field trips to spaces like The Iron Yard. Some have founded their own social enterprises and businesses. Beyond these, however, Converse faculty members are not prominently involved in entrepreneurship culture.&nbsp;</span></span></span> <span style="color: transparent#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Presently<span style="font-family:tahoma, geneva,sans-serif;">The Center for Professional Development at Converse offers only one course specifically geared towards strives to provide students with the very best resources from&nbsp;Career Peer mentoring, various free workshops, and for-credit courses aimed at students who want to discover their potential and make things happen.&nbsp;</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Still, there is no formalized, established system through which teachers and faculty members are spurred to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation in and outside the classroom. Innovation is pursued on a personal basis, and is a direct response to students clamoring for better options.</span></span></span> == '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span></span>''' == <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Campus Technology provides students with the necessary resources to start student ventures on campus. Converse currently has not no formalized internal structures function to financially support student ventures on campus. Students looking for individuals financial venture support should look to outside sources of information, like the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, communicating their need and vision to various donors, partnering with companies like Milliken, or with&nbsp;like-minded students on campus to pursue such start an initiative for a path if project or business idea. Support is available through many sources, but the majority of students do not seek it.&nbsp;</span></span></span> == '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span></span>''' == <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse currently has no formalized partnerships with companies or groups in the space of I&E. However, individual students have gone on to work with local incubators, labs, art studios, and so on. The fruits of these individual partnerships have not resulted in permanent relationships with the insitution. Converse would fare well to more succinctly create and maintain these partnerships, so that interested students will have pipelines to follow once they are interested. &nbsp;</span></span></span> == '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts</span></span></span>''' == <span style="color: rgb(0#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">As an Algernon Sydney Sullivan school, Converse has a longstanding tradition of service to others. In recent years, this focus has continued to develop to an academic and experiential focus on social entrepreneurship. &nbsp;A select number of courses are dedicated to Social Entrepreneurship’s applications in the surrounding community and worldwide. Particularly interested individuals can choose to attend the Sullivan Social Enterprise retreat in the fall or spring sessions. However, 0the social entrepreneurship minor has not been able to form a separate entity with courses and professors from different disciplines. Currently, 0)the minor requires courses that most business majors have already taken.&nbsp;</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000; "><span style="font-family: Arialtahoma,geneva,sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 15pxmedium;">There is a strong need for concretized partnerships between Converse and its neighboring colleges (Wofford, USC etc.) as well as Spartanburg area businesses.&nbsp; whiteBecause of Converse's long-standing commitment to service, there is much that could be done between college-spacecommunity partnerships that could aid the development of Spartanburg as a whole.&nbsp;</span></span></span> == '''<span style="color: pre#000000;"><span style="font-wrapsize:medium; background"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Future</span></span></span>''' == <span style="color: transparent#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Although it’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is in In 2014, Converse funded its infancyfirst University Innovation Fellow, Nadia Gathers. In 2019, Converse funded three University Innovation Fellows, Aliyah Hancock, Jhazmin Gomez-Reyes and Marisa Daquil-Kawabe. Funding this program has put Converse’s dedication to fostering female leadership constant growth and excellence primes it for a revolution institution-wide innovation at the forefront. It joins other upstate SC universities in the spaceprogram, including Wofford, Clemson, and Furman. &nbsp</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;It ">Converse currently offers extensive programs in skills such as leadership, managerial processes, and others necessary to build a successful repertoire outside of college or university.It also provides multiple opportunities for students to conduct individualized institutional research and experimential learning.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Among the news initiatives that will all be in effect by the end of the 2019/2020&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">academic year are the&nbsp;Business Professional Development Certificate (Economics, Business, and Accounting), the&nbsp;Digital Arts Certificate (English, Graphic Design, and Computer Science), and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Vocational and Career Development Curricular Integration Plan in the School of the Arts (Art & Design, Theater and Musical Theater, School of Music, and Dance). Programs such as these, and the attitudes they instill in campus culture, will propel the college forward.&nbsp;</span> <span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span> = Landscape Canvas = [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1boC2giDZ-Enj_RmlLcomATumxFMf26xkUf3gLmnjrBE/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas] = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Related Links</span><br/> = '''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Converse College</span>''' [[Converse College Student Priorities|<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Converse College Student Priorities</span>]] [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/15m1w-KyVzg7_QdM8_aACSu7FrUcx9-wm-H2XsMAKT_Y/edit Business Model Canvas] Converse College Project Pitch:&nbsp;&nbsp;[https://youtu.be/ryI_oSt2uKc] 2019 &nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cd6s6FWAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cd6s6FWAI]&nbsp;2016 University Innovation Fellows Fall 2019 [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Aliyah_Hancock Aliyah Hancock] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jhazmin_Gomez_Reyes Jhazmin]&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jhazmin_Gomez_Reyes Gomez Reyes] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marisa_Kawabe Marisa Kawabe] Spring 2016: [[Sanuja Goonetilleke|Sanuja Goonetiieke]] Spring 2015: [[Nadia Gathers|Nadia Gathers]] [[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Converse_College]]{{CatTree|Converse_College}}