= Project Pitch Video =
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= Overview =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e6c539b3-7fff-12bc-7ba5-e0acf300a52d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having a student council as a liaison between the President and the students will make it easier to communicate student needs and to test the effectiveness of what is being implemented. The SGA President will begin the process of creating the council. The president will report back to PCO (President of Clubs and Organizations) to begin the form of communication. The students that have been chosen are valuable leaders on campus from diverse backgrounds and are dedicated to working diligently to continue the plan evaluation and implementation until its completion in 2023. </span></span>
= Priority 3: Create opportunities for Increase awareness of the Social Entrepreneurship minor by adding courses that will spark student interest =<div><div>The Social Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary minor that caters to all majors to students who are interested in learning how to create and maintain social enterprises in order to contribute to society. The courses offered include general business classes, marketing, economics, english, psychology, philosophy, and theatre, but most of the courses are heavily business based. Due to this reason, many students do not realize that the minor exists. Other students simply are not motivated to start or complete the minor because there are not any courses that guide students to define social problems and design different approaches to solutions. Before adding additional courses that are not offered, the minor will be enhanced by changing the course requirements. </div><div><br/></div><div>Potential Courses that can be engaged with Iadded</div><div>Diverse Training: Fighting Hate &E =Bias and Social Justice are two topics that conveniently overlap. This course is different from courses already offered due to the nature of information and topics that would be discussed and the interdisciplinary aspect. This course would involve between 2-5 professors who teach History, Politics, Women’s Studies, Economics, and Philosophy. Topics that would be taught include analyzing underrepresented groups, exploring and analyzing different forms of hate and bias and how they occur, discuss variations of how to achieve equality, learn how to combat hate and bias inside and outside the workplace, and completing a group or class campaign about a specific social issue agreed upon that will take place in Converse for 1 day- 1 week</div><div><br/></div><div>Design Thinking would explore what design thinking is by analyzing case study examples. There will be activities conducted in the beginning of classes in order to ignite curiosity and creativity in order to free the mindset of limited possibilities. There will also be a project that would take place in small groups or as a class effort to showcase what design thinking is and to spark interest to Converse students from various disciplines.</div><div><br/></div></div>
<span style="colorPriority 4:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Once students are aware of I&E on a grander scale, they can start building the Increase student’s networking abilities and entrepreneurial skills necessary to be successful. This priority section focuses primarily on building by offering more internship and job opportunities through the skills of Innovation and Entrepreneurship applicable to all disciplinescollege.</span></span></span>=<br/div><span style="color:#000000;"div>'''<span style="font-size:medium;"div><span style="font-family:tahomaIn this class,geneva,sans-serif;">LEADERSHIP RETREAT TRAINING</span></span>'''</span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">A large portion of professors at Converse's student body holds a leadership position on campus. Once a year, these would connect students converge in a weekend leadership retreatwith local businesses, where they learn with which partnerships with the basics of heading the coalitions and student boards they will college would be taking part in the entire school yearmade. These students are go-getters- they have run for office, started organizations, and serve as extensions of student life.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000 "><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">During this retreat, the principles of design thinking could be taught through placing This class would allow students in small groups and asking them to tackle a problem creatively. They can move from rapidly brainstorming solutions learn how to presenting their day’s work. This process will strengthen their ability reach out to work in high stress situationsbusinesses, communicate along with an interdisciplinary group, quickly prototype getting the hands on experience and roll out potential solutions, and learn from failures. Use of this model rather than preaching the tenets of leadership would be a fast paced way to get these students immersed in I&E culture while also learning tangible skills that will aid them networking experience with companies throughout the school year and beyond. </span></span></span> = Priority 4: Increase Community-Converse Partnerships = '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">UIF FELLOWS COALITION</span></span></span>''' <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">One of Converse’s largest and mostly untapped advantages is its location in proximity Students would have the opportunity to Wofford College, another UIF school. Other, regional UIF universities intern with more developed I&E ecosystems include Furman and Clemson.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,genevaa company for a semester,sans-serif;">In planning regional volunteer at events with colleges like Wofford, Clemson, and Furman, and directing students to resources that Converse may not be able to produce on its owncampus, students will be able to interact have an entry level position with a company, and learn from campus communities right outside their spacemuch more.</span></span></span> = Priority 5: Create Pipeline for I&E Students = <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">In developing This would allow students' passion about this movement, we must also understand that they require a path necessary to follow once they are dedicated. Priority four is tasked primarily network more with the development of concrete institutional pathways which these students can easily navigatecommunity, and possibly find future job opportunities after college. </spandiv></spandiv><br/span> '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">INTERDISCIPLINARY, COLLEGE-COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMMING</span></span></span>''' <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">An area of potentially impactful growth is the establishment of sustainable relationships between Converse and Spartanburg area businesses and nonprofits.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse already offers team taught courses, bridging disciplines like English and Biology to give students a new perspective in various topics. We propose that business focused students pair up with students in other disciplines to form new solutions for problems. As a school with a history in social entrepreneurship, solving problems in innovative, business focused ways would be a natural progression in programming. These programs could be tailored to help external entities like the Rape Crisis Center, the regional school system, and local nonprofits. </spandiv></spandiv></spandiv>
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University Innovation Fellows
Fall 2019
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Aliyah_Hancock Aliyah Hancock ]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jhazmin_Gomez_Reyes Jhazmin Gomez]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marisa_Kawabe Marisa Kawabe]
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