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= Project Pitch Video = <span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97fmt5TyI-A Project Pitch Video 2016]</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Project Pitch Video 2015</span> {{#Widget:Youtube|id=d8zkH_lN0ds}} <br/>'''Overview ''' =
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Located in the foothills of Greenville, South Carolina - Furman University is one of the nation's premier undergraduate liberal arts colleges. At 2600 students, Furman is known for outstanding faculty and student relationships, its approach towards engaged learning, its robust visual and performing arts program and its competitive NCAA Division I athletics. Furman prides itself on its unique academic program, which teaches students how to think critically, how to evaluate and create, and how to see multiple perspectives through the lens of empathy. Built upon these principles, students graduate broadly-educated, well-rounded, prepared for leadership and eager to take on the challenges of a complex world.</span></span>
#<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: -18pt;">To attract students from all departments to the concept of Social Entrepreneurship, we will make another class nearly similar to the first one but focusing on work being done by Social Entrepreneurs from different parts of the world. That class will satisfy a general educational requirement (e.g. World Cultures). Deadline Fall 2017</span>
#<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: -18pt;">The two classes will be made interdisciplinary between Poverty Studies and the Business Department and more efforts will be made to come up with new classes that are interdisciplinary to facilitate socially friendly innovation in various.</span>
#<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: -18pt;">Have professors learn how to incorporate innovation/entrepreneurial ideas into courses despite different fields. Emphasize the importance of creative thinking to professors so they can include it in their classes, and ultimately teach students to think outside the box.</span>
= '''Priority 2: Implement Incorporating Hands-on Learning and Scale a Technological Renovation that Leads to the Redesign of Lectures''' = == '''The Lightboard Furman projectCommunity Partnerships into Course Curriculum''' == <span style="font-size: medium;">'''Thesis'''</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Given the idea of the light board technology from Professor Michael Peshkin at Northwestern University, the Lightboard Furman is a project at Furman University in which light boards – user-friendly educational tech tools – are utilized by professors of Math & Science Department and potentially those of other departments at Furman.</span>
<span style="font-size: medium12px;">This unique board allows teachers '''1. Host UIF Stakeholder Meetings in order to face their learn from faculty and students while writing and drawing diagrams during lecture and, with about what kinds of changes they would like to see to the addition of curriculum. Also gain insight into how community-based partnerships can be applied to a TV monitor and a projector, allows them to record parts range of lectures or solutions to individual problems in class subjects and post them easily on the Moodle learning sitebe feasibly incorporated into curriculum.''' </span>
= '''Priority 3: Serving as a Connecting Agent to Embrace Students' Ventures from Different Approaches ''' =
<span style="font-size: medium;">- The Greenbelt @ Furman Lake: This signature engaged-living experience creates space for sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in sustainability, technology, social entrepreneurship and design to live in a sustainability-themed living-learning community on Furman Lake. This community could feature co-curricular (student projects on campus) and extra-curricular opportunities linked to relevant coursework (Sustainability, Art, Business, Earth & Environmental Science, etc.).</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">- Community House: This signature engaged-living experience creates opportunities for juniors and seniors in Furman's Poverty Studies program to live in a community house on the Poinsett Corridor that focuses on social innovation, community development and grassroots leadership. This could include after-hours seminars, related courses (Poverty Studies, Economics, Business, Art, Sociology, Sustainability Science, etc.), co-curricular (student projects on campus) and extra-curricular opportunities</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">-Maker Carts: Have first year students engage in creative competitions. Housing could arrange for the set up of 'Maker Carts' or 'MacGyver Carts' where students have to build something out of random objects (legos, paper clips, water bottles) given to them in a cart. This incorporates the innovative and creative thinking process into the culture at Furman, and begins the creative journey for students beginning their first year. Target date, August 2017. </span> = '''Priority 6: Furman Refugee Project ''' = <font size="3">'''Situating today's global refugee issue in the context of the Furman community, including its extensive alumni and student ties to refugee crises and relief work around the globe. '''</font> <span style="font-size: medium;">'''''How might we bring the issue closer to home and illuminate the university community's longstanding tradition of advocating for and serving displaced people across the globe?'''''</span> -<span style="font-size:larger;">Furman University Refugee Task Force: team of faculty, administrators, and students that coordinates campus-wide lectures and events feauturing university, community, and national leaders engaged in refugee resettlement, immigration policy development, and international humanitarian relief work.</span> <span style="font-size:larger;">- Collaborative for Community-Engaged Learning Refugee Map: Maintains updated digital GIS map of Furman alumni and student connections to refugee relief work starting in the 1920's</span> <span style="font-size:larger;">- Division of Student Life Refugee Resettlement Alternative Spring Break Trip: <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Refugee Resettlement" will immerse students in Clarkston -- a town outside of Atlanta hailed as the most diverse square mile in the U.S. and considered home by over 8,000 recently-resettled refugees from around the world -- and offer a variety of direct service opportunities and educational workshops designed to illuminate the challenges facing refugee populations.</span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">- No Lost Generation Student Organization: Students work to directly and materially assist local refugee populations while interning with the U.S Department of State's Virtual Student Federal Service program and attending the annual UNA-USA Global Engagement Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC.</span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Annual Refugee Week: student organizations set up booths outside the library to engage students in a variety of activities, including a "Map Your Heritage" exercise, raffle for a #RefugeesWelcome t-shirt, #StandWithRefugees photo-op, and welcome notes to newly-arrived refugees in South Carolina. The week will also include a constituent advocacy workshop hosted by the League of Women Voters; a refugee journey simulation conducted by the Carolina Peace Resource Center; and an outdoor awareness campaign delineating the steps of a typical refugee from origin of displacement to site of resettlement.</span></span> [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-jcM-8kn1i7NHN4d8xVB-Cb2h1K2Bs1L Project Timeline & Change Story] = <font size="3">Related Links</font> = [[Furman University|<span style="font-size: medium;">Furman University</span>]] '''<span style="font-size: medium;">Furman University Student Priorities</span>''' === [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juhee_Bhatt <u><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Juhee Bhatt </span></b></u>]<br/> === [[Anna Peterson|<span style="font-size: medium;">Anna Peterson</span>]] [[Kudakwashe Chinyama|<span style="font-size: medium;">Kudakwashe Chinyama</span>]] <span style="font-size: medium;">[[Ben Riddle|Ben_Riddle]]</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">[[Tyler Higgins|Tyler_Higgins]]</span> [[Category:Student Priorities|f]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Furman_University]][[Category:Student_Priorities]]{{CatTree|Furman_University}}