Changes

*Creation of an Entrepreneurship Task Force a monthly entrepreneurship at Northwestern stakeholders meeting that will serve to examine ways update the various stakeholders on the efforts of knowledge sharing other stakeholders and collaborating across silos - November, 2015foster collaboration*Re-maping and development Creation of new graphics a task force that more clearly highlight will work to find ways to increase collaboration and knowledge sharing across the schools and departments and decrease the resources avaliable - December, 2015amount of duplicate efforts.*Student Involvement Students should have a clear representative voice in Discussion of discussions around ecosystem needs, most likely through a one to two student representatives at the proposed stakeholder meetings and on the proposed task force. <span style="font-family: Oswald; font-size: 14.4px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">B. Creating Student NeedsEntry Points</span>

·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Garage’s opening marks a major milestone in the development of the Northwestern Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and has the potential to serve as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and innovation on campus. It is critical that it’s role be clearly defined in a way consistent with the ecosystem’s needs. While this may seem like common sense, it is critical that the Garage serve as a hub in the sense that it connects the varying efforts on campus and allows for intersections between ideas and backgrounds, rather than pushing a uniform entrepreneurial vision. <span style="font-size: larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e334ee83-9312-5c5d-00be-3c5417e44c1d"><span style="font-family: Oswald; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A. Development of a Diverse Community</span></span></span>

Key MilestonesProposed Solutions:

*Creation Upon completion of a strategic plan for the development current resident survey, analysis of the results to identify gaps in terms of a diverse community - Novemberacademic background, year, 2015*Development of better legal resources for resident teams - Novembergraduate and undergrad, 2015and other aspects that impact the overall diversity.*Targeted outreach centered on attracting entrepreneurs from non-tradtional backgrounds&nbsp;- January, 2015*Development of venture funding sources for resident teams - January, 2015*Development of a scholarship fund to help those who cannot afford to take part schools that are underrepresented in entrepreneurship at the expense of a part time job - March, 2016*Development of an indepth entrepreneurship-focused alumni database - April, 2016current residency in order to get more students with these backgrounds involved.

Key Milestones<span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e334ee83-9312-5c5d-00be-3c5417e44c1d"><span style="font-family: Oswald; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A. Change in Marketing Language</span></span></span>

Proposed Solutions: *More hands on, one off workshops on topics such as design thinking, intrapreneurship, and other less-startup focused topics.*Creation of more non-engineering design classes that focus on applying design to other contexts, such as journalism, organizations, and social impact.*Offering more classes that cover the basics of entrepreneurship through case studies and other methods rather than student startups.    <div><br/></div>'''<span style="font-size:large;">Part IV: Making Entrepreneurship and Student Life More Northwestern Culture Compatible&nbsp;</span>'''

'''&nbsp; '''While entrepreneurship requires large amounts of dedication, time, and effort and should not be easy, there are steps that can be taken to make it easier to be pursued without jeopardizing one’s academic career and promoting a healthy less stressful lifestyle.&nbsp;  <span style="font-family: Oswald; font-size: larger; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A. Increasing Academic Entrepreneurhsip Opportunities</span> Proposed Solutions: *Increased marketing and offering of the Farley independent study program.*Increase the Number of Design Courses Offered Outside of McCormick*Development of a Design and Innovation Requirement'''&nbsp;'''

*Offering of more independent study opportunities for students pursuing entrepreneurship <span style="font-family: Oswald; font-size: 14.4px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre- January, 2016wrap;">B. Meshing Entrepreeurhsip and Northwestern Culture</span> Proposed Solutions: *Initial formal recommendation to Increase the faculty Number of the School of Education and Social Policy “Entrepreneurial Intersections”*Place an Emphasis on the importance Benefits of an innovation and design reguirement - January, 2016Entrepreneurship in All Contexts*Implentation of an innovation and design requirement into the Learning Sciences and Learning and Organizational Change Curriculums - December, 2016Seek Out Additional Ways to Help Student Carry Their Entrepreneurial Experiences Over to The Classroom

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