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<span style="font-size:medium;">Ohio Northern University is an independent university located in Ada, Ohio. The school has 3,108 088 students representing 34 38 states and 26 23 countries. A trait unique to ONU is the “one to one” relationship between students and professors. The reputation for ONU’s strong bond between the student body and the professors is attributed to the 11:1 student/faculty ratio. Ohio Northern University strives to provide students with the best faculty which is why 8386% of ONU’s full time faculty have a Ph.D. or a terminal degreesdegree. ONU is nationally ranked for the sciences, arts, and professional programs in the following colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Pharmacy and Law. It has led to an astounding 9495% placement rate within six months after of graduation in all colleges.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium;">More can be found at:</span>[http://www.onu.edu/about_onu about http://www.onu.edu/about_onuabout]

= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">'''Mission,&nbsp;Vision, and Core Values'''</span> =<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ohio Northern University’s core values include: collaboration, community, diversity, excellence, faith, integrity, and service. ONU strives to be a unique educational institution that cultivates academic excellence at the undergraduate level. Each of Northern’s colleges promote undergraduate research and experiential learning. The T.J. Smull College of Engineering implements experiential, hands-on learning through the in part due to small class sizes. Their mission statement is “to engage students through personal relationships and high-impact educational experiences to maximize their success”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">ONU 2021 is Northern’s strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees to further Northern’s momentum of success. The plan demonstrates ONU’s strategic direction and focus on goals to be improved upon or accomplished by 2021. The strategic goals and priorities seek to advance ONU at all levels and are as follows:</span></p>*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Enhance excellence and distinctiveness of the university’s academic programs</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strengthen the campus learning environment</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Support a commitment to the University’s core values and foster a campus culture that engages and values all members of the University community</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Attract, retain, and graduate the optimal number, quality and profile of students</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Engage with more communities and organizations through mutually beneficial strategic partnerships</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build and maintain long-term financial sustainability</span></div>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Achieve greater public recognition and awareness of University programs and engage our constituents to increase their level of involvement and philanthropic support</span></div>

<span style="font-size:medium;">More can be found at:[http://www.onu.edu/about_onu about http://www.onu.edu/about_onuabout].</span>

= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">'''Promoting Student Innovation & Entrepreneuership'''</span><br/> =

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<span style="font-size: medium;">ONU seeks to implement opportunities for both new and existing academic program growth. The most recent academic Recently the Dicke College of Business Administration program growth is the recently added an entrepreneurship program. The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration offers numerous courses that encourage the learning and application of innovation and entrepreneurship, opening the opportunity for the program to offer an entrepreneurship minor for any major, as well as, an engineering including courses geared towards the entrepreneurship for in engineering majorsand pharmacy.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: medium;">ONU is a member of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network.&nbsp;<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">KEEN is a true collective effort of universities that are focused on preparing students to be entrepreneurial and innovative in engineering and technology.&nbsp; The KEEN Network provides Ohio Northern University grants which are used to sponsor events like the KEEN Challenge and the Polar Elevator Pitch competition, as well as, the entrepreneurship program.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Northern’s new entrepreneurship program offers a plethora of opportunities for students of all majors to study, as well as, participate in spurring innovation and creativity beginning on-campus and continuing through to the professional level. ONU recently hired an Industry Liaison through the KEEN grant to foster entrepreneurship and innovation campus wide.</span> 

== <span style="font-size:medium;large">[[File:Polar Pitch Elevator Competition.jpg|border|left|Polar Pitch Elevator Competition.jpg]]</span><br/> ==

<span style="font-size:medium;">The [[File:Polar Pitch Elevator Competition.jpg|border|left|Polar Pitch Elevator Competition prompt for students is to: captivate them with your creativity, engage them with your entrepreneurial mindset, and ignite your innovative side.jpg]]</span>

<span style== "font-size: medium">Students from all majors are invited to participate and courses such as Principles of Entrepreneurship and Intro to Engineering 2 require participation within this competition as part of an in class project. The Pitch competition has the following competition categories: ideas that improve society, high-tech commercialized product ideas, as-seen-on TV product ideas, and new businesses that creates jobs. First place participants win the grand prize and gain the opportunity to receive advice and instruction to take the winning idea from an idea to an actual product to the market.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/span> ==

<span style="font-size: medium;">The second innovative event is the KEEN Innovation Challenge sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network and ONU. The challenge is held on a semester basis, with no two challenges being the same. Teams of three require at least one engineering student. The premise of the challenge is that each team exercise innovation and creativity in the impromptu challenges with a given set of materials.</span><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>== [[File:KEEN Innovation Challenge.jpg]]<br/> == 

 == Tinker Lab Maker Space ==<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ff3bab9-7fff-2946-1630-057ea3a06f03"><span style="font-size: medium11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two resources The Maker Space is an area where innovative students can create exciting projects that students can utilize on vary over a daily basis are the Machine Shop wide range of areas due to its wide range of tools and Tinker Lab located resources. It was first started in 2019 with the Biggs completion of construction of the James Lehr Kennedy Engineering Building. The Tinker Lab It is a room complete with 3D printers that enable an area utilized by faculty and students to print out models of designs and projectsalike.</span></span></p><div>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=2Tk_SrMxDf4}}</div>

<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><span style="font-size: medium;">More can be found at:</span>&nbsp;

<span style="font-size: medium;">[http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509 http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509]</span> 

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[[Ohio Northern University Student Priorities|Ohio Northern University Student Priorities]http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Todd_Federici Todd Federici]

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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_Hull Connor Hull]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kenton_Jarvis Kenton Jarvis]