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Susquehanna University is a small private liberal arts University college located in the town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna's motto University is dedicated to achievehelping students become proactive leaders through academics, service, lead and servepersonal assets, which is represented through the University motto “Achieve, Lead, Serve”. Susquehanna also allows students to take a step forward, engage and enter new conversations facilitate conversation through our various clubs and organizations, as well as through our Global Opportunities (GO) program, which connects students with the world and its various cultures through by establishing a study abroad GO academic requirement. While there are some opportunities for Innovation innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)entrepreneurship, such as participating in the recently implemented Entrepreneurship & and Innovation minor, the university still has lots of room for improvement.
One of the biggest challenges that Susquehanna faces is the lack of collaboration between the business school Sigmund Weis Business School and the school School of arts Arts and sciencesSciences. Students usually feel limited by their departments focus on individual departmental disciplines and associate the words "entrepreneurship" and "innovation" strictly with business. The main objective of our University Innovation Fellows Leadership Circle is to implement more I&E innovation and entrepreneurship programs on campus and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.<p style="text-align: center;">'''Spring 2015 Pitch:'''- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI]</p><p style="text-align: center;"> '''Fall 2016 Pitch:''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA]< '''Fall 2019 Pitch''' - [https://youtu.be/p>Fb30yXi1k9s https://youtu.be/Fb30yXi1k9s]
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== '''STRATEGY ONE: DRIVE INNOVATIVE MOMENTUM INTRO TO INNOVATION COURSE''' == Develop and introduce an introduction to innovation course catering to all majors and possibly required for incoming first-years to take. We are collaborating on this project together however Liz Ludwig has currently taken charge. *Develop class syllabus and research textbooks*Ideal Start-up date - Fall 2020.*Integrate various concepts of core curriculum and SWSB learning goals to effectively instruct students in a liberal arts capacity. **Focus on Innovation and or Entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary focus.**Grow exposure of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor on campus.**Encourage awareness from all majors and class years to the importance of innovation in all fields.**Bridge the gap between students of differing majors and encourage group project work with unfamiliar faces.**Solve problems on campus through student-eyes.*Develop a a plan to sustain the course as a foundation of first-year learning for all the years to come, including plans on possible professors who may be teaching the course along with UIF TAs*Identify resources and funding available to students, faculty, and staff for class projects and class trips/assessments. == '''STRATEGY TWO: REIMAGINE INNOVATION CLUB''' ==
Raise awareness about Eliminate innovation and entrepreneurshipdisciplinary stigma to encourage innovation outside of the classroom - participation in the now 'dead' DICE innovation club. We are collaborating on this project together, and ideas on campushowever Andrea Repetz has currently taken charge.
*Inspire Understand current underrepresentation of academic disciplines on campus and promote interdisciplinary collaboration through incorporate new innovative eventssolutions for departmental engagement including participation in the club - "DICE" - as a part of a class, or outside of academic purposes.**TEDx Susquehanna: Spring 2018Create events catered to various disciplines, such as the arts, to encourage creativity and original thinking on campus.**Pitch Contest: Spring 2018*Initiate PR campaign in order Hold campus events to involve students in University Innovation Fellows (UIF), innovation on campus showcase student creations and ideas - and event planning also recruit for TEDx and Pitch Contest the club.**Focus Utilize on entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary subject-campus creative spaces to raise awareness of such design spaces to gain further interest in innovation club.**Grow exposure Encourage use of the Entrepreneurship new& Innovation minor across campus*Develop continuity plan to have funding established in advance for every semester of UIF to eliminate gaps in fellow classes and create stability and sustainabilitynbsp;makerspace to facilitate conversation and hold events in the new establishment.*Identify sources of funding available *Speak to students, faculty the first-year community about creative spaces and staffencourage discussion - possibly integrate first year innovation course (Strategy 1)**Option for funding for students working with faculty or staff mentors on Bring organizations to campus to understand current problems in innovation projectsin other academic fields of study.**Publicize fund including application Identify needs on campus and award processcollaborate with local partners to create innovative events pertaining to underrepresented fields of study, such as the arts.**Establish separate pots of funding for Engage local businesses to help students, faculty see innovation as a constant process and staffnot commodity based.
== '''STRATEGY TWOTHREE: DEVELOP MAKERSPACE/CENTER FOR DESIGN, INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOPS''' ==
*Create an event on campus to facilitate innovation and diversity through a physical center workshop experience designed for all backgrounds. We are currently collaborting on this project together however Sam Brumagin has taken charge.*Host small group collaboration projects between departments in innovative makerspace.**Individuals from the creative writing department write a creative piece (poetry, short story, etc.) and other individuals from the design or painting department paint about the creative piece or vise versa.**Students outside of the innovation course may be interested in solving a problem on campus during these workshops and proposing it for actual implementation purposes**Games and Brain-Teasers will be provided at Susquehannathese events as icebreakers*Host event where students learn how to work through the creative process and students and or faculty in various departments can facilitate workshops.
*Discover exact student needs for components of the space*Evaluate potential spaces**Create space where the local community may have access**Find funding and designate space *Utilize as a creative, DIY space where students can gather to create, invent and learn**Often includes 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools*Host pop-up classes regarding lean startup, design thinking and more**Pop-up class highlighting previous successes regarding innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and what made them successful**“Speed-dating” session between staff, faculty, students and local businesses*Involve community in the makerspace to collaborate and discover what problems locals need solved*Bring industries to campus in order to understand current problems**Identify needs in our region/county/town and collaborate with local partners to innovate**Engage local businesses to help students see innovation as a process and not necessarily just technology/product based**Assist nonprofits with communication documents***Partner with Johnson Center for Civic Engagement and Greek Life to increase service opportunities in this realm== '''STRATEGY FOUR: REVITALIZE INNOVATION SPACE''' ==
== STRATEGY THREE: STRENGTHEN AND GROW EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES ==*Innovation Space in Library is currently unused by many students across campus. We are collaborating on this project together as a group.**Host fun events - innovation movie nights, food "workshops," innovative lectures and speakers, etc.*Encourage more professors to utilize the space for hosting class.**Use of innovative tools in the space during class may foster a more exciting learning environment.**Invite neighboring schools for innovative workshop activities.*Create more community-based thinking in solving real world problems.**Invite high school students studying innovation-based courses to learn and collaborate.
*Integrate experiential learning into existing curriculum for all students**Establish at least one experiential course in every academic department*Partner with Political Science department and interested students, faculty and staff to leverage our role as a large Snyder County employer in order to promote pro-innovation policies in Harrisburg*Increase student involvement in long-term research (projects lasting at least two semesters)*Strengthen and expand on offerings and aspects of Susquehanna’s Global Opportunities/Cross Cultural Study Abroad Requirement**Create mechanism for students studying abroad to contribute to recruiting international students== '''STRATEGY FIVE: short-term or degree-seeking**Establish template for returning GO students who are now inspired to engage with world-wide service or community engagement: “plug and play” into local community***Additionally, establish template for departing GO students to proactively research volunteer opportunities they will have while abroad/research nonprofits in the area*Establish a “life-entrepreneurship” type program for first year and sophomore students based on: who am I, where am I going, and how do I get there?**Focus on values – how to best incorporate values into career path and goals**Create and sustain a culture of self-efficacy and self-governance, particularly in the residence halls*Involve students in applied research**Create an innovative Global Opportunities (GO) Short program tied to a faculty’s research, involving continuous research before and after the trip**Begin with identifying a problem, then return to solve the problem, and later implement innovative idea abroadBRING INNOVATIVE SPEAKERS TO CAMPUS''' ==
== STRATEGY FOUR: IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE HEALTH STRATEGIES ==Encourage more academia involvement in innovation and entrepreneurship on campus by inviting various speakers of different disciplines to further educate students and faculty on campus. We are collaborating on this project together however Donovan Gayles has taken charge.
*Bring movement to students: install walking desks Understand the lack of innovative education on campus (treadmill with desk attached, enabling students and the need for outside experts to exercise come in and study simultaneously)provide the education**Start with Create a few speaker series similar to the Arts speaker series in which Innovative speakers come in throughout the library andsemester/or makerspace, eventually have more in academic buildingsyear during various months to speak to students*Increase student input regarding dining/cuisine options through easier feedback mechanism*Speakers will be of varying industries and fields to attract students of all majors*Partner with Aramark to increase culinary education events Utilize on -campuscreative spaces to have speakers**Opportunities for students to learn how to cook through Adulting 101-Sessions Establish and Residential Life Community Programshost a TEDx talk on campus.*Launch color system at dining locations: red, yellow, green for healthiness level of food options to give perspective of ratio of healthy to unhealthy options and encourage healthy behavior*Utilize a guest speaker or faculty
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= Related links =
Pitch Video, (Fall 20162019) {{#Widget:Youtube|id=Fb30yXi1k9s}} Pitch Video (Fall 2018) {{#Widget:Youtube|id=xmRyLXyqz9k}}
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=uhbBjd26XYA}}Cohort Change Story Platform (Fall 2017)
Pitch Video, Spring 2015[https://www.facebook.com/SusquehannaUIF/ https://www.facebook.com/SusquehannaUIF/]
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=V6fupPb51eI}}Pitch Video (Fall 2016)
[http{{#Widget://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Susquehanna_University_Student_Priorities Susquehanna University Student Priorities]Youtube|id=uhbBjd26XYA}}
'''Students:'''Pitch Video (Spring 2015)
[http{{#Widget://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ethan_Eastwood Ethan Eastwood] (Spring 2015)Youtube|id=V6fupPb51eI}}
[http:<br//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexis_Gargin Alexis Gargin] (Spring 2015)>'''Susquehanna University - University Innovation Fellows'''
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Pierce_Logan_Perkins Pierce Logan PerkinsSusquehanna_University Susquehanna University] (Spring 2015)
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tiffany_Richards Tiffany RichardsSusquehanna_University_Student_Priorities Susquehanna University Student Priorities] (Spring 2015)
[[Hana Feiner|Hana Feiner]] (Fall 2016)University Innovation Fellows
2015 Fellows: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ethan_Eastwood Ethan Eastwood], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexis_Gargin Alexis Gargin], [Aviel Stein|Aviel Steinhttp://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Pierce_Logan_Perkins Pierce Logan Perkins], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tiffany_Richards Tiffany Richards] (Fall 2016)
2016 Fellows: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hana_Feiner Hana Feiner], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Aviel_Stein Aviel Stein],[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rachel_Tate Rachel Tate|Rachel Tate]] (Fall 2016)
2017 Fellows: [Tonia Hall], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexandra_Haller|Alexandra Haller], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:DamianMunoz Damian Munoz], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Daniel_Yim Daniel Yim] (Fall 2017)
2018 Fellows: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Leah_Cieniawa Leah Cieniawa], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brianna_Murphy Brianna Murphy], [DamianMunoz|Damian Munoz http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joseph_Morante Joseph Morante], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_Williams Kyle Williams](Fall 2017)
2019 Fellows: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Samantha_Brumagin Samantha Brumagin], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Donovan_Gayles Donovan Gayles], [Daniel_Yim|Daniel Yim http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elizabeth_ludwig Elizabeth Ludwig], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andrea_Repetz Andrea Repetz](Fall 2017)
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