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As the Spring 2016 UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Technological University, we hope to increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets across campus. In 5 to 10 years we want to come back to see engineers working with artists, chemists creating alongside social scientists, and business professionals collaborating with human ecologists. We hope to see greater and stronger student-faculty relationships, students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of freshman year, and a greater use of campus and regional resources to help students and faculty bring their ambitions to life. Above all, we hope to see innovative thinking become the standard, not the exception.

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~~'''Fall 2019 PRIORITIES'''~~

~~== STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Chad Wilson ==~~

~~==== Financial Education & Accountibilty for Students ====~~

='''Fall 2019 PRIORITIES'~~t be handing over their parents life savings if they didn~~'~~t believe they wouldn~~'t get a return on their tuition. So many students today find themselves in financial crisis both in and outside of school. They struggle with the almighty student loan debt crisis, credit cards, car loans and personal spending all while expected to buy a home and live the American Dream. My proposal is to implement a student run organization or club that brings students from Tennessee Tech together to discuss these important topics. Students should be able to create lofty, financial goals for themselves and their legacy yet, nobody has told them that they can achieve a high level of financial success. I will be the first of their peers to tell them that anything they can conceive, they can achieve. We will discuss the steps necessary in creating wealth, create goals, live by those goals, and inspire financial change for our generation.  ====

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6oo2HFwLM Fall 2019 Video]

STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Chad Wilson

==== Financial Education & Accountibilty for Students ====

If you asked any college student, "why are you in college" they would tell you they are chasing a career. Of course, they wouldn't be handing over their parents life savings if they didn't believe they wouldn't get a return on their tuition. So many students today find themselves in financial crisis both in and outside of school. They struggle with the almighty student loan debt crisis, credit cards, car loans and personal spending all while expected to buy a home and live the American Dream. My proposal is to implement a student run organization or club that brings students from Tennessee Tech together to discuss these important topics. Students should be able to create lofty, financial goals for themselves and their legacy yet, nobody has told them that they can achieve a high level of financial success. I will be the first of their peers to tell them that anything they can conceive, they can achieve. We will discuss the steps necessary in creating wealth, create goals, live by those goals, and inspire financial change for our generation. 

== STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Rachel Smith ==

==== Team Building & Leadership Skills for Students ====

Many students face issues when it comes to working with a team for class projects or in their work and home lives. Many students don’t know how to face these issues, which makes working in a team, for any reason, frustrating. Students also have been vocal about the lack of leadership skills they have. Several students that I have talked with have mentioned that leadership is something that they are never really taught; all throughout high school, they are taught to follow, but never how to be the one that is followed. For my project, I want to offer these skills to students in a way that can be fun and stress-free, but also provide them with what they need to succeed. My idea is to offer a 1 credit hour course that offers team building and leadership skills to all students in an outdoor setting. This course would be a 4-5-week course offered in the spring. Participating students would meet once a week for an outdoor activity that involves either teamwork, leadership from each student, or both. After course completion, each student would have skills on how to effectively work as a team member in a functional group, and how to take the leadership role in a situation. This will help students with class projects as well as in any entrepreneurial role they may take on. 

== STUDENT PRIORITY #3: Mik Davis ==

==== Integrating Student Information Networks  ====

<span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most confusing and challenging aspects of adjusting to college life is learning how to access resources. During our first interactions with campus life, students are often given many business cards, phone numbers and pamphlets about campus resources that are quickly lost or forgotten about. From health services to student organizations, there are information networks across campus that are available to students but not interconnected. This can make it difficult for students to find out what is going on across campus and how to access resources available to them. This strategic priority is focused on integrating those information networks for student access. This includes fostering cooperation between academic and administrative units that disseminate information, creating new networks of information and new distribution and reviving old networks that are underutilized. This will be accomplished through revitalizing and reopening the television broadcasting studio on campus and making it available for student use. The studio will serve as the new hub for information dissemination across campus, from academics to administration to student life; there will be one source to fuel and connect many networks.

== STUDENT PRIORITY #4: Courtney Savage ==

==== Spreading Knowledge of I&E and Available Resources Through Collaboration ====

While our campus offers diverse opportunities and resources in the field of innovation, many students are unaware of the possibilities. In addition, several opportunities are reserved for students from specific departments. My idea is to introduce the various aspects of I&E by building a club of students from different majors and backgrounds who will learn about I&E through a hands-on approach. The re-establishment of iCARE, a social entrepreneurship club, will make this introduction possible. The goals of iCARE are to introduce and explain the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship, inspire students to take an active role in the well-being of their community, and integrate the ideas and skills of students across campus. iCARE will work to complete these goals in several different ways. We will invite speakers who have mixed innovation with social entrepreneurship to build interest in I&E. The first project of iCARE will be a collaboration with a local Senior Center. Students will learn about the design process throughout this project. They will communicate with the older adults at the center to determine any difficulties they may face on a day-to-day basis. The older adults and students will work together to brainstorm possible solutions and develop a prototype. This will serve as an introduction to the I&E resources (such as the iMakerSpace) available on campus. By collaborating with the outside community we hope to introduce and promote I&E on a larger scale. 

= SPRING 2017 PRIORITIES =

= STUDENT PRIORITY #2B: JACQUELINE SCHULZ =

== '''RUSH UIF BEGINNING OF THE YEAR EVENT SERIES[[File:RushUIFlogo Purple.png|frame~~|RushUIFlogo Purple.png~~]]''' ==

RUSH UIF is a four part event series which seeks to expose students to Innovation & Entrepreneurship in fun and exciting ways and increase student awareness of the underlying prevalence of Innovation & Entrepreneurship in our culture today. Each event is very different from the last, targeting a different reason or avenue for I&E involvement. This year's series took place August 29th, 2016 - September 1st, 2016.

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Fall 2019:

[[Courtney Savage|Courtney Savage]]

[[Mik Davis|Mik Davis]]

[[Rachel N. Smith|Rachel N. Smith]]

Fall 2016:

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