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The University of Oklahoma has momentum and a lot of potential when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Through mapping all the resources on campus, it has been determined that there are a few key areas where University Innovation Fellows and faculty can come together to further advance entrepreneurship on our campus.

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== Strategy #1: Improve Inter-Major Collaboration ==

= 2015 Strategies =

== Strategy #1: Foster a Sense of Community~~ =~~=

*Tactic #1: Create Meaningful Connections

*Tactic #1: Student Project Form

*Description - With a form for students to fill put and present their ideas to faculty, the hope is that students can work with and get feedback from professors who have experience in a field that could be beneficial to the students success in whatever startup/project they are pursuing. Currently if a student is interested in working on research they can search the OU website for professors and see what they are researching. If the student is also interested they can reach out to the Professor and ask to help with their research. Taking this concept, but refining and reversing it, I want to create a way for students to present a startup/project by filling out a form and getting a list of faculty that could be beneficial to their ideas and means to contact them. In addition, a step further would be to notify faculty when an idea has been presented by a student that falls under their experience. If the professor is interested or has knowledge to offer to the student they can choose to contact the student back.

*Team Lead: Ashley Findley

*Milestones -

**Develop a form for Students to fill out that match the student’s project/idea with Faculty in that area of interest***Generate interest among students to work with faculty on projects outside of academics.

***Generate interest with Faculty to get involved with Students whose forms match their expertise.

*Tactic #1: Organize Current Resources and Create Network

*Description - As a student at the University of Oklahoma, I have had the privelege to meet, and even become friends with, amazingly brilliant and talented students. They dream, they aspire, they are creative and motivated. Unfortunately, I have seen many suffer from serious problems such as depression and anxiety. This can inhibit the creative process along with the motivation and desire to accomplish even greater things. The idea is to establish greater opportunities for mental health improvement on campus. Furthermore, the awareness of the limited disability resources causes many unique students to struggle. It is becoming more widely known that diversity drives innovation and students with disabilities can be factored into this array of diversity. Greater resources and awareness will allow students with disabilities to contribute even more on campus.

*Team Lead: Laura Davis

*Milestones -

**Create an easy to find resource page on the OU website of all resources currently available to students**Have seperate counselors trained on the specific stressers by college or major

**Have time management and positive coping seminars for students

**Monitored semi-anonymous student forum as a student support group

*Tactic #1: Create a Resource for Students to Discover Interest Areas

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*Description - I am a first generation college student. People might see this phrase on programs or scholarship eligibility requirements and understand that it is an under-represented minority. Though, for me, it means I did not grow up with the same influences that students with parents who have graduated from college do. Fortunately for me, I was able to find a passion in Architectural Engineering. Many students like me, or even students with far different backgrounds, don't know what their passion is. Maybe they have not had a hands-on experience with creating something, working in depth on accounting for a start up, sculpting something to express themselves, or making a program on a computer. A student is unlikely to thrive, innovate and create if they are not passionate enough to stick with a goal and it is difficult to know what you enjoy if you haven't done it yet. My project will be based around helping students find their passions based on their personality and preferences and then be matched to the plethora of resources that can inspire them here at the University of Oklahoma.

*Milestones -

**Create a resource for students, similar to an aptitude test, that will find student interests. Unlike an aptitude test, it will provide a list of resources (such as mentors, student organizations, campus resources, competitions, centers, etc.) for students to go to on campus to have hands-on experience with extra-ciriculars related to their interests.

= Previous Strategies =

*Description - We are hoping that the creative space will be our Design Space, "Makery," Maker Space, etc., where students can come and design their new ideas. We want this to be our Google Garage, if you will. This fabrication lab will have a 3D printer, all the office supplies imaginable, tinkering spaces, and tools.

*~~~~Milestones - Maker space acquired in the University Research Park.

*Collaboration space developed in university library

*~~~~Set to launch in Spring 2016*~~~~Director being hired

*Tactic #2: IBM Design  '''                                      ''' ==

*Tactic #1: Creativity Course

*Description - In our time spent at Stanford, many of the professors described the classes they taught as creativity courses where crazy brainstorming and rapid prototyping is a key portion of the class. At OU, we have very little of this. Almost all classes, even in the Visual Communications department, are focused on traditional lecture classes. One of our main goals is to promote this creative thinking through working with professors to offer a creative thinking course similar to the one Tina Seelig teaches. This can initially be something that is offered to just a few students and once the benefits are seen, and it is shown that students enjoy using their hands to prototype with PlayDoh and other materials during class, we will look into expanding to offer more classes.*Team Leaders - Ryan Phillips*Milestones -**First class offered - Fall 2014**First Creativity major offered - Fall 2014**Other majors required to take course in creative thinking - Fall 2016

*Tactic #2: Learning By Doing Across Majors

*Description - There are few ideas that span every major at a major university, but one that is absolutely true for each is the fact that a student learns more by doing rather than listening. Universities like Stanford have begun to implement this with the d.school being open to all majors, but OU is slow in this area. If we want students to be as well-prepared as possible when graduating, we need to get the students doing projects that have real-world impacts and allow the students to get hands-on experience. To do this, we can partner with local businesses and work directly with them to develop projects that a small team of students can work on.*Team Leaders - Ryan Phillips*Milestones -**First agreement with company for students to work on project - Fall 2014**Integrate into class - Spring 2015

*Tactic #3: Presidential Dream Creativity Course

= Related Links =

[[~~University of Oklahoma|~~University of Oklahoma]]

'''University of Oklahoma Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2016: [[~~Brad Morrow~~Holly Crawford|~~'''Brad Morrow'''~~Holly Crawford]]

~~~~[~~http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lauren_Abston Lauren Abston~~[Brad Morrow|Brad Morrow]]~~~~

~~[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ryan_Phillips Ryan Phillips]~~

~~~~[~~http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexandra_Hamon Alexandra Hamon~~[Candace Alsenay|Candace Alsenay]]~~~~

[[Laura C Davis|Laura C Davis]]

[[Ashley Findley|Ashley Findley]]

[[~~Candace Alsenay~~Alexandra Hamon|~~Candace Alsenay~~Alexandra Hamon]] Spring 2014: [[Lauren Abston|Lauren Abston]] [[Ryan Phillips|Ryan Phillips]]

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