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<span style="font-size:small;">The Changemaker Hub is a resource for students on campus to actively learn and engage with social justice and social innovation on both a global and local scale. The Changemaker Hub is a central location on campus that facilitates students getting involvedwithin their communities as well as on and off campus. This The Hub is also an Ashoka U certified organization on our campus. Furthermore, the Hub and is dedicated to teaching students the method and importance of design-thinking. There have been Every semester, there are a number of workshops put on centered around design-thinking, including entrepreneurship, and innovation. One example of a design-thinking workshop is the LAUNCH program. LAUNCH is a six-week design thinking bootcamp put on by the Changemaker Hubevery semester.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">Because the Changemaker Hub is so central to campus, their there are a myriad of events that take place within it. Not only this, but the Hub is working to collaborate with other clubs on campus to reach the student body even more. Pancake Peeps just recently merged with the Changemaker Hub in 2019. Pancake Peeps is a club that was begun started by a dedicated studentwho was involved with the Changemaker Hub, and is now an extremely popular program. Every Saturday, students carpool to Downtown, San Diego. Here, the students to cook pancakes for the local homeless population.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, Outdoor Adventures is a wide-reaching program on campus. Many students resonate with the love of being outdoors. Outdoor Adventures goes on frequent trips, as well as a retreat before the school year even starts. A lot of students begin to feel really at home with the Outdoor Adventures community, and are able to bond with new friends in the outdoors!</span>

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Due to the nature of being small class sizes, faculty and students are very closely connected. Most teachers know all or at least a majority of their students names. The smaller environment makes many students feel more comfortable and feel like they can approach their professors. In comparison, professors also feel closer to their students becuase they have such small class sizes. Professors make sure to offer their time in different classesoffice hours regularly.</font> <font face="arial, helvetica, having different friendssans-serif" size="2">Furthermore, because students and even living in different areas teachers are so close, many faculty on campus facilitates are passionate about helping students with their endeavours, whether these endeavours are academic or not. For example, work study students are given the opportunity to work closely with faculty members and learn what it is like to be in a completely different experience for each studentbusiness. HoweverFor instance,students may participate in staff meetings.&nbsp;</font>

Students at USD offers a wide range could be more closely integrated during Freshman Year. Due to the spread out locations of events on-campus dorms, many poeple struggle to meet others outside of their living area on campus. The freshman orientation includes many activities and opportunities for field trips where students from diverse backgrounds but we can still improve some aspects of our campusare randomly paired together, no matter where they live. We feel that we can re-imagine parts would love to facilitate more of the Freshmen Orientation experience so as these trips to accommodate bring opportunities for students all students better and ensure we are offering the most engaging and innovative opportunities our over campus has to offermeet each other. &nbsp;

<u>University of San Diego Strategic Priorities and Pitch Video</u> 2019 Cohort: Strategic priorities described in: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_San_Diego_Student_Priorities Session 4 Strategic Priorities] 2018 Cohort: Strategic priorities video:&nbsp;[https://youtu.be/6y2aofmyf-M https://youtu.be/6y2aofmyf-M]   <u>Members of UIF team:</u> ''2019 Cohort'' [[Erica buyalos|Erica Buyalos]] [[Sophia_Austin|Sophia Austin]] [[Tanya_Keval|Tanya Keval]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Linnea_Leidy Linnea Leidy]

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