<h1> = Overview of Strategies </h1>=<h1> Strategy 1 </h1><h2> First Year Experience (FYE) Class </h2><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahomaarial,genevahelvetica,sans-serif;">Western Michigan University, like many other colleges<span id="docs-internal-guid-366a9176-7fff-155d-1884-330ad60d6338" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, offers a list of courses designed specifically for first year students. These First Year Experience (FYE) classes are designed to connect new students to faculty, staff, student leaders and peers to facilitate their success. Additionally, this two credit course provides great opportunities for students to explore their personal interests and discover the available student organizations that are pursuing these innitiatives at a professional level. A full description 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Western Michigan University has many opportunities for different types of these courses and curriculum can be found here (innovation </span><a hrefspan style="httpfont-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian://wmich.edu/fye/firstyearnormal; font-variant-seminar.html">httpposition://wmich.edu/fye/firstyearnormal; vertical-seminar.html</a>). As an already existing course that accesses align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on campus, for example, the majority of freshmanannual pitch competition, this is a very attractive opportunity to instill and promote the values Innovation Club, and our campus makerspace. While we recognize all of the amazing opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship already present here at WMUWestern, we have also come to understand the endless potential our university has for growth. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-familyvariant-ligatures: tahoma, geneva, sansnormal; font-variant-east-serifasian: normal; font-sizevariant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: smallpre-wrap;">To gain access through these coursesAs University Innovation Fellows, we have gained access to more resources than we knew existed. Here we present what exactly those improvements are, so that we may positively begin to impact the following tactics should be implemented:student experience.</span></pspan><p/span></span> = <span style="font-size: smallx-large; "><span style="font-family: tahomaarial, genevahelvetica, sans-serif; line">Strategy 1</span></span> = == <span style="font-heightsize: 1large; vertical"><span style="font-alignfamily: baseline; whitearial,helvetica,sans-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;">Tactic #1- Begin Marketing for Campus Connections</span></span> == <span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahomaarial, genevahelvetica, sans-serif; line"><span style="font-heightsize: 1small; vertical-align"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">by meeting with There is a lack of cohesive marketing of the leaders who design the FYE program WMU values within campus and see what is involved in editing curriculum or creating even externally. We are a new section to include entrepreneurship in each FYE section for a few week periodtop 100 research university, but students aren’t always taking advantage of these opportunities.  How do we start asking the right questions? </span></p><p><span style="fontcaret-familycolor:tahomargb(0,geneva0,sans0); font-variant-serifligatures: normal;"><span style="fontfont-variant-east-sizeasian:smallnormal;"><span id="docsfont-internalvariant-guidposition: normal; vertical-31c57597align: baseline; white-af74space: pre-7c67-ac29-cc22a7f6e25a"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentwrap;">Tactic #2- Work<The previous UIF group is trying to assuage this need with the Think Big campaign. Helping them continue to grow in this process and supporting the university in this endeavor is the best way to continue to grow in this area. We aim to drum up support and attendance for events like town hall meetings.</span></span style></span> = <span style="verticalfont-alignsize: baselinex-large; white"><span style="font-spacefamily: prearial,helvetica,sans-wrapserif; background">Strategy 2</span></span> = == <span style="font-colorsize: transparentlarge;">closely with entrepreneurship professors across campus find out what they would want to include in the FYE class schedule. Educate students and help them learn more about what innovation and entrepreneuship are and how their benefits can apply to every professional enterprise.</span></span></span<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Improving Campus Culture</span></span>== </p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; "><font-family: face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Successful incorporation C^3 is an initiative to connect students to each other and to peer mentors who can aid in the overall understanding of I&E ideals into this program could begin a long lasting tradition an individual topic. This helps create an environment of first year student participation in UIF's goalslearning and teamwork. </spanfont></p><p><img src="/images/7/71/WMU_FYE.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="WMU FYE.jpg" _fck_mw_location="none" alt="Western Michigan's First Year Experience Program" /></p><h1> Strategy 2 </h1><h2> Innovation Space </h2><p><span stylespan style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-familyvariant-east-asian:tahoma,geneva,sansnormal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-serifalign: baseline;"><span style="fontwhite-sizespace:smallpre-wrap;">Being Western is a division one university, Western Michigan has a large campus full community of often underutilized classroom and community spaces. This availability of spacewell rounded students, and input from current students highlights focused on expanding themselves beyond the desire and plausibility for a successfully developed innovation spacetraditional student expectations. Existing labs and spaces Students today are available for student use, but access and availability are limitedpressured from all angles to improve constantly. Additionally This kind of pressure can cause a lot of students to isolate themselves within their major, these spaces only have potential to serve as innovation spaces; becoming disconnected from the rest of campus because they are not labeled or considered as such by current so focused on trying to keep themselves a float with grades and adulthood. A lot of studentswho feel outside of campus culture are not likely to continue their education at Western.</span></span></p><p><span style="style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-sizefamily: smallArial; font-familyvariant-ligatures: tahoma, geneva, sansnormal; font-serif;">To accomplish this project, the following tactics should be consideredvariant-east-asian:</span></p><p><span style="normal; font-familyvariant-position:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="verticalnormal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #1: By creating a culture focused on collaboration and innovation, we will not only improve the lives of students but our university as a who</span><span style="verticalfont-alignfamily: baselinearial,helvetica,sans-serif; white-space"><span style="caret-color: prergb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-wrapligatures: normal; backgroundfont-variant-east-colorasian: transparentnormal;"> font-variant-position: normal;Allocate vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">le.  </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;Identify which spaces could be available for innovation and have an in depth understanding for what will need background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We intend to be done to each for it to be functionalcreate a group of talent seekers who find students at Western with great, new, innovative ideas and then recognize them on a platform like Instagram or YouTube. A student committee nominating and putting the spotlight on their peers.</span></span></span> = </p><pspan style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:tahomaarial,genevahelvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy 3</span></span> = == <span style="font-size:smalllarge;"><span style="verticalfont-alignfamily: baseline; whitearial,helvetica,sans-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;">Tactic #2:Interdisciplinary Collaboration</span></span style> =="vertical <span style="font-alignfamily: baseline; whitearial,helvetica,sans-space: pre-wrapserif; background"><span style="font-colorsize: transparentsmall;">Develope an accountability system to make sure that the spaces are being used and reserved in an orderly way.  A system easily available for students to reserve the spaces for limited time and have a system to ensure that the spaces are well kept is a neccesity to encourage participation.</span></span></span></p><pid="docs-internal-guid-88ae2527-7fff-86cf-e6bb-dc4825041f1d"><span style="font-familyvariant-ligatures:tahoma,geneva,sansnormal; font-variant-east-serifasian: normal;"><span style="font-sizevariant-position:smallnormal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #3:</span><span style="verticalcaret-aligncolor: baselinergb(0, 0, 0); whitefont-variant-spaceligatures: prenormal; font-variant-east-wrapasian: normal; backgroundfont-variant-colorposition: transparentnormal;"vertical-align: baseline;">Student  leaders There’s isn’t currently a space on campus that’s inviting and nature heavy, that’s conveniently available to work the rooms and keep things organizedall students.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="whitestyle="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-spaceligatures: pre-wrapnormal; font-sizevariant-east-asian: smallnormal; font-familyvariant-position: tahoma, geneva, sansnormal; vertical-serif; background-coloralign: transparentbaseline;">One of the main functions of innovation spaces There are bringing links to mental wellness studies and gathering students together in one place will naturally lead to collaborate and improve on each other's ideasgroup socialization. College specific spaces do not encourage this communication across majors. Therefore, Providing these groups with the end location would have to satisy the criteria of accessibility, low cost, and continued student support.tools </span></p><p><span style="whitecaret-spacecolor: pre-wrap; rgb(0, 0, 0); font-sizevariant-ligatures: smallnormal; font-familyvariant-east-asian: tahoma, geneva, sansnormal; font-variant-serifposition: normal; backgroundvertical-coloralign: transparentbaseline;"><img src="/images/e/ee/WMU_Ergo_Lab.jpeg" _fck_mw_filename="WMU Ergo Labthey need to be productive with each other, which is also key to building bridges across disciplines.jpeg" alt="" /></span></p><div><br /></div><h1> Strategy 3 </h1>Interdisciplinary Collaboration on campus could be highly benefitted by a space that draws students regardless of major or course of study. The escape into nature aspect built in with an open productive space could exponentially augment the students interactino with each other, leading to a more cohesive and well rounded campus collective. Something like a<h2> Interdisciplinary Senior Design<br /span> </h2><pspan><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; fontbackground-familycolor: tahoma, geneva, sans-seriftransparent; font-size: small; line-height: 1; backgroundcaret-color: transparentrgb(0, 0, 0);">Senior engineering Green Lounge, a greenhouse inspired atrium with links to mental wellness that draws students at WMU must complete from a senior design project as a requirement for graduation from their program. Currentlyvariety of majors, students only work with other students within their respective major or department. Project presentations occur twice a year and which also spurs interest in April and Octoberthe Finch Greenhouses. Completion of a senior design project indicates successful acquisition of major specific knowledge as well as real world application skills. However, the structure of post</span></span></span> = <span style="font-size:x-graduate corporate America isn’t organized into teams by college major. It is full of interdisciplinary creative groups expressing entrepreneurial and innovative tendencies towards specific challenges. Multiple discipline collaboration within the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences and beyond during senior projects encourages the continued development of innovation and entrepreneurial skills as students enter the workforce.</span></p><plarge;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; fontfont-family: tahomaarial, genevahelvetica, sans-serif; font"><span style="white-sizespace: small; linepre-height: 1; background-color: transparentwrap;">To accomplish this, the following tactics should be considered:Strategy 4</span></span></pspan>= == <pspan style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: tahomaarial, genevahelvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #1:Reputation</span></span></span style> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: tahomaarial, genevahelvetica, sans-serif; font"><span style="caret-sizecolor: smallrgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; linefont-heightvariant-position: 1normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encourage the acceptance of interdisciplinary projects as viable As students and long lasting topics for senior design presentations rather faculty alike, we can all agree that Western is a place that has served as a cornucopia of academic expansion for students across all disciplines. That being said, there is still a misconception that students are more proud of their extra curricular Saturday nights than the result of a last minute group and idea formationtheir academic prowess.<The nickname of “Wastern” can be incredibly detrimental and damaging to the University's reputation, especially when we look to recruit </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-sizevariant-ligatures:smallnormal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><span style="font-familyvariant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-serifwrap;">academically focused innovators. We need to prevent these potential changemakers and those already at Western from looking at other universities because of our less than professional reputation</span id="docs-internal-guid-06e93d6c-afbc-2575-f879-a0406ebd8741"><span style="verticalcaret-aligncolor: baselinergb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2: Meet with and discuss the process involved in approving senior design projects with faculty in charge. Getting an understanding of the requirements allows parameters to be set so Not only are we turning students away from our University, but we noticed that current student accomplishments are being swept under the proper balance rug as talk of innovation and knowledge recitation can occurboozy tailgates take center stagae.Internally, WMU needs more recognition of its students for the great work they are doing. Some colleges within the University currently spotlight their students on Instagram pages and others have professors nominate their best students for a scholarship or award. But what about those students who are working on their brilliant ideas on their own, and only can be recognized by their peers? </span></span></span></span></pspan><p/span></span style> ="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahomaarial,genevahelvetica,sans-serif;"><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize:x-guid-06e93d6c-afbc-2575-f879-a0406ebd8741large;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #3: Gain student interest. Spread the word about possible senior design collaborations between majors to future seniors to prove the existing interest to faculty and decision makers in charge of approval.Strategy 5</span></span></span><br/span>= </p><p><img src="/images/e/e9/Wmu_senior_design.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Wmu senior design.jpg" alt<span style="font-size:large;" /></p><h1> Strategy 4 </h1><h2> Focus on <i>Intra</i>preneurship </h2><pspan style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="fontcaret-sizecolor:smallrgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-familyvariant-ligatures:tahoma,geneva,sansnormal; font-variant-east-serifasian: normal;"><span id="docs-internalfont-variant-guid-c563e44d-afbf-5636-7b4a-31e6f4d486e8"><span style="colorposition: rgb(0, 0, 0)normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"">Mobile Interfacing</span></span>Overview: </span><br/> == <span style="colorfont-size: rgb(0small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-variant-alignligatures: baselinenormal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Due to the campus culture at WMUEngaging students through their most used devices, their phones, “entrepreneurship” seems is an area many universities are struggling to only be a buzzword. To many studentscatch up with, entrepreneurship only means starting a business from scratch. While this is true, it is not fully representative of the entire scope of entrepreneurship and innovationWMU included. The other portion is often called </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stylevariant-ligatures: italicnormal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">intraStudents need a way to interact with their Universities in a more streamlined and well designed process than currently available</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">preneurship, or innovation something that occurs within existing industries.</span></span>can do anything from navigating them to class to letting them know which classes to avoid registering for at the same time. Solutions could address issues such as: </span></span></p><p><span style="fontwhite-sizespace:smallpre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="fontcaret-familycolor:tahomargb(0,geneva0,sans-serif0);"><Dorm access, Digital IDs, paying for things on campus, like BroncoPay, a DegreeWorks revamp, class search/ recommendation/ review feature.</span id="docs-internal-guid-c563e44d-afbf-5636-7b4a-31e6f4d486e8"></span style></span> = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignsize: baseline; whitex-space: pre-wraplarge; background"><span style="font-colorfamily: transparentarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tactic #1: Related Links</span></span style> ="color Graduated Innovation Fellows: rgb(0 [[Christopher Woodward]], 0 [http://universityinnovation.org/Persefoni%20Lauhon Persefoni_Lauhon], 0); vertical-align[[Zach Crawford|Zach_Crawford]] Fellows: baseline; white-space[[Mackenzie Preston|Mackenzie Preston]], [[Jill Puckett|Jill Puckett]], [[Nathan LaWarre|Nathan LaWarre]], [http: pre-wrap; background-color//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Daniel_Mozel Daniel Mozel], [http: transparent;">While students within the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences are constantly building//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andreas_Hobelsberger Andreas Hobelsberger], creating[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Megan_miller Megan Miller], and designing solutions, few realize how much innovation is actually occurring[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saleh_Mohamed Saleh Mohamed] Candidates: [[Aisha Thaj|Aisha_Thaj]], [[Caylee Prater|Caylee_Prater]], and how the lessons they are learning can be applied to their future career. One option is to bring in industry leaders to speak about how they use design thinking and innovation in their workplace. This could stress the importance of entrepreneurial thinking as a whole, independent of whether the student wanted to open a business or enter the workplace.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c563e44d-afbf-5636-7b4a-31e6f4d486e8"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap[[Cate Troost|Cate Troost]] University: [[Western Michigan University|Western_Michigan_University]] background-color: transparent;">WMU could also offer intrapreneurship workshops to highlight the skills necessary to be successful in particular industries. 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