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The college focuses on achievement, experiential learning and leadership, and critical thinking. Consistently ranked among America’s best colleges, William Jewell College is cited for small class sizes, low student debt, high graduation rates, commitment to service, and overall value.
= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =
Presently, Jewell students from physics and business are the most engaged in entrepreneurship. This is because of likely due to the focus on engineering content and entrepreneurial the structure of their courses. However, respectivelystudents in all majors often show their ability to innovate and design. A goal Jewell's student body constantly engages in extracurricular group activity and other projects outside of the 2016-2017 Leadership Circle is class that are dedicated to engage interdisciplinary students and help market our existing resources finding innovative solutions to students across problems they find on campus. There are also several student organizations dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation, detailed below. Additionally, students leverage resources in the Kansas City entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as Lean Startup Machine workshops. There are also many makerspaces that encourage collaboration among students and students have many resources through on-campus faculty. Students also have the Adobe Suite at their disposal on specific computers in the Pryor Learning Commons along with a 3D printer, production studio, and audio recording studio. There are a great number resources that students could be using in their entrepreneurial endeavors.Jewell's faculty also does a tremendous job of kindling and promoting entrepreneurial spirit in their interaction with the student body.
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =
William Jewell College offers an extensive list of events for students to go to which include an extensive lecture series, Big Omaha, Big Kansas City, the Kansas City Maker Faire, KC Tech Week, and One Million Cups. Organizations around campus also contribute to events that help inspire innovation and entrepreneurship such as visiting lecture series sponsored by the chemistry and biology departments, a professor sponsored weekly networking meeting called BizTime Coffee, Lean Startup Machine in Kansas City that is sponsored by the Business Department, and Think Big Pitch Camp that is also sponsored by the Business Department.
The fall 2014 UIF cohort started an annual event called #OnedayKC. Through partnerships with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Think Big Partners, the Kaufmann Foundation, and other local businesses and organizations #OnedayKC became the collegiate entrepreneurial event of the year for the Kansas City area by bringing together students from multiple institutions for a day of innovation and entrepreneurship. The 2015 cohort is looking forward to did a great job of expanding and improving upon the already excellent model for this amazing event. Current and future cohorts aim to do the same.
William Jewell College also puts on a Duke Colloquium Day every April for students to both showcase their unique project and get a look at what their peers have been working on. Classes are canceled for the day to show the students they have the colleges full backing and admiration for their work. In addition, alumni are invited as well as local professional leaders.
== Spaces<br/> ==
On Jewell’s campus, there are two shops in the Physics Department that are the machine shop and the electronics shop. These spaces, however, are mostly used by students in the Physics Department. These shops require special training to use which makes them less accessible to the larger student body. A private shop is located about thirty-five minutes away called the Design Shop and it is available for student use. It is a business professor initiative at bringing design and creativity to campus and to the community.
William Jewell is rapidly growing its Creativity and Innovation program and other campus-wide efforts, to the degree that the word "entrepreneurship," "innovation," and "creativity" find themselves at the center of nearly every new project and initative. The University Innovation fellows welcome this environment, but currently find ourselves grounding campus projects and initiatives into doable, process based creativity. While we encourage "thinking big," we consider it equally important to consider the multi-stepped, process-based origin of true creative work. Projects that include faculty recognition, centralized data regarding campus activities, and better communications mechanisms for campus leaders all include big goals--yet we continue to seek first iterations of these projects to use as prototypes to better evaluate the underlying need of the initiatives at hand. From there, we intend to garner the immediate success of various initiatives into the energy and support needed to reach their fullest conceptions.
In line with this goal, Jewell has collected data from faculty and student interviews about innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement over the last year, and this content area will eventually summarize those data along with that collected by the Leadership Circle. Some of the ways Jewell has utilized the collected data is the creation of the college's first ever engineering program, which it is in the midst of now. In the fall of 2016 William Jewell College will be welcoming welcomed its first ever class of civil engineers. The program will have has an environmental emphasis and focus on four technical areas: environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic and structural. The addition of this department will has certainly added and continues to add to the innovation and entrepreneruship on Jewell's campus.
= Landscape Canvas =
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fueIItc8e6c3BE1Kz2jnWG21U5L8Vc_670y6ktAXZ8o/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017 Landscape Canvas]
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'''Current Fellows'''
[[Alex HoldenJack Still|Jack Still]] [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]]
[[Gretchen MayesJulia Almeida|Gretchen MayesJulia Almeida]]
[[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]http://universityinnovation.org/Sofia%20Arthurs-Schoppe Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]
[[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]]
[[Bradley Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]] [[Conner Foote|Conner Foote]] [[William Hyde|William Hyde]] [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]] [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]] [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]] [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Dice Jacob Dice] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sam_Fulte Sam Fulte] 2018-2019 Leadership Cycle: [[Jack Still|Jack Still]] , [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]] , [[Julia Almeida|Bradley Julia Almeida]] . 2017-2018 Leadership Circle: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sam_Fulte Sam Fulte], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Dice Jacob Dice]]
2016-2017 Leadership Circle: [[Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]], [[Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe|Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]], [[Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]], [[http://universityinnovation.org/Conner Foote|%20Foote Conner Foote]], [[William Hyde|William Hyde]], [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]], [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]], [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]], [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]]
2015-2016 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]], [[Ben_ShinogleBen Shinogle|Ben Shinogle]], [[Alex Holden|Alex Holden]], [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]], [[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]
2014-2015 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[James Milam|James Milam]], [[Kate McFerren|Kate McFerren]], [[Amelia Hanzlick|Amelia Hanzlick]], [[Conner Hazelrigg|Conner Hazelrigg]]
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