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= Overview<br/> =
[[File:William Jewell College Logo 1.jpg|thumb|William Jewell College Logo 1.jpg]] William Jewell College is a small liberal arts institution established in 1849. The college has called Liberty, Missouri its home for over 165 years. Today the campus is about 200 acres in size, and sits on a hill overlooking the Kansas City skyline. The average enrollment is around 1,100 students, making the student to faculty ratio eleven to one. The college places a strict emphasis on service, leadership, and spiritual growth with a motto, “Deo Fisus Labora,” meaning, “Trust in God, Work.”
William Jewell advertises their four-year degree as being “a journey rich with opportunities.” With over 40 majors to choose from, the college provides students with opportunities to collaborate in a state of the art technology based learning commons, utilize a Journey Grant ($2,000.00) to pursue a passion of their own design, be a Division II athlete, research with a professor in their major field of study, launch an entrepreneurial venture through the college's Idea Exchange, and much more. The school's motto is "Live what you learn."
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 =
'''Current Fellows'''
[[Jack Still|Jack Still]]
[[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]]
[[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/Sofia%20Arthurs-Schoppe Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]
'''Graduate Fellows'''
[[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]]
[[Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]]
[[Conner Foote|Conner Foote]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sam_Fulte Sam Fulte]
2017-2018 Leadership Circle: Savannah Hawley, [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]], [http://universityinnovation.org/Conner%20Foote Conner Foote], [[William Hyde|William Hyde]], [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]], [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]], [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]], [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]]
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