2023 Cohort
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→Overview: Added 2023 strategic foresight
<span style="font-size:larger;"> The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,000 students, making it the second-largest university in Ohio. It is part of the University System of Ohio. The university has four major campuses with Cincinnati's main campus and medical campus in Clifton Heights and branch campuses in Blue Ash and Clermont.
=2023 Cohort=
==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #1 </span>==
===College Mixer Day===
While there are many students focused on working in a specific field, some students hope to work in an industry that is inherently multidiscipline. This project aims to offer opportunities at the specific boundary between two fields. One College invites another to their space for a lunch event with presentations, networking, and a chance to meet with industry professionals. These events are themed to be inherently multi-disciplinary: think "The Business of Music" or "The Art of Code."
Key Tactics:
*Connect students of different majors with each other to foster a more layered academic identity
*Break the physical boundary of colleges by inviting students into a college they may never visit
*Give opportunities to students interested in work at the intersection of two fields
*Offer a chance for students to explore multidisciplinary uses for their major
==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #2</span>==
===Blind Dating a Major===
This event allows students to explore majors, minors, and certificates offered at UC. This event will be held every semester and is open to all students interested in exploring major paths. It will be held in the TUC Great Hall. Students will come in and receive a packet where they have a grading scale that they will use to rate the different majors. Representatives from the respected college/major will tell them about the program without "telling them" what the program is - no dead giveaways either! After dating around for a while, students can drop off their grading scale and about a week later they will get their "matches" back. This will help them accurately determine a program that fits their interests and goals.
Key Tactics:
*Putting the students needs and wants out of college first to ensure they are picking a major route that is suitable to them
*Open the event up to minors and certificates to allow students who know what they want to do broaden their horizon
*Keep all representatives 'blind' so there is no stereotypes or ego in play when it comes to choosing a major
*Reaching out to the students shortly after the event to put them in contact with the correct people/colleges
==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #3</span>==
===The coLab===
The coLab is a major neutral space on campus used to host multidisciplinary events. The space may be used by students, students ambassadors for the space, as well as the staff who sponsor/operate the coLab. While Digital Futures offers students the opportunity to work in specific labs, the coLab is a general purpose space. It is a sample of 1819 and digital futures.
Key Tactics:
*An on-campus space devoted specifically to hosting multi-disciplinary work
*Open for any students to come and work on MD projects together
*Host frequent, casual events to generate student participation
*Contains windows, whiteboard walls, open space, smaller conference room, music, coffee, couches, tables+chairs, beanbags
=2022 Cohort=
==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #1 </span>==
===UCreate===
*Increases the community involvement for the Cincinnati area<br />
==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #2</span>==
===The Future of Capstone===
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==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #3</span>==
===Digital Futures and the Future of Work===
The purpose Future of work research would allow students explore what the Future future of Capstone is for their industry will look like within a certain time frame, giving students to expand on the trends and observations they have taken away from understanding of how their industry experience acquired during their professional coop programor career path will change as they are almost ready to enter the workforce. Students from would be working with the College of DesignDigital Futures building, Architecturea UC innovation lab that is focused on creating, Artresearching, and Planningdesigning the future of our world. With labs that focused on the future of health, education, crypto economics, College the future of Engineering transportation, and Applied Sciencemore, students will conduct intensive research with said labs on their own industry and Lindner College of Business can participate in this capstone coursehopefully be able to influence education and the specific industry with their findings. From their observations they noticed on coop, they will continue researching future trends Key Tactics: *Providing students with in -depth research opportunities that are relevant to their industry own interests.*Creating partnerships between students and decide on the topics they would like Digital Futures / CID*Giving typically non co-op students the chance to apply explore and prepare their own path before leaving the cushion of the knowledge through university*Allowing students to find a more entrepreneurial future forward perspective and aiding them to bring into the start their own businesses or organizations ==<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Focus #4</span>=====Student-led Insight on Future of Work===The idea of student-led insights comes from reflections that students complete after returning from co-op. The University of Cincinnati communityhas a top co-op program with students that travel across the nation and the globe. Students that have convening topics will be placed are emersed in a group different types of work and regions which allow them to work on developing see trends as they are happening. Currently, students are not afforded the project for the rest opportunity of bringing this knowledge to campus and are integrated back into academic semester. Being able to tap into the semester and will have students insights to be able to generate reports that we could bring to university partners to be informed could be a showcase of their ownpowerful relationship to foster.
Key Tactics:
*Applying the insights on the future in the student's industry into a projectStudent co-op reflection alternative of an interview*Multidisciplinary collaboration through Value proposition to students is to provide them a team projectplatform for better reflection to inform their passions*Bridging Synthesizing all the gap between coop industry experience and education*Researching and synthesizing insights information provided by students to create projection on the future of jobswork*Students and Being able to provide this information to university partners*Informing faculty discover on changes in the areas for opportunity workforce and creating changes to curriculum to adjust to prepare students for post graduationindustry changes
=2021 Cohort=