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<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">[[File:CAU logo.jpg|link=Special:FilePath/CAU_logo.jpg]]</span></span> ==Overview == <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp; Clark Atlanta University is a comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational institution of higher education with a predominantly African-American heritage. It offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees as well as certificate programs to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The University was established in 1988 through the consolidation of its two parent institutions, Atlanta University (1865), the nation's first institution to award graduate degrees to African Americans, and Clark College (1869) the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve a primarily African-American student population. &nbsp;</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Although Clark Atlanta University is in the early stages of developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem we do offer a few entrepreneurial opportunities. The School of Business at Clark Atlanta University makes great efforts to encourage entrepreneurship efforts of the students. Established within the Clark Atlanta University curriculum, freshman students as well as graduate students are exposed to entrepreneurship through the course which we look to establish across disciplines. Students also participate in various pitch competitions in which they prove their capabilities of establishing a working business model necessary for successful startup. The University also has a Shark tank competition this year which should inspire students and raise the profile of the innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives being enacted by both the UIF members and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.The development of programs such as LEADWeek, which has a UIF candidate as its Co-chair, has provided students with the opportunity to receive input on the development of self. Moving forward, the primary goal of the team is to integrate the departmental silos on campus in order to usher in a new ecosystem which embraces collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. We are very optimistic that we will be successful at raising awareness and participation throughout the course of this school year.</span></span>
== Overview ==
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clark Atlanta University is a comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational institution of higher education with a predominantly African-American heritage. It offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees as well as certificate programs to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The University was established in 1988 through the consolidation of its two parent institutions, Atlanta University (1865), the nation's first institution to award graduate degrees to African Americans, and Clark College (1869) the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve a primarily African-American student population. &nbsp;</span></span>
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== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> 2.1 Courses
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<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">There are a number of courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students that promote entrepreneurship and innovation on campus.</span></span> CGER 102 - Intro to Engineering Design CFAS 201 - Creative Fashion Presentation
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">CBUS 380 - Entrepreneurial Thinking</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">CBUS 382 - Marketing the Entrepreneurial Venture</span></span>
 
CBUS 385 - Principles of Marketing
 
CBUS 480 - Entrepreneurship & Enterprise
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">CBUS 481 - Entrepreneurial Practicum</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">CBUS 484 Small Business Management</span></span>
 
CCIS 475 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence
 
CCIS 413 - Intro to Robotics
 
CGER 481 - Environmental Engineering
<pre> 2.2 Events</pre>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">'''Lead Week '''- I is an annual event sponsored by the School of Business which raises awareness in the areas of entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, social media, mass media, innovation and alumni affairs.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">'''Capstone Projects'''- Are an integral part of the schools commitment to supporting project based learning. There are a number of capstone projects predominantly in the Arts & Sciences department.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">'''Speaker Series-&nbsp; ''' a few workshops and speakers that promote entrepreneurship. There is a freshman success speaker series along with a case competition workshop that took place this year. In my opinion this is an area that the university can improve on. It would take very little effort to increase the number of events and workshops on campus.</span></span>
'''Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition-''' promoted by the Center for Innovation & entrepreneurial Development at CAU, it is designed to provide students with early-stage ideas to compete for various including cash prizes. '''Panther Biz Expo-''' sponsored by PNC Bank and powered by CIED and Blackstone to showcase student vendor pop-up shops. Students win cash prizes based on how well they present their businesses. '''Advanced Coding Workshop-''' Workshop to advance students' coding techniques and strategies from esteemed professionals.  '''Advanced 3D Printing Workshop-''' Workshop that teaches students advanced printing techniques that could benefit their business ventures or just simply improve their printing skills. == Regional and Local Development Efforts== <span style="font-size:medium">CAU is currently trying to strengthen its connection with the community in regard to local and regional economic development. The university is committed to working with its stakeholders to build a better community and a better academic institution.<br/span> ==
<span style="font-size:large">Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span>
<span style="font-size:medium">Is a new organization headed by entreprenuer David Duncan. The goal of the organization is to assist the student body in promoting innovation and entreprenuership on campus by having a liason between students and staff. This a new venture that looks very promising, so stay tuned!</span>
== Active Support in the University Technology Transfer Function == '''The CAU Office of Technology Transfer (T2)-''' is responsible for managing the protection and licensing of CAU discoveries with potential commercial value. By using intellectual property law to protect discoveries with potential commercial value, our office can hopefully encourage interested companies to invest the resources necessary to turn an early stage academic discovery into a commercial product.
== =='''IP Consulting-&nbsp; '''Cynthia Parks and Collen Beard are the IP staff on hand to assist students through the process of protecting and developing their ideas and inventions.
<span style="font'''Faculty Research Council-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial'''“The Faculty Research Council advises the Vice President Research on matters involving research infrastructure,helveticamaintenance of equipment,sansstart-serif">2up support for faculty and in general support of standing up a more robust research enterprise at Clark Atlanta University”. Develop Community partnerships</span></span>
<span style="font'''Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development-size:larger"><span style="font''' established to develop a campus-family: arialwide entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. The center provides students,helveticafaculty,sans-serif">2.1 Establish partnerships staff and alumni with businesses opportunities to support build their innovation and creativity on campusentrepreneurial skills through opportunities such as business and idea consulting, workshops, mentoring and business modeling.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2.2. Create a quarterly “Challenge Drop” where local business would drop off a problem/concern that they are currently facing Encouraging Faculty Innovation and have the students submit creative, innovative, solutions that could possibly lead to entrepreneurial opportunities for the students.</span></span>Entrepreneurship==
<span style="font'''HBCU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Collaborative-size:larger"><span style="font'''The HBCU Collaborative is a cohort of 15 public and private HBCUs that are committed to participating in a multi-family: arialyear collaboration that will foster innovation,helveticacommercialization and entrepreneurship on their respective campuses to improve student success by implementing new institutional courses,sanstransforming faculty pedagogy and creating partnerships with government and private industries. This collaborative will build off the momentum that was established by the 2013 HBCU Innovation Summit held at Stanford University that was co-organized by UNCF, the NSF-serif">2.3. Develop an Advisory Board funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) and have Corporations strategically advise the centerStanford Center for Professional Development.</span></span>
<span style="font=Facilitating University-size:larger"><span styleIndustry Collaboration =="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2.4 Invite companies and entrepreneurs to lecture and conduct presentations related to Creativity, and I&E ultimately establishing a lecture series.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style= =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'''Lead Week '''-is an annual event sponsored by the School of Business which raises awareness in the areas of entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, social media, mass media, innovation and alumni affairs. The event bridges the gap between the industry and the University.</span></span>
<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium"><span style="font'''Corporate Visits'''-size: larger">3There are approximately 25 visits to the School of Business annually to recruit top talent. In addition, over 500 companies participate in the AUC career fairs to recruit students as well. Establish Innovation fellows advisory committee for However, the school is working on developing relationships with organizations that are interested in research, innovation and entrepreneurship to enhance the scholastic CAU</span>experience.</span>
<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium"><span style="fontThe '''AUC Academic and Career Development Organization'''-size: larger">3.1 Select Has a combination wide variety of Facultyresources for students, Staff, Students and Administrators whose responsibility is to bridge the gap between the transition of old fellows and new incoming fellow and continue/support the momentum of what the previous UIF students have initiatedlisted below.</span></span>
<span style="font*On-familyCampus Recruiting – Students:arial,helvetica,sans([http://www.aucconsortium.org/campus-serif"><span style="fontrecruiting/ DDEP Campus Recruiting])*AUCC DDEP Student Registration: ([http://www.aucconsortium.org/ddep-sizeform AUCC DDEP Student Registration Form])*Scholarship Opportunities: &nbsp;([http: larger">3//www.2 Advisory Committee will be responsible for preserving the long term strategic plan developed by the UIF and landscapeaucconsortium.org/scholarship-opportunities/ AUCC DDEP Scholarship Opportunities]) 3*Engineering Institutions: ([http://www.aucconsortium.org/ddep-history-3 Support creative problem solving/provide practical AUCC Dual Degree Engineering Program – AUCC DDEP)]*Experience – eRecruiting ([http://www.aucenter.experience from corporation Sponsorships .com/ AUC Consortium Experience Site]) Students: For viewing events, information sessions, and applying for intellectual propertystudent internship and research opportunities. <*Employers/Recruiters: For posting career, summer internships research opportunities and to register events such as career or graduate fair visit:&nbsp;[http://span><www.aucenter.experience.com/span>www.aucenter.experience.com]
<span style="font'''The AUCC Career Fair-family:arial''' Unique in person moment presents an incredible opportunity for emerging professionals who can innovate,helveticacreatively and efficiently manage projects,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: larger">3.4&nbsp; The advisory committee should be voted on and approved by students, on contribute to an annual basisorganization's strategic goals.</span></span>
<span stylebr />{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key="font1nQ-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span styleSgj3ogxjk7_vzRuixdtyB0r19E8cic4iK8bHpO1A|width=1300|height="font-size: larger">3.5&nbsp; The committee should consist of faculty, entreprenuers, educators and current or past UIF members.</span></span>700}}
== <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Related Links:</span></span> ==
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4. I&E Events on Campus</span></span>'''Clark Atlanta University'''
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4.1 Lean Startup April-May (per semester)</span></span>[[Clark Atlanta University Student Strategies|Clark Atlanta University Student Strategies]]
<span style="font-size[https:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4//docs.google.2&nbsp; Launch a hackcom/spreadsheets/d/1nQ-a-thon for students and invite local Universities (annually)<Sgj3ogxjk7_vzRuixdtyB0r19E8cic4iK8bHpO1A/span></span>edit#gid=1096064236 Landscape Canvas]
<span style="font-size:larger"br /><span style="font-familyUniversity Innovation Fellows: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4.3&nbsp; Shark Tank event with alumni judges (annually)</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4.4&nbsp; MBA disciplined workshops for non-business students (twice a semester)</span></span>Spring 2017
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4.5&nbsp; Tedx event at CAU (annual event)</span></span>[[Allen_lee|Allen Lee]]
[[Madisyn_Dudley|Madisyn Dudley]]
Spring 2015
== <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Related Links:<[[/span></span><br/> ==Damon Willis|Damon Willis]]
[http:[//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Clark_Atlanta_University_Student_Strategies <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Clark Atlanta University Student Strategies</span></span>Tiffany Mitchell|Tiffany Mitchell]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki//Tiffany_Mitchell Tiffany Mitchell[Ariel rogers|Ariel Rogers]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Damon_Willis Damon Willis[Aaron Chambers|Aaron Chambers]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ariel_rogers Ariel Rogers]Spring 2014
[http://universityinnovation[Lionel Cross Jr.org/wiki/Aaron_Chambers Aaron Chambers|Lionel Cross Jr.]]
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