2022 Cohort, 2025-cohort-mentor
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<big>The primary goal of this University Innovation Fellows’ project is to assess MTU’s student, faculty, and administrative bodies to generate recommended measures toward developing a post-quarantine protocol that aims to ensure an effective transition towards an improved post-quarantine learning experience.</big>
=Cohort 2022=
For our cohort we've decided to scale tings back in terms of what has been done in the past, we would like to centralize ourselves off of one identified problem and work together to determine solutions to solve it. This way we can each prop up each others weaknesses and use each others strengths to deliver a polished and useful deliverable. As with the previous cohort we've identifed an issue that students are often unaware of the resources they have available to them, and how to use those resources in an effective manner to bolster the value they get out of their time with the university.
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==Strategy Thirteen: Student Experience Compounding Journal==
Although online resources are plentiful and easy to access we've found from some of our interviews that students sometimes prefer a physical journal, something that they can hold and add to. We think that there is an opportunity to use these additions to create a journal that students can get at the end of the year, read, and then add to if they would like at the end of the year they can turn in this journal and then we can add some of the additions to the next year's "edition" for then more students to add to until we end up with a product with a lot of wisdom and insight for new students.
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==Strategy Fourteen: Centralized Resource Finder==
Our university environment contains a large quantity of resources available to students most of which can be easily researched online. We have found through various problem interviews that students are confused by how spread out it seems all of these resources are. This is mostly a result of departmentalized resources often not playing well with each other, thus creating a number of similar locations for different resources. This seems like it is a lot of duplicated effort that can be confusing for the end user, and also confusing for people trying to add to these sites or areas on campus.
We would like to work with the university to foster a centralized solution so as to improve scalability and modularity of proposing new groups/organizations as well as an easy way for groups to announce new activities and changes.
=Cohort 2023=
For our cohort we focused on developing a peer mentoring program for new entering students might help them adjust to a new university or environment. By implementing peer mentoring initiatives that match current students (including transfers and international students) with experienced peers. Mentors may provide direction, answer queries, and give students an atmosphere of togetherness. This helps them in many regards like specialized help and advice that is suited to their unique requirements and problems, developing self-assurance in their abilities to make it through the educational system, this can reduce the feeling of isolation and anxiety faced by many new incoming students.
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=Strategy Fifteen: Peer Mentorship Program (2023-24)=
Transitioning into a new college or university, particularly in a foreign nation, may be a difficult and bewildering process. A well-designed peer mentoring program may give the support, direction, and feeling of inclusion that these students require to succeed in their new surroundings. The major goal of this peer mentoring program is to help incoming transfer and foreign students make a smooth and happy transition. We hope to address their specific needs and obstacles by collaborating them with experienced Tech students, thereby boosting personal growth, and social development.
Analysis of the information collected from discussions with stakeholders on campus, including faculty, staff, administration made it clear that first year students, specially transfer students and international students feel disoriented on campus during the orientation and transition period. There is a barrier in terms of proper and complete communication, handholding and guidance support to students. Even though there are abundant resources on campus and ample opportunities to explore campus life, incoming students are overwhelmed with the climatic and cultural change, and the onset of semester work leaves them with little ability to get comfortable with college life. We recognized an opportunity to create an innovative solution that builds on existing resources, is attentive to student needs and at the same time, is based on the value space created by faculty and staff.
We will accompany them on their journey and make them feel at ease in our campus community.
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=<span style="font-size:x-large;">Completed Strategies</span>=
[[Fellow:Katherine_Dvorak|Ket Dvorak]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>
[[Fellow:Peter_LaMantia|Peter LaMantia]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Samuel Raber|Samuel Raber]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lindsay_Sandell Lindsay Sandell] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Kyler Bomhof|Kyler Bomhof]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Suhayb Zeqlam|Suhayb Zeqlam]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>
[[Samuel RaberFellow:Meg Rotole|Samuel RaberMeg Rotole]] - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>
[http[Fellow://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lindsay_Sandell Lindsay SandellBayle LaDawn Golden|Bayle Golden]]- - <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>
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