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<span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Overview</span></span></span></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Elon is a selective, mid-sized private university renowned as a national model for engaged and experiential learning. Students work closely with faculty who are dedicated to excellent teaching and scholarship. The curriculum is grounded in the traditional liberal arts and sciences and complemented by nationally accredited professional and graduate programs.</span></span>
<span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span></span></span></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Elon currently offers a major and a minor in entrepreneurship through the Doherty center, which prepares students to become entrepreneurs in either for-profit businesses or social businesses. While this helps, it is not enough. The business school alone seems to have a monopoly on entrepreneurship and there is not enough interdisciplinary application of design thinking and innovation. Our promotion of I&E seeks to inspire students to create and change the world around them in a variety of majors, requiring widespread faculty support and appeals to creativity that match all kinds of students.</span></span>
<span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Link to Elon Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape</span></span></span></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a">[https://docs.google.com/a/elon.edu/spreadsheets/d/1_zeu0PFGRwNPWin70wBxZbKj1riFirGXY4m7LDJtFBA/edit#gid=0 <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">https://docs.google.com/a/elon.edu/spreadsheets/d/1_zeu0PFGRwNPWin70wBxZbKj1riFirGXY4m7LDJtFBA/edit#gid=0</span>]</span>
<span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Next Steps</span></span></span></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-Interdisciplinary innovation (not just through business school)</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-Creating I&E culture (forums, speakers, discussions, LLC, awards, more student businesses, etc.)</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-Marketing (using Pendulum, career fair, and likely social media to advertise our events)</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-Identifying all possible sources that can stimulate innovation (for funding, advice, etc.)</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b384a2a-3297-9991-41d8-24c08d5c9d5a"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Since Elon is essentially starting from "stage 1," we must do everything we can to get more students to start businesses, non-profits, organizations, etc. and truly ingrain creativity into our culture.</span></span>
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