Priorities:University of North Alabama Strategic Priorities

Strategic Goals: 

The UNA Fellows Vision: To promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship by integrating, incorporating, and accelerating multidisciplinary programs into our university’s culture. 

The Triple E Mission: Excite and Engage students to Embrace Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Immediate Initiatives: 

Initative #1: Change the Language

While surveying, students informed us that they didn’t believe their majors needed entrepreneurship or innovation, because it wasn’t a business department and they didn’t want to own a business. First, we have to change the verbiage and language to get students to understand that this topic is not only relevant, but absolutely VITAL for their majors, departments, and careers, community and the university.

Terms we researched and will be implementing in our promotion: 

·      Problem Solving

·      Renovation

·      Development

·      Transformation

·      Ambitious

·      Diversification

·      Enlightening

·      Coaching

Long-Term Initiatives:

Intiative #4: Google Talks and Ted Talks

In order to gain more value in the minds of our students, we need exciting and knowledgable events. By hosting a TedTalks, the students would become engaged, the faculty and staff would understand the vitality of implementing innovation and technology in all departments, and UNA would also gain from a rise in education standards and acknowledgement.  

Initiative #5: Workspaces

We struggled mapping out the workspaces available to students 24/7 with the resources to be creative, test ideas, and prototype. Simply, this is unrealistic and unacceptable, especially if we are trying to grow to become more tech savvy. We must provide more workspaces for students to have the power to continually create, research, and design.