Priorities:Texas A&M University Student Priorities: Part III

Overview

While Texas A&M University boasts a vast sum of resources in order to facilitate entrepreneurship, its de facto accessibility is lackluster due to the sparse nature of all of the manifestations of the resources. While it may initially seem positive that we have so many different facilities and programs, it leads to confusion, especially for undergraduate students, and creates an inhibitory effect on students who wish to venture into I&E. This leads to the stonewalling of many students from taking initiative for an idea they may have, and this produces, in sum, an unrecoverable loss in ideas, the retardation of innovation evangelism, and limits entrepreneurship in general for the student body. It is imperative that the university organizes the programs and resources in a manner that is intuitive, clear, and easily accessible. 

This page lists directed strategies to this issue and enumerates possible implementations of solutions for each strategy.

Strategies

PROJECT H.U.B.

Current structure is too confusing; organize an umbrella head for all I&E initiatives and programs, with main manifestation being a website.

1. Website that is clear, concise, and minimalistic. 
   

• A student should be able to enter this website and not be overwhelmed by the structure.
  • • Material Design Lite or Bootstrap is a feasible standard
    • Short and easy URL (tamuie.com, ie.tamu.edu, etc)
  • The website should be a portal that any student can use to find out more about I&E at TAMU.
    • Can be categorized by specific perks and benefits of each program to match an individual student's needs
      
  • Plan
    1. Meet with Rodney Boehm, director of EIC, to discuss how to implement the umbrella structure
    2. Meet with directors of different I&E programs and discuss pipelining information to H.U.B.
    3. Sample student opinions to assess what is specifically unfavorable with current website
    4. Outline website structure, full stack diagram and flow chart.
    5. Assemble Team, Develop Website
    6. Test Pipeline, posting, accessibility, sample experience of website from student user data
    7. Launch
    8. Write documentation for future maintenance
  2. Increase collaboration amongst differnt I&E programs to decrease sparsity Meet with directors of different I&E programs and learn the programs
  1. Construct a map of possible collaboration initiatives between programs
  2. Contact the individual directors with collaboration proposal
  3. Take proposal idea and survey opinions of users who participated in either/both programs
  4. Solidify proposal, contact intermediary (umbrella head) to mediate the initiative
  5. Launch the initiative
  6. Reiterate
  Outreach and Exposure Proactive Outreach: Go to the students, instead of waiting for the students to come to us.
  • Emails have the best breadth but are generally ignored by students or misplaced as spam. Not much we can do to help, since students actually do receive a lot of spam. This is our base case.
  • ​Posters are our initial opportunities to draw the attention of unaware students and pique their interests. Make them eye-catching, but clear and concise.
  • Have a "free-be" event: this is one of the many ways that tech companies draw talent from a pool of initially unaware students. Usually involves a table with free food. 
  • Send speakers to courses:
    • ​Have an "ambassador" for each department/classification to speak briefly at the beginning of class about I&E.
  • ​Survey students before and after outreach efforts are in place in order to gauge the effects of our implementations. 
  Goal B: 
  == Related Pages Texas A&M University  Texas A&M University Student Priorities: Part I /Jusung_Lee