Priorities:University of Tulsa Student Priorities

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</parsererror> Fall 2018

Strategic Priority One: Growing institutional I&E from the top-down

Institutional I&E does not happen by educating just the student body. To achieve a culture of I&E, a campus must be submerged in design thinking. This means it is just as important to educate administration, faculty, and staff about the benefits and practices of a creative mindset. In order to bridge the gap between administration, faculty, staff and students, we desire to approach the growth of the I&E mindset in the following manner:

Admin, Faculty, and Staff Design Thinking Workshops

​Short-term Goal: Begin collaborating and brainstorming with influential stakeholders about better ways to engage administration, faculty, and staff.

Mid-term Goal: Develop a course that is highly condensed and extremely impactful to fit into the busy lives of the target audience.

Overall Goal:

The desire is that one day the University of Tulsa will brim with students pursuing new solutions to existing problems in their academic, social, and professional lives because of the impact

Strategic Priority Two: Growing institutional I&E from the bottom-up

The goal of this priority is to grow I&E among the students. We specifically want to target students from academic backgrounds that are not exposed to I&E very much. How can we incorporate this for students do not necessarily have the time to take whole courses that are unrelated to their major? Our project to approach this is pop-up classes. These classes will allow students to learn about something they find interesting in an interactive and creative way. Furthermore, these classes will incorporate design thinking through prototype projects linked to the subject being taught. 

Short-term goal: Trial run in one class period by collaborating with a professor and finding a common interest. Get feedback and find what topics students would take a pop-class on.

Mid-term goal: Start to incorporate pop-up classes into curriculum starting with one class.

Long-term goal: Several pop-up classes are offered and students can receive 1 credit for each class they take. Furthermore, these classes would be available for various different majors so that the design mentality is spread throughout campus and not too specific disciplines.  

 Strategic Priority Three: Spreading awareness of I&E resources

Without the awareness of resources, how do we expect students to be able to start or even finish projects? In order to allow students to tap into their full innovative and entrepreneurial potential, they must be aware of resources that could help them start and further their projects. In order to increase the awareness on campus, we plan on the following:

Short-term Goal: Begin drafting a map or brochure with all the I&E resources available and their respective locations.

Mid-term Goal: Start passing these out to the freshman during orientation to expose them to innovation and all the resources.

 Overall Goal:

The goal is that the impact of spreading awareness of innovation resources will, in turn, allow students to accomplish their goals and see their projects through to the end, along with increasing the amount of students creating/being involved in projects.

Strategic Priority Four: Increasing I&E through extracurricular activities

Extracurriculars are a fantastic way to make innovation and entrepreneurship interdisciplinary. Student organizations contribute to submerging a campus in design thinking. Students who have ever wanted to pursue an idea without knowing how or who to work with can look at I&E clubs for the answers to their questions.