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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Morgan has stated that it plans to "engage in continuous improvement, renovation, and construction of facilities that will suppport Morgan's faculty, staff, and students in their teaching, learning research, and creative work, that will enhance the delivery of student support services and improve the quality of life for Morgan State University"</span></span>
 
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Morgan has stated that it plans to "engage in continuous improvement, renovation, and construction of facilities that will suppport Morgan's faculty, staff, and students in their teaching, learning research, and creative work, that will enhance the delivery of student support services and improve the quality of life for Morgan State University"</span></span>
  
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== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Tactic #1: Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center:</span> ==
  
 
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.</span>
 
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.</span>
  
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Tactic #2: Create a Student Lounge in the Physics Department</span></span> =
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== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Tactic #2: Create a Student Lounge in the Physics Department</span></span> ==
  
 
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">At Morgan State University, there is no designated space for physics students outside the classrooms. Opening a lounge will strengthen the crippled physics department by creating a sense of community, fostering social support, and increasing learning collaboration.</span></span></span>
 
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">At Morgan State University, there is no designated space for physics students outside the classrooms. Opening a lounge will strengthen the crippled physics department by creating a sense of community, fostering social support, and increasing learning collaboration.</span></span></span>

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     Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society. 

Strategic Pitch

Strategy #1: Create Designated Spaces to Foster Creativity

"Space is the body language of an organization"

Morgan has stated that it plans to "engage in continuous improvement, renovation, and construction of facilities that will suppport Morgan's faculty, staff, and students in their teaching, learning research, and creative work, that will enhance the delivery of student support services and improve the quality of life for Morgan State University"

Tactic #1: Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center:

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

Tactic #2: Create a Student Lounge in the Physics Department

At Morgan State University, there is no designated space for physics students outside the classrooms. Opening a lounge will strengthen the crippled physics department by creating a sense of community, fostering social support, and increasing learning collaboration.

Strategy #2 Expose more non-STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Tactic #1 Intro to Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course

Tactic #2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Complementary Courses 

Strategy #3 Increase Student-Driven Commercialization

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

Tactic #1 Venture Capital Challenge

Tactic #2 Local Tech Collaboration

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

Local partnerships will expose students to industrial and entpreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community.

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