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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Susquehanna University is a private liberal arts college located in the town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna University is dedicated to helping students become proactive leaders through academics, service, and personal assets, which is represented through the University motto “Achieve, Lead, Serve”. Susquehanna allows students to engage and facilitate conversation through our clubs and organizations as well as our Global Opportunities (GO) program, which connects students with the world by establishing a GO academic requirement. While there are opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor, the university has room for improvement.&nbsp;</span></span>
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Susquehanna University is a private liberal arts college located in the town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna University is dedicated to helping students become proactive leaders through academics, service, and personal assets, which is represented through the University motto “Achieve, Lead, Serve”. Susquehanna allows students to engage and facilitate conversation through our clubs and organizations as well as our Global Opportunities (GO) program, which connects students with the world by establishing a GO academic requirement. While there are opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor, the university has room for improvement.&nbsp;
  
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">One of the biggest challenges that Susquehanna faces is the lack of collaboration between the Sigmund Weis Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences. Students focus on individual departmental disciplines and associate the words "entrepreneurship" and "innovation" strictly with business. The main objective of our University Innovation Fellows Leadership Circle is to implement more innovation and entrepreneurship programs on campus and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.</span></span>
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One of the biggest challenges that Susquehanna faces is the lack of collaboration between the Sigmund Weis Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences. Students focus on individual departmental disciplines and associate the words "entrepreneurship" and "innovation" strictly with business. The main objective of our University Innovation Fellows Leadership Circle is to implement more innovation and entrepreneurship programs on campus and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
  
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Spring 2015 Pitch '''- &nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI]</span></span>
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'''Spring 2015 Pitch '''- &nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI]
  
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Fall 2016 Pitch''' - &nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA]</span></span>
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'''Fall 2016 Pitch''' - &nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA]
  
= <span style="font-size:medium;"><big><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Student Priorities</span></big></span> =
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'''Fall 2019 Pitch''' - &nbsp;[https://youtu.be/Fb30yXi1k9s https://youtu.be/Fb30yXi1k9s]
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== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">STRATEGY ONE: DRIVE INNOVATIVE MOMENTUM&nbsp;</span></span> ==
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== '''STRATEGY ONE: INTRO TO INNOVATION COURSE''' ==
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Develop and introduce an introduction to innovation course catering to all majors and possibly required for incoming first-years to take. We are collaborating on this project together however Liz Ludwig has currently taken charge.
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*Develop class syllabus and research textbooks
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*Ideal Start-up date - Fall 2020.
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*Integrate various concepts of core curriculum and SWSB learning goals to effectively instruct students in a liberal arts capacity. &nbsp;
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**Focus on Innovation and or Entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary focus.
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**Grow exposure of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor on campus.
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**Encourage awareness from all majors and class years to the importance of innovation in all fields.
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**Bridge the gap between students of differing majors and encourage group project work with unfamiliar faces.
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**Solve problems on campus through student-eyes.
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*Develop&nbsp;a a plan to sustain the course as a foundation of first-year learning for all the years to come, including plans on possible professors who may be teaching the course along with UIF TAs
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*Identify resources and funding available to students, faculty, and staff for class projects and class trips/assessments.
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== '''STRATEGY TWO: REIMAGINE INNOVATION CLUB''' ==
  
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Raise awareness about innovation and entrepreneurship, and ideas on campus</span></span>
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Eliminate innovation and entrepreneurship disciplinary stigma to encourage innovation outside of the classroom - participation in the now 'dead' DICE innovation club. We are collaborating on this project together, however Andrea Repetz has currently taken charge.
  
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Inspire and promote interdisciplinary collaboration through innovative events</span></span>
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*Understand current underrepresentation of academic disciplines on campus and incorporate new innovative solutions for departmental engagement including participation in the club - "DICE" - as a part of a class, or outside of academic purposes.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">TEDx Susquehanna: Spring 2018</span></span>
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*Create events catered to various disciplines, such as the arts, to encourage creativity and original thinking on campus.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Pitch Contest: Spring 2018</span></span>
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**Hold campus events to showcase student creations and ideas - and also recruit for the club.
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Initiate PR campaign in order to involve students in University Innovation Fellows (UIF), innovation on campus and event planning for TEDx and Pitch Contest&nbsp;</span></span>
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*Utilize on-campus creative spaces to raise awareness of such design spaces to gain further interest in innovation club.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Focus on entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary subject</span></span>
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**Encourage use of new&nbsp;makerspace&nbsp;to facilitate conversation and hold events in the new establishment.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Grow exposure of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor across campus</span></span>
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**Speak to the first-year community about creative spaces and encourage discussion - possibly integrate first year innovation course (Strategy 1)
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Develop</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">continuity</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">plan to have funding established in advance for every semester of UIF to eliminate gaps in fellow classes and create stability and sustainability&nbsp;</span></span>
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*Bring organizations to campus to understand current problems in innovation in other academic fields of study.
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Identify sources of funding available to students, faculty</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">and</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">staff</span></span>
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**Identify needs on campus and collaborate with local partners to create innovative events pertaining to underrepresented fields of study, such as the arts.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Option for funding for students working with faculty or staff mentors on innovation projects</span></span>
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**Engage local businesses to help students see innovation as a constant process and not commodity based.
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Publicize fund including application and award process</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Establish separate pots of funding for students, faculty</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">and</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">staff</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Talk to faculty and students about introducing</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">a Innovation</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">and Entrepreneurship Major</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Discuss with department heads about introducing design courses that fall into different departments</span></span>
 
  
== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">STRATEGY TWO: DEVELOP</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">MAKERSPACE</span><span style="font-size:medium;">/CENTER FOR DESIGN, INNOVATION, CREATIVITY </span><span style="font-size:medium;">AND</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span></span> ==
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== '''STRATEGY THREE: WORKSHOPS''' ==
  
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Create a physical center for collaboration and innovation at Susquehanna</span></span>
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*Create an event on campus to facilitate innovation and diversity through a workshop experience designed for all backgrounds. We are currently collaborting on this project together however Sam Brumagin has taken charge.
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*Host small group collaboration projects between departments in innovative makerspace.
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**Individuals from the creative writing department write a creative piece (poetry, short story, etc.) and other individuals from the design or painting department paint about the creative piece or vise versa.
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**Students outside of the innovation course may be interested in solving a problem on campus during these workshops and proposing it for actual implementation purposes
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**Games and Brain-Teasers will be provided at these events as icebreakers
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*Host event where students learn how to work through the creative process and students and or faculty in various departments can facilitate workshops.
  
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Discover exact student needs for components of the space</span></span>
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== '''STRATEGY FOUR: REVITALIZE INNOVATION SPACE''' ==
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Evaluate potential spaces</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Create</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">space</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">where the local community may have access</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Find funding and designate space&nbsp;</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Utilize as a creative, DIY space where students can gather to create, invent and learn</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Often includes 3D printers, software, electronics, craft</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>and</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">hardware supplies and tools</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Host pop-up classes regarding lean startup, design thinking and more</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Pop-up class highlighting previous successes regarding innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and what made them successful</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">“Speed-dating” session between staff, faculty, students and local businesses</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Involve</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">community</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">in the</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">makerspace</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">to collaborate and discover what problems locals need</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>solved</span></span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Bring industries to campus in order to understand current problems</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Identify needs in our region/county/town and collaborate with local partners to innovate</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Engage local businesses to help students see innovation as a process and not necessarily just technology/product based</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Assist nonprofits with communication documents</span></span>
 
***<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Partner with Johnson Center for Civic Engagement and Greek Life to increase service opportunities in this realm</span></span>
 
  
== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">STRATEGY THREE: STRENGTHEN AND GROW EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES</span></span> ==
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*Innovation Space in Library is currently unused by many students across campus. We are collaborating on this project together as a group.
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**Host fun events - innovation movie nights, food "workshops," innovative lectures and speakers, etc.
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*Encourage more professors to utilize the space for hosting class.
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**Use of innovative tools in the space during class may foster a more exciting learning environment.
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**Invite neighboring schools for innovative workshop activities.
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*Create more community-based thinking in solving real world problems.
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**Invite high school students studying innovation-based courses to learn and collaborate.
  
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Integrate experiential learning into existing curriculum for all students</span></span>
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== '''STRATEGY FIVE: BRING INNOVATIVE SPEAKERS TO CAMPUS''' ==
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Establish at least one experiential course in every academic department</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Partner with Political Science department and interested students, faculty</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">and</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">staff to leverage our role as a large Snyder County employer in order to promote pro-innovation policies in Harrisburg</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Increase student involvement in long-term research (projects lasting at least two semesters)</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Strengthen and expand on offerings and aspects of Susquehanna’s Global Opportunities/</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Cross Cultural</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Study Abroad Requirement</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Create</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">mechanism</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">for students studying abroad to contribute to recruiting international students: short-term or degree-seeking</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Establish</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">template</span><span style="font-size:small;">for returning GO students who are now inspired to engage with </span><span style="font-size:small;">world-wide</span><span style="font-size:small;">service or community engagement: “plug and play” into </span><span style="font-size:small;">local</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">community</span></span>
 
***<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Additionally, establish</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">template</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">for departing GO students to proactively research volunteer opportunities they will have while abroad/research nonprofits in the area</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Establish a “life-entrepreneurship” type program for</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">first</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">year</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">and sophomore students based</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">on:</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">who am I, where am I going, and how do I get there?</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Focus on values – how to best incorporate values into</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">career</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">path and goals</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Create and sustain a culture of self-efficacy and self-governance, particularly in the residence halls</span></span>
 
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Involve students in applied research</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Create</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">an innovative</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Global Opportunities (GO) Short program tied to a faculty’s research, involving continuous research before and after the trip</span></span>
 
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Begin with identifying a problem, then return to solve the problem, and later implement innovative idea abroad</span></span>
 
  
== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">STRATEGY FOUR: IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE HEALTH STRATEGIES</span></span> ==
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Encourage more academia involvement in innovation and entrepreneurship on campus by inviting various speakers of different disciplines to further educate students and faculty on campus. We are collaborating on this project together however Donovan Gayles has taken charge.
  
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Bring movement to students: install walking desks on campus (treadmill with desk attached, enabling students to exercise and study simultaneously)</span></span>
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*Understand the lack of innovative education on campus and the need for outside experts to come in and provide the education
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Start with a few in the library and/or</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;" class="gr-progress">makerspace</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">, eventually have more in academic buildings</span></span>
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*Create a speaker series similar to the Arts speaker series in which Innovative speakers come in throughout the semester/year during various months to speak to students
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Increase student input regarding dining/cuisine options through</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">easier</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">feedback mechanism</span></span>
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**Speakers will be of varying industries and fields to attract students of all majors
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Partner with Aramark to increase culinary education events on campus</span></span>
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*Utilize on-campus creative spaces to have speakers
**<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Opportunities for students to learn how to cook through Adulting 101-Sessions and Residential Life Community Programs</span></span>
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**Establish and host a TEDx talk on campus.
*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Launch color system at dining locations: red, yellow, green for healthiness level of food options to give</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">perspective</span><span style="font-size:small;">of </span><span style="font-size:small;">ratio</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">of healthy to unhealthy options and encourage healthy behavior</span></span>
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**Utilize a guest speaker or faculty
  
 
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Cohort Change Story Platform (Fall 2017)
  
Pitch Video, Spring 2015
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[https://www.facebook.com/SusquehannaUIF/ https://www.facebook.com/SusquehannaUIF/]
  
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Pitch Video (Fall 2016)
  
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Susquehanna_University_Student_Priorities Susquehanna University Student Priorities]
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'''Students:'''
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Pitch Video (Spring 2015)
  
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ethan_Eastwood Ethan Eastwood]&nbsp;&nbsp;(Spring&nbsp;2015)
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexis_Gargin Alexis Gargin]&nbsp; (Spring&nbsp;2015)
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<br/>'''Susquehanna University - University Innovation Fellows'''
  
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Pierce_Logan_Perkins Pierce Logan Perkins]&nbsp;&nbsp;(Spring&nbsp;2015)
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Susquehanna_University Susquehanna University]
  
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tiffany_Richards Tiffany Richards]&nbsp;&nbsp;(Spring 2015)
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Susquehanna_University_Student_Priorities Susquehanna University Student Priorities]
  
[[Hana Feiner|Hana Feiner]]&nbsp;(Fall 2016)
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University Innovation Fellows
  
[[Aviel Stein|Aviel Stein]]&nbsp;(Fall 2016)
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2015 Fellows: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ethan_Eastwood Ethan Eastwood], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexis_Gargin Alexis Gargin], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Pierce_Logan_Perkins Pierce Logan Perkins], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tiffany_Richards Tiffany Richards]
  
[[Rachel Tate|Rachel Tate]]&nbsp;(Fall 2016)
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2016 Fellows:&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hana_Feiner Hana Feiner],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Aviel_Stein Aviel Stein],[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rachel_Tate Rachel Tate]
  
[[Alexandra Haller|Alexandra Haller]] (Fall 2017)
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2017 Fellows:&nbsp;[Tonia Hall],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexandra_Haller Alexandra Haller],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:DamianMunoz Damian Munoz],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Daniel_Yim Daniel Yim]
  
[[DamianMunoz|Damian Munoz ]](Fall 2017)
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2018 Fellows:&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Leah_Cieniawa Leah Cieniawa],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brianna_Murphy Brianna Murphy],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joseph_Morante Joseph Morante],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_Williams Kyle Williams]
  
[[Daniel Yim|Daniel Yim ]](Fall 2017)
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2019 Fellows:&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Samantha_Brumagin Samantha Brumagin],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Donovan_Gayles Donovan Gayles],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elizabeth_ludwig Elizabeth Ludwig],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andrea_Repetz Andrea Repetz]
  
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Overview


Susquehanna University is a private liberal arts college located in the town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna University is dedicated to helping students become proactive leaders through academics, service, and personal assets, which is represented through the University motto “Achieve, Lead, Serve”. Susquehanna allows students to engage and facilitate conversation through our clubs and organizations as well as our Global Opportunities (GO) program, which connects students with the world by establishing a GO academic requirement. While there are opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor, the university has room for improvement. 

One of the biggest challenges that Susquehanna faces is the lack of collaboration between the Sigmund Weis Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences. Students focus on individual departmental disciplines and associate the words "entrepreneurship" and "innovation" strictly with business. The main objective of our University Innovation Fellows Leadership Circle is to implement more innovation and entrepreneurship programs on campus and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

Spring 2015 Pitch -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fupPb51eI

Fall 2016 Pitch -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbBjd26XYA

Fall 2019 Pitch -  https://youtu.be/Fb30yXi1k9s

Student Priorities


STRATEGY ONE: INTRO TO INNOVATION COURSE

Develop and introduce an introduction to innovation course catering to all majors and possibly required for incoming first-years to take. We are collaborating on this project together however Liz Ludwig has currently taken charge.

  • Develop class syllabus and research textbooks
  • Ideal Start-up date - Fall 2020.
  • Integrate various concepts of core curriculum and SWSB learning goals to effectively instruct students in a liberal arts capacity.  
    • Focus on Innovation and or Entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary focus.
    • Grow exposure of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor on campus.
    • Encourage awareness from all majors and class years to the importance of innovation in all fields.
    • Bridge the gap between students of differing majors and encourage group project work with unfamiliar faces.
    • Solve problems on campus through student-eyes.
  • Develop a a plan to sustain the course as a foundation of first-year learning for all the years to come, including plans on possible professors who may be teaching the course along with UIF TAs
  • Identify resources and funding available to students, faculty, and staff for class projects and class trips/assessments.

STRATEGY TWO: REIMAGINE INNOVATION CLUB

Eliminate innovation and entrepreneurship disciplinary stigma to encourage innovation outside of the classroom - participation in the now 'dead' DICE innovation club. We are collaborating on this project together, however Andrea Repetz has currently taken charge.

  • Understand current underrepresentation of academic disciplines on campus and incorporate new innovative solutions for departmental engagement including participation in the club - "DICE" - as a part of a class, or outside of academic purposes.
  • Create events catered to various disciplines, such as the arts, to encourage creativity and original thinking on campus.
    • Hold campus events to showcase student creations and ideas - and also recruit for the club.
  • Utilize on-campus creative spaces to raise awareness of such design spaces to gain further interest in innovation club.
    • Encourage use of new makerspace to facilitate conversation and hold events in the new establishment.
    • Speak to the first-year community about creative spaces and encourage discussion - possibly integrate first year innovation course (Strategy 1)
  • Bring organizations to campus to understand current problems in innovation in other academic fields of study.
    • Identify needs on campus and collaborate with local partners to create innovative events pertaining to underrepresented fields of study, such as the arts.
    • Engage local businesses to help students see innovation as a constant process and not commodity based.

STRATEGY THREE: WORKSHOPS

  • Create an event on campus to facilitate innovation and diversity through a workshop experience designed for all backgrounds. We are currently collaborting on this project together however Sam Brumagin has taken charge.
  • Host small group collaboration projects between departments in innovative makerspace.
    • Individuals from the creative writing department write a creative piece (poetry, short story, etc.) and other individuals from the design or painting department paint about the creative piece or vise versa.
    • Students outside of the innovation course may be interested in solving a problem on campus during these workshops and proposing it for actual implementation purposes
    • Games and Brain-Teasers will be provided at these events as icebreakers
  • Host event where students learn how to work through the creative process and students and or faculty in various departments can facilitate workshops.

STRATEGY FOUR: REVITALIZE INNOVATION SPACE

  • Innovation Space in Library is currently unused by many students across campus. We are collaborating on this project together as a group.
    • Host fun events - innovation movie nights, food "workshops," innovative lectures and speakers, etc.
  • Encourage more professors to utilize the space for hosting class.
    • Use of innovative tools in the space during class may foster a more exciting learning environment.
    • Invite neighboring schools for innovative workshop activities.
  • Create more community-based thinking in solving real world problems.
    • Invite high school students studying innovation-based courses to learn and collaborate.

STRATEGY FIVE: BRING INNOVATIVE SPEAKERS TO CAMPUS

Encourage more academia involvement in innovation and entrepreneurship on campus by inviting various speakers of different disciplines to further educate students and faculty on campus. We are collaborating on this project together however Donovan Gayles has taken charge.

  • Understand the lack of innovative education on campus and the need for outside experts to come in and provide the education
  • Create a speaker series similar to the Arts speaker series in which Innovative speakers come in throughout the semester/year during various months to speak to students
    • Speakers will be of varying industries and fields to attract students of all majors
  • Utilize on-campus creative spaces to have speakers
    • Establish and host a TEDx talk on campus.
    • Utilize a guest speaker or faculty

Related links

Pitch Video (Fall 2019)


Pitch Video (Fall 2018)

Cohort Change Story Platform (Fall 2017)

https://www.facebook.com/SusquehannaUIF/

Pitch Video (Fall 2016)

Pitch Video (Spring 2015)


Susquehanna University - University Innovation Fellows

Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University Student Priorities

University Innovation Fellows

2015 Fellows: Ethan Eastwood, Alexis Gargin, Pierce Logan Perkins, Tiffany Richards

2016 Fellows: Hana FeinerAviel Stein,Rachel Tate

2017 Fellows: [Tonia Hall], Alexandra HallerDamian MunozDaniel Yim

2018 Fellows: Leah CieniawaBrianna MurphyJoseph MoranteKyle Williams

2019 Fellows: Samantha BrumaginDonovan GaylesElizabeth LudwigAndrea Repetz