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<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Western Michigan University, like many other colleges, offers a list of courses designed specifically for first year students. These First Year Experience (FYE) classes are designed to connect new students to faculty, staff, student leaders and peers to facilitate their success. Additionally, this two credit course provides great opportunities for students to explore their personal interests and discover the available student organizations that are pursuing these innitiatives at a professional level. A full description of these courses and curriculum can be found here ([http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html]). As an already existing course that accesses the majority of freshman, this is a very attractive opportunity to instill and promote the values of innovation and entrepreneurship at WMU.</span></span>
 
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Western Michigan University, like many other colleges, offers a list of courses designed specifically for first year students. These First Year Experience (FYE) classes are designed to connect new students to faculty, staff, student leaders and peers to facilitate their success. Additionally, this two credit course provides great opportunities for students to explore their personal interests and discover the available student organizations that are pursuing these innitiatives at a professional level. A full description of these courses and curriculum can be found here ([http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html]). As an already existing course that accesses the majority of freshman, this is a very attractive opportunity to instill and promote the values of innovation and entrepreneurship at WMU.</span></span>
  
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To gain access through these courses, the following tactics should be implemented:</span>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To gain access through these courses, the following tactics should be implemented:</span>
  
<span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #1- </span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We need to start by meeting with the leaders who put together the FYE program and see what it will take to include entrepreneurship as a totally separate unit or incorporate it in each FYE section for a few week period. &nbsp;</span>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #1- Begin</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">by meeting with the leaders who design the FYE program and see what is involved in editing curriculum or creating a new section to include entrepreneurship in each FYE section for a few week period. &nbsp;</span>
  
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-31c57597-af74-7c67-ac29-cc22a7f6e25a"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Begin by working closely with entrepreneurship professors across campus find out what they would want to include in the FYE class schedule. &nbsp;We need to make sure that the course only gives a basic look at what entrepreneurship is to help educate students and help them learn more about what studying entrepreneurship as a degree would look like</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-31c57597-af74-7c67-ac29-cc22a7f6e25a"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Begin by working closely with entrepreneurship professors across campus find out what they would want to include in the FYE class schedule. Verify that the course gives only a basic look at what entrepreneurship is in order to educate students and help them learn more about what innovation and entrepreneuship are and how they apply to all professional enterprises.</span></span></span></span>
  
 
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Revision as of 01:08, 26 September 2014

Overview of Strategies

Strategy 1

First Year Experience (FYE) Class

Western Michigan University, like many other colleges, offers a list of courses designed specifically for first year students. These First Year Experience (FYE) classes are designed to connect new students to faculty, staff, student leaders and peers to facilitate their success. Additionally, this two credit course provides great opportunities for students to explore their personal interests and discover the available student organizations that are pursuing these innitiatives at a professional level. A full description of these courses and curriculum can be found here (http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html). As an already existing course that accesses the majority of freshman, this is a very attractive opportunity to instill and promote the values of innovation and entrepreneurship at WMU.

To gain access through these courses, the following tactics should be implemented:

Tactic #1- Beginby meeting with the leaders who design the FYE program and see what is involved in editing curriculum or creating a new section to include entrepreneurship in each FYE section for a few week period.  

Tactic #2- Begin by working closely with entrepreneurship professors across campus find out what they would want to include in the FYE class schedule. Verify that the course gives only a basic look at what entrepreneurship is in order to educate students and help them learn more about what innovation and entrepreneuship are and how they apply to all professional enterprises.

Western Michigan's First Year Experience Program

Strategy 2

Innovation Space

Strategy 3

Interdisciplinary Senior Design

Strategy 4

Intrapreneuship Workshops