2022 Cohort
4
edits
Changes
I added a new strategy for the 2022 fellows
=<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Strategy 2: More Vegan/Vegetarian Options (2022 Fellows)</span>=
<span style="font-size:x-small;"><big><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>Type here While Fordham hosts a diverse group of students on campus, they don't adequately nourish each type of person. Many vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free students struggle to enjoy their food experience because of a lack of quality and or a lack of choice amongst the food options that are currently offered. This issue leaves students unsatisfied and constantly worrying about their nutrition, when their focus should be on their school work and trying their hardest. To alleviate some of this stress and promote a healthy, balanced diet for all, our solution is to introduce more inclusive food options to campus. This solution will help these special diet students enjoy meals more, but it will also benefit the greater group of students to have more options for healthy eating/alternative meals. This solution is 2 part: the one part is the creation of new menus at the existing dining establishments that will be specifically for special diets, and the second part is introducing more Vegan/vegetarian/gluten free brands and items into the POD grocery store on campus.</span></span></span></big></span> <span style="font-size:x-small;"><big><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>Student involvement is essential to properly carry out this idea because without the students feedback and ideas, we will have little direction on what these students truly enjoy eating. To test the waters, Eden began including students that have special diets. She conducted separate interviews with students from different grade levels who are gluten free, vegan, and vegetarian. The feedback confirmed our assumptions and fears. The students all separately mentioned that they feel like they are at a disadvantage because of their lifestyles, and that they wish they were offered the same amount of choices as someone who can eat things like bread or meat. Due to their passion in the subject, Eden and Julia will be leading communication with the Deans and the head of dining services to understand what is currently working and what indeed is not. Vanditha will be running point on the focus groups; gathering opinions and asking the needed questions to find out what kids need to have a better on campus living experience. Ojaswi would play the role a middleman on the team. She will take the feedback that Vanditha gathered, research the answers to any lingering questions, and organize the data to hand off to Julia and Edento parlay to the Deans.</span></span></span></big></span> <span style="font-size:x-small;"><big><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>The biggest challenge that the team needs to remember is that college campuses have strict contracts with the outside dining service that caters all food. The current dining service simply may not offer many alternative options, and if that is the case, the team will adjust and adapt to get the ball rolling on innovating the current menus and meals available.</span></span></span></big></span>
=<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Strategy 3: Therapy Dogs for Mental Health (2022 Fellows)</span>=
<span style="font-size:x-small;"><big><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>The next step is to arrange the dogs themselves, and we would work with local clinics and organizations for this. All four teammates would call and visit shelters and clinics, and we expect this process to take a while. Finally, if this idea works out and we are able to secure the dogs, we will all survey the student body and the end of the year to find out if our solution actually helped.</span></span></span></big></span>
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