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Priorities:Arizona State University Tempe Student Priorities

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Though there appears to be a wealth of opportunities and resources available to students at ASU, there are some significant limiting factors to the usefulness and effectiveness of these facilities and resources.  These limiting factors include:

*Many of the ~80 50 courses which are geared towards entrepreneurship are upper division classes ~~which~~ , or classes that require a specific major designation (and are limited to students within to that major) instead of being broad in scope and inclusive.  The nature of entrepreneurship itself is neglected in this administrative barrier.*There is a lack of space dedicated to collaborative work in the entrepreneurship arena on the Tempe campus.  There are many spaces, but they are usually departmentally segregated. No single space offers an open collaborative work area with access to the entrepreneurship resources available on campus.*The existing workshops, labs, and makerspaces on campus are not networked in any meaningful fashion.  Each has its own requirements for access, tool safety, and cost of materials.

*Many students do not have the necessary transportation to reach many of these large -  almost superstructure type - facilities which are located very far off an already very large campus. ~~~~ *Many student ventures are competing for too few spots~~ there is no shuttle service at present (Spring 2015) between ASU's Tempe campus and ~~available funding.  Disenfranchisement of students occurs when there are over 500 startups competing for 50 spotsTechShop in Chandler.

The following two strategies will address the physical and psychological barriers which confront students seeking help with their entrepreneurial and innovative ideas. These strategies focus on the accessibility of resources and how they can be improved to reach more students.

Aubrey Wigner

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