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=== Priority 3: Redesigning the First-Year Experience===
====<br/> ==== Design your Your "Y" Class '''Project Lead:''' Rachel Merrill '''BYU Project Supporters:''' Phillip D. Rash ''"First-Year Mentoring and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at BYU"'' Matt Duerden ''"Assistant Professor of Experience Design and Management"'' '''Project Idea:''' A mentored class for first-year students focused on helping students find personally applicable resources--resources that tie to their personal motivations for being at BYU. A class that uses design thinking to help students prototype their experience at BYU and their impact in the world. A class that helps achieve the BYU aim "Enter to learn--go forth to serve". '''Key Tactics:''' *Work with Matt and other a few other faculty members to create and experiential curriculum for the class.*Through the Office of the First-Year Experience enlist Y-group leaders to be mentors in these courses.*Work with the office of General Education to have this course recognized at BYU.*Prototype small versions of this class====with groups of Freshman students.*Work with the Career Center to find effective surveys to use for grouping students.
=== Priority 4: Finding purpose in General Education ===