= Strategic Priorities =
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #1</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><u>'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans</span></span>'''</u><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237">[http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning</span>]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1161bc35-7fff-4756-36a4-8f2119e9a237"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #4</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ad27b7a2-7fff-21f3-3be3-b780f616e581"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ad27b7a2-7fff-21f3-3be3-b780f616e581"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.</span></span></p><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8fc52ceb-9ce1-9493-1449-f23cf07d1983"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem #1: Campus Communication</span></span>