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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">More effective communication strategies regarding ideas and plans that impact students</span> = <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Being a large size university, it is understandable that communication strategies at VT are not always well-integrated and confined to specific majors or colleges. For the effective development of a thriving student-centered innovation environment at the university, It would be important to invest in integrated communication strategies that include students of all majors and levels,informing and engaging them on the university’s ideas and plans that impact directly their academic and personal lives.</span> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Strategies</span> *<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Develop a student-led online magazine</span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Work with the student organizations to get new communication channels using their existing structures</span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Develop a student-centered section of VT News</span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Embed this section of VT News on Canvas, (Learning Management System)<br/span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Use channels as Slack and SnapChat to communicate with students</span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Use the large screens at Newman Library to communicate about future and ongoing plans</span>*<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Use the table cards and screens at the dining halls to communicate about new initiatives in place</span>
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