= Fall 2018 Student Priority: <br/> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-486236ef-7fff-59c1-bf44-b46e99f7cde8"><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;">Our UIF Cohort found that Boise State University currently has a rapidly evolving Entrepreneurship and Innovation pipeline for students to pursue big ideas. In fact, after a thorough investigation into our campus resources via the UIF University Landscape Canvas assignment, we identified that multiple I&E pipelines exist within Boise State. The confusion of opportunities that are offered, assumed overlap of those opportunities, and implied competition of these pipelines, are problems that our UIF team identified.</span></span>
<span><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;"></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-486236ef-7fff-59c1-bf44-b46e99f7cde8"><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;">Additionally, after conducting student interviews and further investigation into the student culture at Boise State, we uncovered the problems of isolation, lack of </span><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;">community</span><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;">and sense of belonging, and an overall lack of empowerment among students to take advantage of resources and pursue opportunities. These are significant barriers in terms of students engaging with the pipeline and pursuing innovation and entrepreneurship at Boise State University.</span></span>
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