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#Notification of all entries of their presence in the wiki. It's now their responsibility to keep their pages up to date. The objective is for the wiki to be THE resource amongst the NDSU I&E community, so groups will have motivation to keep their page up-to-date. Schedule: Launch of Wiki - 1 week, if possible. This is to allow groups to make changes to their preset pages.

= Strategy #2: Provide Financial and Legal Assistance for I&E Teams =

It was noted upon review of the landscape canvas that NDSU I&E resources in grant, legal, and financial assistance were found sorely wanting. The ability for teams/individuals to understand how to receive funding is of paramount importance as, much as we hate to admit it, innovation generally isn't free....patents ''definitely'' aren't free, and turning an idea into a marketable product is something that can kill a project if the financials are not planned for.

#Establishing a rough chart for 'how and who' an idea progresses through the pipeline and who can assist with each step. Schedule: summer '14-January 2015.

#Formally launching a 'fast track to business creation' (name definitely not final!) program, or at least being able to feature it as one of the services of the I-space. Schedule: Spring semester 2015. Reason: The fulfillment of this tactic requires that almost every other tactic listed thus far be fairly well completed before it can be done. This is also one of the more ambitious tactics in play, banking on the success of the I-space and cooperation between multiple departments.

'''Strategy #3: Creating a More Applied, Hands on, Undergraduate Experience'''

Following are an array that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

'''Tactic #1:Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''

*Description: The sooner students realize that the faster they can get involved with the campus, potential employers, real world work and experience the more excited they will be about taking the bull by the horns to steer their desires in whichever way they want them to go. Many students dreaded the way their high school educations were conducted. In high school lots of people say, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Now is time! Unforetunately, many freshman students have no clue what they want to do with their lives, and others just need to follow the directions to the map they have made in their heads (minority of students). The catering to these "undecided" students is essential to change the mindset of what it is to experience college. (Not just going to parties) The basis of this tactic is to empower students to actively seek hands on skills in their choosen career path. This maybe in the form of jobs, volunteering, clubs, and other outgoing groups.

*Team Leaders: UNIV 189 professors? Dorm RAs? People responsible for scheduling motivational speakers (Specifically for college students)? I placed question marks behind each of these leaders because this is just what comes to mind of people who would be able to aid in this tactic. Possibly more.

*Milestones:

**Support from potential team leaders

**Actually getting students to go to speakers, be active in clubs, take internships, and learn what they want to learn outside of the traditional classroom.

**Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.

**University and individual colleges alter ciriculums

**Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world"

'''Tactic #2''': '''Classroom Driven Experience''' (Science Student Perspective)

*Description: Use critical thinking and problem solving educational tactics along with or after a  traditional lecture class and lab is complete. Labs are where these problem solving strategies can be applied more. An additional lab course should be available that adhears to more of using what they learned in that lab and lecture in a more investigative/problem solving way. This critical thinking experience would come after the student has complete the previous course.The class would be structured around what I would say as mini-research experiments. The students would use previous knowledge to help guide themselves into theories and hypothesies of what they believe could be the answer to whatever they are working on. Then they would carry out experiments to tests these ideas. -A very rough outline on how the class would be structured.

*Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, I have heard rumors of similiar sounding classes that will be starting up soon in my department by - Janice Haggart. I also believe Dr. Angela Hodgson is in her second year of a similiar class.

*Milestones:

**Curriculum Assesments

**Find evidence that students who take this class are more succesful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class

**Integrate into regular ciriculum

**Faculty support from multiple departments

**Development of similiar courses in other departments

'''Tactic #3: Mentor Driven''''''Experience'''

*Description: Having outside entrepreneurs, businesses, or research professors "take in" students as mentees/apprentices/interns. A good comparison would be like a "Big Brother, Big Sister" for students with drive and passion to get right out into the real world while they work on their degrees.

*Team Leaders: TBD

*Milestones:

**Small number of mentors ready to pave the way

**Incorporate into already existing career fair

**More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to attrack the best and brightest

**"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool

**Students rewarded for their work other than the experience

**Succes stories as a recruitment tool for both students and new mentors

= Impact =

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