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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Being a division one university, Western Michigan has a large campus full of often underutilized classroom and community spaces. This availability of space, and input from current students highlights the desire and plausibility for a successfully developed innovation space. Existing labs and spaces are available for student use, but access and availability are limited. Additionally, these spaces only have potential to serve as innovation spaces; they are not labeled or considered as such by current students.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #1: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Allocate space. Identify which spaces could be available for innovation and have an in depth understanding for what will need to be done to each for it to be functional.</span><br/></span></span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Develope an accountability system to make sure that the spaces are being used and reserved in an orderly way. A system easily available for students to reserve the spaces for limited time and have a system to ensure that the spaces are well kept is a neccesity to encourage participation.</span><br/></span></span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #3:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student leaders available to work the rooms and keep things organized.</span></span></span>
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