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= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #1</span> =
Create two new majors for the University: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
== Tactic #1: Grant Writing, Start-Up, Interdisciplinary Classes ==
*Description: Create academic opportunities for students to learn skills related to innovation and entrepreneurship that could then develop into a more formal program.
== Tactic #2: Establish contacts and a Network of interested parties within and outside of JMU ==
*Description: We would need faculty and professors to facilitate classes, and reaching out to interested professors and faculty at JMU and in the surrounding Harrisonburg Community is a good way to create those connections.
== Tactic #3: Create an Interdisciplinary Group of Professors to Create a Rich Learning Environment ==
*Description: Innovation and Entrepreneurship are interdisciplinary subjects, and therefore require knowledge from all departments on campus.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #2</span> =
The X-Labs Files
== Tactic #1: Maintain a Social and Engaging Learning Environment Despite Virtual Classes ==
*Description: Support students and faculty during this extremely stressful time, and make the most of the opportunities and challenges presented by online learning.
== Tactic #2: Create Resources for Faculty to make their Teaching more Innovative ==
*Description: We will create a compilation of resources and tutorials for these existing resources for professors to utilize in their classes to make them more effective and conducive to learning.
== Tactic #3: Give Faculty the Confidence to be Innovative ==
*Description: By providing tutorials and easy-to-access resources for faculty, we will encourage faculty to be innovative in their teaching style for virtual learning, and when classes return to normal.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #3</span> =
A program that partners students and external non-university associated businesses for experience with start ups, employment, and entrepreneurial resources.
== Tactic #1: Establish Connections within the Community and Beyond Harrisonburg ==
*Description: We will reach out to local businesses, corporations, as well as national and international businesses to partner with the university and university students.
== Tactic #2: Maintain and Grow Relationships with the Harrisonburg Community ==
*Description: Partnerships between the university and local community will strengthen those relationship and encourage future collaboration.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #4</span> =
Create an Entrepreneurship Department
== Tactic #1: Centralize and Emphasize the Importance and Possibility of Entrepreneurship ==
*Description: The creation of an Entrepreneurship Department will emphasize the significance of entrepreneurship as well as create a centralized locality for resources related to entrepreneurship. This will allow students to have greater access to funds and opportunities as well.
== Tactic #2: Give the Current Entrepreneurship Minor and potential Entrepreneurship and Innovation Majors a Basis ==
*Description: Creating an Entrepreneurship Department will open the door to more resources for the Entrepreneurship Minor.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #5</span> =
We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.
**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.
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= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #26</span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.</span></span></span>
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= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #37</span> =
Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #48</span> =
Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #59</span> =
Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
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= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #610</span> =
Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.
***Planned Event Time - September 10-14
= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #711</span> =
Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration.
*Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.
= Strategy #812<br/> =
Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.<br/>
*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.
= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #1013</span><br/> =
Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course