2021 Cohort
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2021-2022
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History of Strategic Priorities</span></span></span></span>
'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2021-2022)'''
Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Santa Clara University’s campus can be observed in physical spaces and amongst the community. The Innovation Zone, previously named the Maker Lab, is a space for all students to collaborate and create projects with a variety of machinery and tools. Secondly, the Senior Design Program instituted in the School of Engineering encourages students to innovate and produce cutting-edge projects using their knowledge accumulated in their undergraduate careers. Additionally, the Bronco Accelerator is another strong example of the University supplying entrepreneurs with funds, resources, and connections to see their ideas come to life.
'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2021-2022)'''
As Santa Clara University is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, there is a thread of innovation that can be consistently seen through many of the different professors’ teachings on campus. From including group projects that encourage students to innovate within their major to including group discussions connecting topics to current events, SCU Professors tend to encourage students to innovate within the classroom. Outside the classroom, many professors are either directors or fellows of their own labs such as the Maker Lab, EPIC Lab, COVE, Frugal Innovation Hub, the Imaginarium and so on. Faculty encourage students to find solutions to real world problems by using the skills that they learned in the classroom; this builds an innovative atmosphere and urges students to think about the impact of their knowledge and skills. Furthermore, The Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a Faculty Advisory Board that provides faculty with a way to guarantee that students are receiving the best resources and guidance from the Ciocca Center so that they are able to learn and craft the best innovative experiences around campus.
'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration (2021-2022)'''
Santa Clara University facilitates a number of pathways and pipelines that facilitate collaboration with industry. The Bioinnovation and Design Lab at SCU currently hosts two projects with the Amronyx Corporation and G-Tech Medical Silicon Valley that are open to students interested in learning how to apply knowledge learned in academia research to market with industry partners, as it relates to addressing challenges in healthcare. In the Leavey School of Business and Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship, the Bronco Venture Accelerator, SCU Venture Capital Association, and SCU Finance Club offers corporate-backed internships to students who are interested in applying analytical skills to real-world market data and advising services for start-ups in Silicon Valley. Lastly, the College of Arts and Sciences (Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Department of Engineering) and Leavey School of Business frequently invite industry-veterans for lecture series and speaker events, where opportunities to participate or apply for internships local to Silicon Valley are discussed and presented. Santa Clara University and its academic department often invite alumni with industry experience and insights to campus to discuss prospects and reflections to current students.
<span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0735f658-7fff-baeb-ec69-5f278f242a32"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encouraging Innovative Cross-Collaboration Among the Schools at SCU (2018-2019)</span></span></span>