Changes

= Strategy #4: Change Curriculum<br/> =Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attracts the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.<br/>&nbsp; =

== Tactic #1: First Year Classes Develop a Hub ==

= •&nbsp;&nbsp; *Description: Students at each of the schools at University of Pittsburgh are required to take an introductory class their freshman year. We could incorporate design thinking or innovation and entrepreneurship into the curriculum.  = == Tactic #2: Provide an Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Class == = •&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: CurrentlyDevelop, Pitt has entrepreneurship and design thinking classes in all three schools. However, each class is only allowed to be taken by students from their respective schools. Pitt should add a course that allows students to take a class about innovationfundraise, design thinking and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that is includes living space, maker spaces, open to all disciplinesworkspace, etc. That would allow students **To prove a need for this hub, we plan to see how use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to approach these problems from various viewpoints establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and will lead them to more creative thinking due to the interdisciplinary collaboration.  = == Tactic #3: Give credit to entrepreneurs == = •&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Pitt offers credit can come to students with internships work on their projects and research collaborate on campusideas. Pitt could apply the same thing to entrepreneurial ventures which would allow **Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to manage their time more effectively because their projects would go back to school creditlearn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.    =***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed