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== <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Critical Thinking Classes (Progressing)</span></span> ==

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #1: Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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! Unfortunately, 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.</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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.</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Support from potential team leaders.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University and individual colleges alter curriculums.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world".</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #2''':&nbsp;'''Classroom Driven Experience'''&nbsp;(Science Student Perspective)</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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 adheres 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 hypothesis 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.</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, "I have heard rumors of similar 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 similar class."</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Curriculum Assessments.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Find evidence that students who take this class are more successful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Integrate into regular curriculum.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Faculty support from multiple departments.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Development of similar courses in other departments.</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #3: Mentor Driven Experience'''</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Description:</span>&nbsp;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.</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: TBD</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Small number of mentors ready to pave the way.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Incorporate into already existing career fair.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to atrract the best and brightest students.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool.</span></span></span>**<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students rewarded for their work other than the experience.</span></span></span>