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  == == = Lessons Learned =<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br/></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Relationships are key to developing new courses on university campuses. It is important to develop new relationships with influential professors both young and experienced in order to have the volume of resources needed to start a new class. Developing these relationships gives student leaders the ability to understand the ins and outs of university policies. One of the most crucial policies to understand is timing.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br/></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Timing can become an obstacle if excitement supersedes&nbsp;planning. It is important to understand the amount of time that change can text within the university context. That may vary from campus to campus but should be something that leaders recognize may not follow a straight line. During these early stages, student leaders will develop a core group pf stakeholders as well. It is important to build this group of stakeholders as ou ramp up to launching your new initiative on campus.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br/></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Interdisciplinary course offerings require mutual empathy&nbsp;for students, professor, and support staff. Combining departments can be complicated and student leaders should remind themselves and other with positive reinforcement that friction does not equal dysfunction.</div>

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