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== Strategy #3: Create Clearer Pathways to Finding Valuable Mentorship ==
 
== Strategy #3: Create Clearer Pathways to Finding Valuable Mentorship ==
  
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===      3.1 Distinguished Lunches ===
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*The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship holds Distinguished Entrepreneur Lunches regularly on campus.
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*The idea of expanding these "Distinguished Lunches" to involve more cross-disciplinary faculty could prove beneficial in involving a wider range of students across campus.
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*Create a social network platform where mentors and students alike can create profiles. This could create an environment where it is much easier to put yourself out there for potential mentors to see. 
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*Possibly create a questionnaire that matches students and mentors with similar interests and life goals. 
  
 
== Strategy #4: Broaden the Idea of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
 
== Strategy #4: Broaden the Idea of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

Revision as of 00:18, 27 January 2017

Overview

Coming soon: Your Video (Session 5)

Strategy #1: Increase Communication Between Students in Different Departments

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Strategy #2: Boost Interdepartmental Communication Between Faculty

Require tenured faculty to take one class per academic year (not including sabbatical years) outside of their discipline/ department.

Start a club for Professors

Create a buddy system between departments

Strategy #3: Create Clearer Pathways to Finding Valuable Mentorship

     3.1 Distinguished Lunches

  • The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship holds Distinguished Entrepreneur Lunches regularly on campus.
  • The idea of expanding these "Distinguished Lunches" to involve more cross-disciplinary faculty could prove beneficial in involving a wider range of students across campus.

     3.2 Social Network for Mentor Matching

  • Create a social network platform where mentors and students alike can create profiles. This could create an environment where it is much easier to put yourself out there for potential mentors to see. 
  • Possibly create a questionnaire that matches students and mentors with similar interests and life goals. 

Strategy #4: Broaden the Idea of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Spring 2017 UIF:

Rachel Acevedo

Hanna Barton

Tayler Nowak

Camille Clark