== <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></span></span><br/> ==
<span style="color:#000000;"><u style="font-size: larger;">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[http://4-va.org/ 4-Virginia]</span></span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u style="font-size: larger;">'''<span id><span style="docsvertical-internalalign: baseline; white-guidspace: pre-fab25c7fwrap; background-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u></span><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 15pxtransparent; font-family: Arial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentrgb(0, 0, 0);">4-VA is a collaborative partnership between four Virginia universities. Its mission is to promote inter-university collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university in order to accomplish much more than any individual university could achieve alone. A large focus of 4-VA is in training professors and other faculty to implement innovative instructional technologies into their courses. Additionally, 4-VA encourages and funds multiple interdisciplinary courses that deal with innovation in the medical and engineering fields.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.jmu.edu/cise/committees-groups/exec-advisory-council.shtml CISE Dean's Advisory Council ]</span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:medium;"></span>'''</u></span><span style="font-size:larger; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Dean's Advisory council is a select commity of CISE students that meet with the dean once per semester to discuss issues about the college. These issues include faculty changes in methods to a more stuent friendly and innovative approach.Along with upcomming plans for new groups, clubs, organizations, and classses within the college.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;">'''<span style="font-size:x-large;">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span>'''</span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''<u><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/JMUSOE Society of Entrepreneurs]</span></span></u>'''</span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize:medium;">'''<u><span><span style="vertical-guidalign: baseline; white-fab25c7fspace: pre-3808wrap; background-8ef5-d685-59ecf3c23ceacolor: transparent;"></span></span></u>'''</span></span><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 15pxtransparent; font-family: Arial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentrgb(0, 0, 0);">The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings James Madison University entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization we educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures, and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">'''<u>[https://www.jmu.edu/innovation/ James Madison Innovations]</u>'''</span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize:medium;"><span style="white-guidspace: pre-fab25c7f-3808-8ef5-d685-59ecf3c23ceawrap;">'''<u></u>'''</span></span></span><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 15pxtransparent; font-family: Arial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentrgb(0, 0, 0);">JMI is the non-profit organization that is affiliated with JMU Technology Innovation to commercialize technologies. Together, the JMI Startup Fund, a philanthropic effort to move prototypes forward and launch companies, and the Innovation Network of professionals provide dollars and managerial expertise to prove products and markets.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/index.shtml Center for Entrepreneurship]</span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:largermedium;"></span>'''</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Center for Entrepreneurship is used to promote, foster, and perpetuate the American entrepreneurial tradition for undergraduates at JMU and to strengthen both the Virginia and national economies by encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation, and the creation of new enterprises.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madison Business Network</span></span>'''</u></span>