Priorities:University of Wisconsin - Madison Student Priorities

== Overview
== After conducting research on the resources available on our campus, we came up with four strategic priorities that we felt our campus could benefit from. These are addressed in the various initiatives below.

1. Strategic Priority 1: Creating valuable mentorship opportunities.
2. Strategic Priority 2: Promoting cross-disciplinary networks among students, faculty, and staff.
3. Strategic Priority 3: Providing students the opportunity to see how and why innovation and entrepreneurship are important in their fields.

== Virtual Hub
== === Description
=== *The Virtual Hub will be a center, resource, and sounding-board for all things innovation and design. It will serve to inspire and connect entrepreneurs and students through a uniquely structured and interactive platform. === Goals
=== *Creating opportunities to find valuable mentorship *Improving communication between students, faculty, and staff *Creating a space that is open to the entire community and where everyone feels comfortable *Promoting the ideas of innovation and entrepreneurship *Simplifying and unifying opportunities === Features
=== *Interactive Calendar (featuring university and madison affiliated events) *Discussion Forums (to promote idea-sharing and mentorship) *Experts Section (place to classify people’s skills as resources to students and entrepreneurs) *Community Resources (links to other resources such as accelerators and start-ups in the community) *Q&A (space to ask and answer any and all questions related to design, innovation, and entrepreneurship) == Social Media Campaign (#innovativebadger)
== === Description
=== *The Social Media Campaign will focus on getting the word out about the UW Madison UIF group and to keep up communication with students, faculty, and staff. === Goals
=== *Promote innovative activities on campus by working with existing clubs and programsProvide a platform to define what innovation and entrepreneurship are to you === Features
=== *Twitter (@UWMadisonUIF) *Facebook (@UIFMadison) *#Innovativebadgers (hashtag to use for unifying social media presence) == Related Links
== Current Fellows: Rachel Acevedo (Spring 2017) Hanna Barton (Spring 2017) Past Fellows: Tayler Nowak (Spring 2017) Camille Clark (Spring 2017) [[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]