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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b3c4833-7fff-a6ec-a942-179f92be9fd9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Union College has great academic programs in many disciplines yet it fails to offer any student-led learning. The students on this campus have bountiful knowledge and diverse academic passions with no platform to share them. I propose the creation of a program which allows students to form their own pop-up class series for practicum credit. It is scientifically proven that teaching is a fantastic way to deepen one’s own understanding and allowing students to teach one another will diversify the content available on our campus. This benefits both the teachers and the learners while providing an opportunity for students to gain experience in public speaking and organization. The students wishing to lead a series could be from a department and would require an advisor to assist in logistics and authenticate their practicum credit.</span></span>

<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Tyler Greenwood</span>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6c2f5a36-7fff-14d5-1a44-dea154005421" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Union’s motto is, “Under the laws of Wisdom, we all become brothers and sisters.” In this spirit, Union strives to create an on-campus culture of curiosity and analytical thinking; as one of the first institutions in the nation to directly involve undergraduate students in STEM research, Union prides itself on its long-standing tradition of student-faculty collaboration. To this end, Union offers a plethora of student research grants/funding opportunities. However, in my experience as an undergraduate, many students experience frustration in the process of pursuing their research interests. Sophomore/Scholar’s Research Seminar (SRS) courses have the potential to directly address this issue - if they are taught in a standardized, entrepreneurially-minded way. By integrating the teaching of both hard research skills and the skills necessary to procure funding and network with mentors into the SRS curriculum, Union will stand to produce more analytical, inquisitive students. Indeed, the development of a more innovation and entrepreneurship-based SRS curriculum would better prepare Union students to contextualize and articulate the importance of their research projects on an exponentially broader scale. &nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61fb71ac-7fff-3320-df5d-96bc5e93cf3d" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are a lot of entrepreneurial efforts on campus.However, there is no office or committee to connect them.The creation of an office that connects all the entrepreneurial opportunities on campus will make these resources more accessible to students and will even encourage the creation of new ones. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab should be composed of three committees: the events committee, the &nbsp;online resources committee, and the initiatives committees. The events committee will be responsible for planning and hosting short-term events while the initiatives committee will be responsible for sponsoring or planning long-term entrepreneurship related projects.The online resources committee will be in charge of updating the lab’s web page with all the information about the upcoming events and all the entrepreneurship and innovation related resources on campus. &nbsp;</span></span>

- Abdelrahman Mohamed (Amin)&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p>

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