Priorities:University of California Berkeley Student Priorities
NOTE: Always use WikiTextEditor (versus the RichTextEditor). It's A LOT easier for you and for us to edit your page.
Contents
Overview
This is where you embed your YouTube Project Pitch. Swap out this one for yours. This video happens to be of a guy who shows you how to embed a YouTube video into this type of wiki:
Strategy #1: Introducing design thinking to multidisciplinary students
Overview:
Need- students outside of design are not exposed to design thinking. Design thinking is an efficient way to collaborate
Solution- The Invention Corps
Project leads: Precious Listana & James Zamora
Tactics & Execution
1. Create a club on campus called The Invention Corps of Berkeley that focuses on design thinking and innovative technology (BY: 12/2016)
2. Introduce students who may have never gotten the chance to learn the design process to the Invention Corps of Berkeley (BY: 02/2017)
3. Hold voluntary classes in which we invite students from all majors to learn more about the design process (BY: 05/2017)
4. Host a spring showcase that highlights the collaborative work of the inventors and the professors (BY: 05/2017)
5. Introduce group design thinking to the Golden Bear Orientation Leaders to educate newly admitted students to collaborative innovation (BY: 08/2017)
Strategy #2: Forming relationships between students and professors
Overview:
Need One of the biggest resource on campus to connect students and professors is the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), but most students do not optimize this resource. Students want to get exposed to application-based opportunities, and one way to do that is to collaborate with professors & graduate students.
Solution: The Invention Corps
Project leads: Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah
Tactics & Execution
1. Organizing a Professor Pitch Night where students from The Invention Corps of Berkeley are able to pick semester projects based on the professor pitches (BY: 02/2017)
2. Establish a mentorship program between a project group and their respective professor (BY: 03/2017)
3. Host a spring showcase that highlights the collaborative work of the inventors and the professors (BY: 05/2017)
Strategy #3: Creating modular-segmented classes that guide freshmen to multiple disciplines
Overview:
Students have a hard time anticipating the needs and roles they play in their specific majors. Often students maybe even regret the major or path they chose in college due to just unknown factors that can be avoided with more knoweldge. This goal focuses on delivering students knoweldge about the possible fields they can go to targeted specifically to freshman. This optional class would allow students to get a little glimpse into most majors here on campus, providing them information on workload, requirements, difficulty, opportunities, resources, and most importantly jobs. This class will hopefully reduce the number of students who switch their majors sophomre and junior year or even prevent students regreting their major choice.
This class would have numerous professors come in every week and teach the same curriculum each module. Students then would have the option of going to whichever professor / major they are interested in and stay in that all week doing all the material and maybe even homework. Then the next week they would choose another professor / major module to attend to gain more knowedlge about all Cal has to offer.
Project leads: Alex Kamgar
Tactics & Execution
1. Start asking around students to gauge interest in a class like this (BY: 03/2017)
2. Meet with professors and administration to better undestand the complexity of creating this type of class and better undestand the scope of this project (BY: 04/2017)
3. Decide curriculum priorities and structure of class, such as how ofter professors should come, how long each module would be
either with professors coming every week and students choose, or professors come one week per semester and students don't choose. (BY: 04/2017)
4. Contact the Department chair of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and mentor a seminar (BY: 04/2017)
Strategy #4: Pairing a design course with the top 10 majors that fall under pre-professional career ambitions
Project leads: Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah
Tactics & Execution
1. Populate a repertoire of the top 10 most popular majors at UC Berkeley (BY: 03/2017)
2. Discover all "pre-professional" career options such as: pre-med, pre-law, pre-business, and integrate an umbrella system that can count for a major requirement/breadth within their respective departments (BY: 04/2017)
3. Talk to professors that are already doing something similar like Robert Full's Bio-inspired design class and Sara Beckman's Collaborative Innovation (BY: 03/2017)
4. Contact the Department chair of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and mentor a seminar (BY: 04/2017)
5. Research the economic barriers and provide a pitch deck that will highlight the monetary gain for not only the school, but also the professors (BY: 05/2017)
6. Innovate upon already existing curriculums and further develop a curriculum that will embody design thinking alongside collaborating professors from Jacobs Institute of Design, Saturdja Center (CITRIS) and the Blum Center (BY: 05/2017)
Look at me... I'm a new section
Tactic #1
Tactic #2
Related Links
Hyperlink the following:
[Your campus name] Strategic Priorities
and
Hyperlink the name of every UIF who has ever gone through the program and point people to their wiki bio. List them in reverse chronological order. Use headings to separate cohorts like this "Spring 2017 UIF:'.
When you are done, make sure you have the tag at the bottom of every student priorities page here so that it is listed in the Student Priorities category.