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=Fall 2020 = == Strategic Priority One: Better Teaching Resources - Better Professors == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This priority focuses on creating and implementing a module that can be used for future online classes. Many of the professors have received no instruction in how to teach an online class. Curriculum and permission will come from the deans of each college and Interim President Levit. == Strategic Priority Two: TU Houses == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This priority focuses on creating new ways to encourage student interactions in a new more virtually world. The idea for "TU Houses" is to create TU's own spin off of the Hogwart's houses to encourage friendly competition, group cooperation, and group experience. Contacts for this project include Interim President Levit, the head RA's for each dorm, and student success coaches. == Strategic Priority Three: TU Pipeline == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This priority is meant to aid the weak education system of Oklahoma by offering a direct pathway to admittance to TU for students across Oklahoma. Classes such as Chemistry I, Physics I, etc. will be offered as one semester courses to high schoolers at a to be found price. Contacts will be the deans of each college and Interim President Levit. == Strategic Priority Four: Green TU == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a "green campus" by continuing our low level consumptions of paper, plastic, and other materials that have occurred with the switch to online classes. Contacts include David Ellsworth of the University Sustainability Committee. = Fall 2018 = == Strategic Priority One: Growing institutional I&E from the top-down == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Institutional I&E does not happen by solely educating the student body. In order to achieve a culture of I&E, a campus must be submerged in design thinking. It is just as important to educate administration, faculty, and staff about the benefits and practices of a creative mindset. Here at the University of Tulsa, we desire to approach the growth of the I&E mindset in the following manner in order to bridge the gap between administration, faculty, staff and students: === <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    Administration, Faculty, and Staff Design Thinking Workshops: ===<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Short-term Goal: Begin collaborating and brainstorming with influential stakeholders about better way to engage administration, faculty, and staff.</li><li>Mid-term Goal: Develop 15 min design thinking exercises to introduce to faculty meetings.<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>We will test these exercises in pop-up meetings and receive feedback so that we can improve.</li></ul></li><li>Long-term Goal: Create a curriculum that can educate new employees and current employees in a concentrated yearly meeting.</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall Goal: The desire is that one day the University of Tulsa will brim with students pursuing new solutions to existing problems in their academic, social, and professional lives due to the impact of administration, faculty, and staff demonstrating design thinking. == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority Two: Growing institutional I&E from the bottom-up == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal of this priority is to grow I&E among students. We specifically want to target students from academic backgrounds that are not exposed to I&E very much. How can we incorporate this for students who do not necessarily have the time to take whole courses that are unrelated to their major? Our project to approach this is pop-up classes. === <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    Pop-up classes: These classes will allow students to learn about something they find interesting in an interactive and creative way. Furthermore, these classes will incorporate design thinking through prototype projects linked to the subject being taught. ===<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Short-term goal: Trial run in one class period by collaborating with a professor and finding a common interest. Get feedback and find what topics students would take a pop-up class on.</li><li>Mid-term goal: Start to incorporate pop-upu classes into curriculum starting with one class.</li><li>Long-term goal: Several pop-up classes are offered and students can receive 1 credit for each class they take. Furthermore, these classes would be available for various different majors so that the design mentality is spread throughout campus and not too specific disciplines.</li></ul> == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority Three: Spreading Awareness of I&E resources == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without the awareness of resources, how do we expect students to be able to start or even finish projects? In order to allow students to tap into their full innovative and entrepreneurial potential, they must be aware of resources that could help them start and further their projects. In order to increase the awareness on campus, we plan on the following: <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Short-term goal: Begin drafting a map or brochure with all the I&E resources available and their respective locations.</li><li>Mid-term goal: Start passing these out to the freshman during orientation to expose them to innovation and all the resources.</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall goal: The goal is that the impact of spreading awareness of innovation resources will, in turn, allow students to accomplish their goals and see their projects through to the end, along with increasing the amount of students creating/being involved in projects. == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority Four: Increasing I&E through extracurricular activities == <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extracurriculars are a fantastic way to make innovation and entrepreneurship interdisciplinary. Student organizations contribute to submerging a campus in design thinking. Students who have ever wanted to pursue an idea without knowing how or who to work with can look at I&E clubs for the answers to their questions. '''Spring 2018 ~~Student Strategies~~''' === '''Project One: Reconstructing areas in each building into innovation hubs''' === Currently, the University of Tulsa has each school split up into different buildings organized together and spread across campus. This is a convient setup for walking between classes, but unfortunetly has limited cross-disciplinary interaction between different majors. Each building also has its own lounge area that is currently being under-utilized. === '''Project Two: Get credit for extracurriculars that contribute to innovation''' === The goal of this project is do have the University give students credit for extracurriculars involving innovation. This will give students the ability to do innovation work in a busy course schedule. Many students want to work on innovation, but they are double majors or minors and do not have time to truly invest into many extracurricular activities. Short Term (before the end of fall 2018 semester): Gain support from professors and administrators in each college. Create a plan and outline of how to make the extracurriculars available to all students and how each extracurricular would fit into each major’s graduation plan. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: ~~Interdiciplinary Collaboration~~pre-wrap;">Medium Term (before the end of spring 2019 semester) : Present to President of University of Deans of each colleges. Medium/Long'''Term (fall semester 2019):''' Have a list of extracurriculars open to all students that count as one hour courses P/F. Long Term (fall semester 2020): Have the extracurriculars online and part of the source selection plan. Have the classes be worth 3-4 hours and have grades. === '''Project Three: Connecting Student Groups to Companies in the Region''' ===

The University of Tulsa has a number of marvelous number of resources for students to take advantage of. There are a handful of highly educated and extremely motivated faculty who are available to help students in any venture they may engage in. However so, these resources may be limited and some student organizations may need additional guidance to succeed.

==== Goals and Desired Outcomes ====

One strategic priority that we hold dear to our hearts is establishing a program to connect Investors and local businesses to students to enable the flow of resources and mentorship. We strongly believe that connecting students to large companies will be highly beneficial for several reasons.

~~=== Goals and Desired Outcomes ===~~

First, and most interestingly, companies in the area will be granted access to the information of students studying Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They will be encouraged to hire students to tackle major challenges that the companies may have. Companies will be incentivized to provide guidance as they will have access to some of the most intelligent and capable pupils.

As the University of Tulsa is located in Tulsa Oklahoma, many of the largest companies in the area tend to be oil and gas companies. Companies we aim to partner with include QuikTrip, BOK, OneOK, ONE Gas, Phillips 66 and the Ross Group.

~~=== '''Project One: Reconstructing areas in each building into innovation hubs'''~~<div> ~~===~~ ~~=== '''Project Two: Get credit for extracurriculars that contribute to innovation''' ===~~ ~~=== '''Project Three: Connecting investors to student start-ups''' ===~~</div>

=== '''Project Four: Space and resources sponsorships''' ===

The goal is to allocate innovation spaces on campus that are funded and sponsered by local companies that are also supporters of innovation.

'''Short term: ''' ~~'''Mid term:'''~~Locating available spaces on campus

'''~~Long~~ Mid term: '''Contacting local companies and recriting potental contributors

== '''~~Fall 2017~~Long term: ~~Strategic Priority: Connecting Investors and Mentors to Student Organizations~~ ''' ==Having materials/supplies sponsered by local companies within our innovation spaces. Having companies design the room around what they believe would benefit students.

== '''Fall 2017: Strategic Priority:''' == === Project ~~Two~~One: Innovation Spaces ===

1. Short term (within the semester): Pop-up design workshops all over campus. Colleges, also ACAC, Old U, etc.

3. Stretch goal! Create a permanent, physical innovation space that is not associated with any college or department. A TU Maker Space. Build a place to collaborate with students from all majors to solve problems at TU, in Tulsa, the world. Enact social change, practice tech entrepreneurship, participate in national competitions. Make innovation, entrepreneurship, and prototyping resources available for all students. Consult local orgs (36 Degrees North, Fab Lab Tulsa, etc.) to help design this space.

=== Project ~~Three~~Two: Foster Connections ===

Create more connections between TU students and Tulsa entrepreneurs, incubators, resources.

#Promote networking opportunities to facilitate unlikely collaborations from chance encounters

=== Project ~~Four~~Three: I&E for Grad Students  ===

*More research needed

*Advanced Governor's Cup?

=== Project ~~Five~~Four: Undergrad I&E courses separate from I&E Minor  ===

Begin Project Spring of 2018 Fall 2018.

== '''Related Links:''' ==

'''''Fall 2018'''''

[[Brenna Robertson|Brenna Robertson]]

[[Chloe Flores|Chloe Flores]]

[[Jade Johnson|Jade Johnson]]

[[Titilope_Osisanlu|Titi Osisanlu]]

'''Spring 2018'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/~~Nebeyou%20J.%20Esayas Nebeyou J. Esayas]<~~wiki/~~span>~~ ~~[http://universityinnovation.org/Cheyanne%20Wheat~~ Cheyanne_Wheat Cheyanne Wheat]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Deeds Rachel Deeds]

[~~http://universityinnovation.org/Sophie%20Zehentner~~ [Sophie Zehentner|Sophie_Zehentner]]

'''Fall 2017'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/~~DallasElleman Dallas Elleman~~Caroline_Rodgers Caroline Rodgers]  [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Conner_Bender Conner Bender]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/~~Caroline_Rodgers Caroline Rodgers~~DallasElleman Dallas Elleman]~~ ~~

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