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== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></span> ==
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">The University recently acquired the center for innovation, which is an incubator that houses innovative start-ups with scalable business concepts. The recently acquired incubator is meant to be an extension of what is done in the classroom. The start-ups housed in the incubator will be supported with mentors and coaches to help them throughout their journey. The goal of the incubator is to accelerate the commercialization of startups. In addition to the incubator, the University hosts numerous competitions in which students get the opportunity to pitch their business ideas in front of investors.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: georgia, serif;">Additionally, an Innovation/Makerspace Center has been created in the library to allow all students to utilize their innovation and creativity through technology. The This technology involved includes 3D printing, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Sophisticated software such as Microsoft Surface Hub, Rasberry Pi, and high-end computing is also made available to all students. Previous experiments include mapping out the entire CSUF campus on virtual reality when discussing potential infrastructure changes.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Image: [http://www.fullerton.edu/it/_resources/images/sts/makerspace/makerspace-011818-1_preview.jpg http<span style="font-size: medium; font-family:georgia, serif;">CSUF Makerspace</span>]</www.fullerton.edu/itspan></_resources/images/sts/makerspace/makerspace-011818-1_preview.jpg]span>
=== <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Competitions/Organizations'''</span></span> ===
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">In support of innovation and entrepreneurship, the University hosts two competitions that aim at promoting entrepreneurship amongst students. The Business Plan Competition and the Titan Fast Pitch competition gives students the opportunity to pitch their ideas in front of investors. In addition, the University currently has two impactful entrepreneurship organizations in which innovation and entrepreneurship are highly valued. One is the Entrepreneurship Society, and the second is a newly established business fraternity Sigma Upsilon Mu. Both organizations aim at promoting entrepreneurship amongst students.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Student Innovation Collective (SINC) is also currently playing a crucial role within the campus as a whole and expands upon the business school by being the first cross-campus, interdisciplinary organization on campus that focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation. The organization's involvement has pushed the these two concepts to the tbe integrated across departments (business department, the engineering department, the art department, etc).</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Developed in fall 2013, Graduation Initiative 2025 was made to propose ideas to increase retention and graduation rates at CSUF. This initiative called for close collaboration across the divisions of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Information Technology, Administration and Finance, University Advancement, and Human Resources, Diversity and Inclusion. This infrastructure has already resulted in great strides in advising, enrollment management and student services meant to eliminate obstacles, close the achievement gap and ensure timely graduation for all students.</span>
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