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 == Strategy #1: Financial Literacy ==After conducting surveys, we have concluded that our student body is in need of financial literacy courses. The financial literacy courses will be based on credit and knowledge about student loans. Many students are not confident in their knowledge about credit and about how much they will owe during student loan repayment. As University Innovation Fellows, we want to work towards hosting routine seminars where guest speakers come and talk to students about various topics surrounding financial literacy. We also plan to engage with the financial literacy center and faculty members at the College of Business to work on this. == Strategy #2: Increase Student reach of Innovation Center ==The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a maker space with facilities for e-sports, gaming stations, VR, 3D printing, laser cutting, silhouette cutter, embroidery, t-shirt, and poster design, and printing. In our research, we found out that there were a couple of main points that students face that, if addressed, could increase the center's visibility.  We will do the following: # Engaging university communications through the student today's email newsletter to spread information about the center. We also intend to lobby for a new, catchy design outside the center. Since the center faces the advisement which a lot of students, having a catchy design could insight interests and get more students to visit# Asking faculty for space in their lesson schedules to share about the center and the services provided. This will give us access to where the students are. Also, ask for faculty to request their students to visit the center for some of the classes (by the center or inspired by faculty) and offer credit as an incentive. # Introduce short training and self-guided lessons on how to be creative with equipment at the center. Most of the training offered at the center tends to run long-term, especially over the summer. So having this will ensure that skill transfer is happening and offer students an opportunity to be creative and innovative during the school semester. Also, we would like to engage staff on how to structure these offerings to create a schedule that allows for more student participation with little conflict with class timetables. Eventually, we will have to # Engage with Faculty and staff leading the center to teach licensing, patenting, and design thinking. We did a survey that indicated a strong interest in these areas. We hope to transfer some of the modules that we learned during the University Innovation Fellows training and curate them to meet the needs of the JSU community.