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= Understanding Innovation & Uniting Campus =
== Strategy 1: Comprehensive Minor Program ==
Currently, Villanova offers an Entrepreneurship minor for students in the School of Business, and an Engineering Entrepreneurship minor for students enrolled in the College of Engineering. Meanwhile, the Beyond Ideas Committee functions largely to unite the five colleges of Villanova through entrepreneurship events. The events the committee holds can only be so effective if these students return to their respective colleges and entrepreneurship programs afterwards. If colleges were uprooted by their segregated bases and the entrepreneurship minor was universal to all students, this would open up a new realm of collaboration.
== Strategy 2: Expanding the Reach of Innovation == As of date, Villanova has two minor that focus on entrepreneurship: the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor which is open to all engineering students, and the Entrepreneurship Minor, which is open to the business and liberal arts and sciences students. There is nomajor which focuses on innovation. There are graduate degrees in sustainabilty, which have innovation heavy components. These courses are in the process of being filtered down into the undergraduate cirriculums. There is an increasing demand for more entrepreneurship and sustainabilty courses for undergraduates, and if these were offered as co-majors, they would be successful. Between the two, entrepreneurial minors, most of the Villanova Campus has assess to innovative paths, however there is one group that is overlooked, the nursing students. The nurses do not have their own entrepreneurial minor, or innovation space. The only way that they can experience entrepreneurship is through the ICE CaPS program for sophomores, which only meets eight times throughout the course of a year. == Strategy 3: Innovation Council Board ==
An Innovation Council Board could be created to bring about organization and form a central location for innovative activity and action. The Council Board will be interdisciplinary, with representatives from all colleges at Villanova, including graduate students and professors, to advise the board. The board will unite all sides of campus and have two main purposes, as detailed in the following section.
== Strategy 34: Publicity & Events ==
There are two main issues that an Innovation Council Board could attack and resolve: