Changes

Aside from tenure and contractual requirements, innovation and entrepreneurship is not, widely promoted to faculty for personal discovery or research. There is a growing movement on campus within faculty and leadership that hopes to change the current mindset- a movement that will no doubt find immense value in the findings of the UI fellow University Innovation Fellows program and the landscape canvas. This movement gained immense strength with a series of demonstrations of support, vocal and in action, by the students and staff. These projects are not university driven- they're , but rather done on the faculty's own time. Faculty are encouraged to document and file all intellectual property they generate, some of which is forwarded to the TTO and processed.