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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In the beginning of the second semester, one of our cohort members had a problem: he was looking for the Writing society’s event on </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Social Media and Rhetoric</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">but he forgot where the event was being held. After running around the Humanities Building and checking every Loyola website he could think of, he realized that only place the event was advertised was on a poster outside Boulder Cafeteria. Running back across the main quad, he found the poster and made it to the event (in Maryland Hall) just in time.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">After reaching out to friends and classmates, we have realized that this is not an uncommon scenario. We identified the need for a centralized “event board” on campus. Of the many innovations we plan to implement on campus, this event initiative is one of two main projects that we, the 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Cohort, plan to roll out over the next year.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Through countless hours of meetings and brainstorming, we have developed many ideas that we plan to implement over the next year. Here, we are sharing two of our most exciting ones: the Content Initiative and the Loyola mobile app. The Content Initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff to ensure that information is effectively transmitted across campus. The Loyola App will be the one place where you can find Inside Loyola, Moodle, and Evergreen account information all together. The app will also provide important campus information such as maps, RA contacts, Campus Security information, and an “Events” page tied in via our Content Initiative.</span><br/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">From sporting events, to pop up classes, to academic programs, to library conferences, to club meetings, to so much more, there are many activities happening on Loyola’s campus each day. Currently, they are advertised via posters, websites, social media accounts, TV screens, and PDFs. With so many disparate sources of information, it can be very hard for students and faculty to find information about the events they want to attend. From the conversations we had during UIF training, we believe that we can streamline the current content streams across campus to create a more collaborative environment where all members of campus will easily be able to discover what, where, and when events are happening.</span></p><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our UIF training was instrumental in helping us pinpoint the exact aspects of content distribution that we can improve on campus. We used the techniques mentioned in the Landscape Canvas and the Lean Startup processes to determine the exact need for an accessible resource of finding event information around campus. In a conversation with two members of the Marketing and Communication (MarComm) office, Amy Filardo and David Blohm, we received helpful insights on our prototypes for the Content Initiative. They informed us about the circuitous connection between the Event Services database in 25Live and MarComm’s data used on Loyola’s websites. As we discovered, even though there currently is a master spreadsheet of events, there is still room to integrate this database with MarComm’s. We plan to help facilitate the integration of these services, alongside the creation of our app, and hope to increase the conversations between MarComm and members of Loyola’s campus to better meet the needs of the community.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The other project we plan to implement is the updated Loyola mobile app. Currently, when accessing their accounts from their phones, students have to go through a four-step process to sign in and access Inside Loyola. To find other information, such as Evergreen Card balances, students must leave that website and login again to a different one. As a result of this segmentation, many students do not know how to find such information on the go.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To improve this situation, we propose the creation of a modern iOS app that will cater to both students and visitors to campus. This can build off the previous Loyola app, which provided some of these services but is no longer operations on newer operating systems. During training, we received requests from a multitude of students for this type of system, as they aspire to have a consolidated location for this content. Through a meeting with Loyola’s Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Applications, we also learned that they are looking to improve this system and we would love to help facilitate this discussion.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">These concepts are possible thanks to the help of Loyola’s supportive student body, administrators, and the entire UIF team. We look forward to positively improving Loyola’s campus and are excited to begin collaborating with these groups over the next few months. We hope that these projects will help inspire future innovation on campus, and look forward to seeing the impact that these initiatives will have throughout the rest of our time on campus.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Loyola University Innovation Fellows Cohort</span>

*<span style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap">Create an easy-to-use website using Squarespace that will organize all of the out-of-school resources Loyola has to offer (i.e scholarship programs, grants, internships, etc.). The site would also include due dates for applications, direct locations for where/how they need to be turned in, appropriate contacts for questions on the application, and much more. When prototyping, thisas generally well recieved by both students and several faculty member, many of whom were more than willing to help.</span><br/></span>

*<span style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap">Website will be updated by University Innovation Fellows, ensuring that it is relevant each year. Because Fellows already monitor the school's programs to create our landscape analysis, keeping the website updated will not require them to put in too much extra work.</span></span>

=== Content ClubInitiative<br/> === *Increase colloboration between Event Services and MarComm to share information about student events on campus. *Create a bridge with the 25Live database so that other officies can find necessary information from Loyola's master event list.