Priorities:Western Michigan University Student Priorities
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Overview of Strategies
Strategy 1
First Year Experience (FYE) Class
Western Michigan University, like many other colleges, offers a list of courses designed specifically for first year students. These First Year Experience (FYE) classes are designed to connect new students to faculty, staff, student leaders and peers to facilitate their success. Additionally, this two credit course provides great opportunities for students to explore their personal interests and discover the available student organizations that are pursuing these innitiatives at a professional level. A full description of these courses and curriculum can be found here (http://wmich.edu/fye/firstyear-seminar.html). As an already existing course that accesses the majority of freshman, this is a very attractive opportunity to instill and promote the values of innovation and entrepreneurship at WMU.
To gain access through these courses, the following tactics should be implemented:
Tactic #1- We need to start by meeting with the leaders who put together the FYE program and see what it will take to include entrepreneurship as a totally separate unit or incorporate it in each FYE section for a few week period.
Tactic #2- Begin by working closely with entrepreneurship professors across campus find out what they would want to include in the FYE class schedule. We need to make sure that the course only gives a basic look at what entrepreneurship is to help educate students and help them learn more about what studying entrepreneurship as a degree would look like
