Priorities:University of California Berkeley Student Priorities

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Overview

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Strategy #1: Introducing design thinking to multidisciplinary students

Overview:

Need- students outside of design are not exposed to design thinking. Design thinking is an efficient way to collaborate 

Solution- The Invention Corps 

Project leads: Precious Listana & James Zamora

Tactics & Execution

1. Create a club on campus called The Invention Corps of Berkeley that focuses on design thinking and innovative technology (BY: 12/2016)

2. Introduce students who may have never gotten the chance to learn the design process to the Invention Corps of Berkeley (BY: 02/2017)

3. Hold voluntary classes in which we invite students from all majors to learn more about the design process (BY: 05/2017)

4. Host a spring showcase that highlights the collaborative work of the inventors and the professors (BY: 05/2017)

5. Introduce group design thinking to the Golden Bear Orientation Leaders to educate newly admitted students to collaborative innovation (BY: 08/2017)

Strategy #2: Forming relationships between students and professors

Overview:

Need One of the biggest resource on campus to connect students and professors is the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), but most students do not optimize this resource. Students want to get exposed to application-based opportunities, and one way to do that is to collaborate with professors & graduate students.

Solution: The Invention Corps  

Project leads: Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah

Tactics & Execution

1. Organizing a Professor Pitch Night where students from The Invention Corps of Berkeley are able to pick semester projects based on the professor pitches (BY: 02/2017)

2. Establish a mentorship program between a project group and their respective professor (BY: 03/2017)

3. Host a spring showcase that highlights the collaborative work of the inventors and the professors (BY: 05/2017)

Strategy #3: Creating modular-segmented classes that guide freshmen to multiple disciplines 

Overview:

Students have a hard time anticipating their maor in college. This class is to provide students with the introduction to impacted majors on campus. Each week, there would be different professors that would Every week, they would participate in a different major 

Project leads: Alex Kamgar 

Tactics & Execution

1. Start asking around students to gauge interest in a class like this (BY: 03/2017)

2. Meet with professors and administration to better undestand the complexity of creating this type of class and better undestand the scope of this project (BY: 04/2017)

3. Contact the Department chair of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and mentor a seminar (BY: 04/2017)

Strategy #4: Pairing a design course with the top 10 majors that fall under pre-professional career ambitions

Project leads: Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah 

Tactics & Execution

1. Populate a repertoire of the top 10 most popular majors at UC Berkeley (BY: 03/2017)

2. Discover all "pre-professional" career options such as: pre-med, pre-law, pre-business, and integrate an umbrella system that can count for a major requirement/breadth within their respective departments (BY: 04/2017)

3. Talk to professors that are already doing something similar like Robert Full's Bio-inspired design class and Sara Beckman's Collaborative Innovation (BY: 03/2017)

4. Contact the Department chair of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and mentor a seminar (BY: 04/2017)

5. Research the economic barriers and provide a pitch deck that will highlight the monetary gain for not only the school, but also the professors (BY: 05/2017)

6. Innovate upon already existing curriculums and further develop a curriculum that will embody design thinking alongside collaborating professors from Jacobs Institute of Design, Saturdja Center (CITRIS) and the Blum Center (BY: 05/2017)

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Related Links

Hyperlink the following:

[Your campus name] Strategic Priorities

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Hyperlink the name of every UIF who has ever gone through the program and point people to their wiki bio. List them in reverse chronological order. Use headings to separate cohorts like this "Spring 2017 UIF:'.

When you are done, make sure you have the tag at the bottom of every student priorities page here so that it is listed in the Student Priorities category.