Priorities:University of Wisconsin - Madison Student Priorities
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Overview
After conducting research on the resources available on our campus, we came up with four strategic priorities. These are addressed in the various initiatives below.
- Strategic Priority 1: Creating valuable mentorship opportunities.
- Strategic Priority 2: Promoting cross-disciplinary networks among students, faculty, and staff.
- Strategic Priority 3: Providing students the opportunity to see how and why innovation and entrepreneurship are important in their fields.
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Virtual Hub
Description
- The Virtual Hub will be a center, resource, and sounding-board for all things innovation and design. It will serve to inspire and connect entrepreneurs and students through a uniquely structured and interactive platform.
Goals
- Creating opportunities to find valuable mentorship
- Improving communication between students, faculty, and staff
- Creating a space that is open to the entire community and where everyone feels comfortable
- Promoting the ideas of innovation and entrepreneurship
- Simplifying and unifying opportunities
Features
- Interactive Calendar (featuring university and madison affiliated events)
- Discussion Forums (to promote idea-sharing and mentorship)
- Experts Section (place to classify people’s skills as resources to students and entrepreneurs)
- Community Resources (links to other resources such as accelerators and start-ups in the community)
- Q&A (space to ask and answer any and all questions related to design, innovation, and entrepreneurship)
Social Media Campaign (#innovativebadger)
Description
- The Social Media Campaign will focus on getting the word out about the UW Madison UIF group and to keep up communication with students, faculty, and staff.
Goals
- Promote innovative activities on campus by working with existing clubs and programsProvide a platform to define what innovation and entrepreneurship are to you
Features
- Twitter (@UWMadisonUIF)
- Facebook (@UIFMadison)
- #Innovativebadgers (hashtag to use for unifying social media presence)