Priorities:Norwich University Student Priorities
Contents
- 1 The Strategic Plan
- 1.1 Strategy #1: Growing The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club
- 1.2 Strategy #2: Host More Events That Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- 1.3 Strategy #3: Offer an Entrepreneurship Minor
- 1.4 Strategy #4: Contact the Local Entrepreneurship Community and Get Involved
- 1.5 Strategy #5: Make Interdisciplinary Connections
- 1.6 Strategy #6: Designate a Creation Space for Students
- 1.7 Strategy #7: Alumni
The Strategic Plan
The following list of strategies tactics, and goals for the entrepreneurial students and faculty at Norwich University.
Strategy #1: Growing The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club
Norwich has a great core group of students that are working extremely hard to grow the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem around campus. The club is working diligently on the strategies below, but with low club membership they can only tackle one idea at a time. Currently the club membership is composed of engineering and business students. With a growth in membership we could assess more ideas and open more opportunities for students to persue their own ideas.
Tactics and Dates:
- Hosting a social event for students and faculty to mingle, ideate together, and colaborate on new opportunities available to the student body. - Spring 2014
- Making connection with other student groups on campus that are interested in helping with the goal of growing the entrepreneurial ecosystem. - By the start of the fall semester 2014
- Start promoting new classes in entrepreneurship in hopes that education in what entrepreneurship is will grow intrest in the clubs ideas. - A main goal of the club for the foreseeable future
- Reach out to professors of all disciplines so that they will recomend students who show promise in entrepreneurship and innovation. - Spring and Fall 2014
- Start a better propoganda campaign. Currently the club does little for plublicity and if we could find ways to better reach students without being an inconvenience we could see a growth in interest. - Fall 2014
- Bring in speakers that will connect with students without the large lecture setting. Students are more likely to engage the speaker an learn from them in a smaller classroom like setting. - Fall 2014
- Plan more trips to local businesses and innovation centers to learn about what happens in the real world and see it first hand. - Spring and Fall 2014
Strategy #2: Host More Events That Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The current speaker series is great and students who are interested in the topics often come away inspired. It would be great to bring in speakers that not only lecture about their work but also engage in the students work. Students could have more opportunities to pitch ideas to industry professionals and receive feed back on those ideas. The speakers could also bring an interactive session element, where the student is working on small problems or projects to help promote entrepreneurship and innovation.
Strategy #3: Offer an Entrepreneurship Minor
Strategy #4: Contact the Local Entrepreneurship Community and Get Involved
Vermont is a great state for small business entrepreneurship. It would be great to involve our local community in the ideas we have for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation. The idea of owning your own business is growing and if students could engage in public workshops and in opening up resources for the community we could produce some great changes. Working with the local community on opening up new resources for students and community members alike is great for public relations!
Strategy #5: Make Interdisciplinary Connections
The small school community that Norwich offers is great for colaboration between disciplines. Students in the technology majors could work with business majors on starting business based around new and innovative technology. Nursing students who are looking to start their own home nursing service could learn aspects of business management from the business majors and can produce new ideas on how they can make the home nursing business run smoother. Arts and Architecture students could engage in new sustainable design with the engineering majors. When there is interaction between the students from different majors each student brings something great to the table and with this colaboration the possibilities are endless.
Strategy #6: Designate a Creation Space for Students
A space seperate from school labs and classrooms will go a long way in promoting interdisciplinary colaboration. A place where students can go to ideate and prototype for their own ideas seperate from the classroom. The space would offer an area for students to colaborate and test ideas without the presure of getting a good grade or the stress failing. The student could do everything from coming up with an itial idea to getting ready to pitch the idea to an investor. The space could also offer time slots for work in the machine shop or with the 3D-printers so that the student with an idea can move forward in the design process.
Tactics and Dates:
- With a growth in the students intrested in entrepreneurship and innovation the space would be a desired location. - Spring/Fall 2014 through Fall 2015
- When a student has an idea the space would be used to persue that idea the tactic is to motivate students to persue their own ideas. - Spring 2015 through Spring 2016
- Talking with the undergraduate reseach department on ideas and possible funding. - Spring 2015
- Find and colaborate with outside sources. Get the community involved and look for possible locations outside of the campus. - Fall 2015
- Host a design competiton for students to bring fourth their ideas on the space should look. - Spring 2016
- Contact alumni and other outside resources for funding and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! - Fall 2016
Strategy #7: Alumni
The alumni base at Norwich is fantastic! We should look to make connections with alumni who have started their own companies. The alumni could help fund certain events and innovations. They could be guest speakers and judges for competitions. Alumni who have been in the same situations students with ideas and start-ups could connect and offer mentorship to the student entrepreneur.
