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<span style="font-size: medium">'''Strategic Priorities 2021'''</span><span style="font-size: medium">Strategy #1: Creating Event Portal to increase accessibility to students about student activities.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium">Reaching out ''Strategy #1:'' Creating Event Portal to the VP of Marketing and Communicationsincrease accessibility to students about student activities.</span>

After stake holder meeting with Mary Clare Reilley, has already gone <span style="font-size: medium">Reaching out live on to the student portalVP of Marketing and Communications.</span>

Graduate students will now be added to * <big>After stakeholder meeting with Mary Clare Reilley, has already gone out live on the Listserv for campus activitiesstudent portal. </big>

* <br /><span style="font-size: medium"big>Strategy #2: Bridging the gap between cohorts of undergraduate and graduate Graduate students.</span><span style="font-size: medium">There is a lack of communication regarding campus wide collaboration. We would like will now be added to help students have a sense of belonging to their the Listserv for campusactivities.</spanbig>

<br /><span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #2:'' Bridging the gap between cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students.</span> <span style="font-size: medium">There is a lack of communication regarding campus wide collaboration. We would like to help students have a sense of belonging to their campus.</span>  <span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #3: '' Fully utilize campus resources (campus screens throughout campus) to instantly communicate events and increase awareness. </span>

</div><span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #1: '' Creating community by increasing interdisciplinary programs and events that incorporate a wider range of knowledge.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #2: '' Increase communication between professors and students regarding research opportunities and events </span>

<span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #3: '' Facilitate all of the information regarding campus organizations and club events into one, simple, easy access hub or app.</span>

 <span style="font-size: medium">''Strategy #1: '' Academic Social Media</span>

 <big>Strategy #2: Introduce “Design Thinking Tasks” at Freshmen Orientations</big><div><big>Orientation leaders would be trained with premade lesson plans facilitated by us.&nbsp; Our lesson plans will be concise and consist of design thinking tasks/challenges.&nbsp; Ideally, the freshmen would work together in groups to figure out creative ways to solve problems through multiple design thinking methods and challenges.&nbsp; This will be used to introduce entrepreneurship and help motivate them to get more involved with entrepreneurship on campus in the future.&nbsp; &nbsp;</big></div><div><big>Initially, we would train our orientation leaders with what the lesson plans we made consist of along with actually teaching them about entrepreneurship to ensure an authentic reciprocation from the orientation leaders to the incoming freshmen.&nbsp; We would collaborate with the orientation leaders and faculty and explain to them the lesson plan and how it could be incorporated with their activities.&nbsp; Through prior training of the orientation leaders before the actual orientation this would ensure the feasibility of it continuing annually.&nbsp;&nbsp;</big></div><div><big>''Strategy #3: Mix it Up…''</big><big>The syllabus is arguably the most important part of any course or lecture at any college or university setting. If it is the first thing that is reviewed and/or looked at to get a general idea of the lecture/course structure, why not incorporate entrepreneurship and innovation in some way and tie it into the task at hand. Keeping in contact with faculty as well as the administration would allow the students to produce and think outside the box despite the major.&nbsp; Working along the side of professors to ensure clarity of how we could collaboratively integrate entrepreneurship within their preset topics on their syllabus or how we can incorporate a design thinking method to fit their lesson.&nbsp; This is mixing up the traditional ways of lecturing to a more fun, interactive and creative way to learn.&nbsp;</big></div><div><big>''Strategy #4: Introducing Innovative Games''</divbig><divbig>After overviewing the orientation schedule, we are able to see that innovative games aren’t being introduced to incoming students. Playing innovative games are a&nbsp; fun way to build confidence, be creative, collaborate and&nbsp; find your passions. Some games that can be played include giving&nbsp; students legos or jenga pieces in to spark creative building. Giving students “The Big Creativity Can”, or&nbsp; Play-Doh that can help them&nbsp; prototype ideas they may have already. A Marshmallow Challenge where students work in teams to create the tallest tower with only string, tape, spaghetti and marshmallows. The Wallet Challenge were students team up to design a wallet suitable to the partners needs, These innovative games&nbsp; allow&nbsp; students to be introduced&nbsp; to creative thinking&nbsp; through simple objects.&nbsp;</big></div><div><big><br /></big></div><div><big><br /></divbig><div>Strategy #5</div><div><br /big>''Strategy #5''</divbig><divbig>We can ideate with our stakeholders the mapping of executing a design challenge program at orientation. We can pitch this program glimpse into entrepreneurship during freshman orientation. So that new students on campus are more comfortable by being exposed to entrepreneurship in a fun, creative and challenging way. Also incorporating an activity like this will provide variety to the current schedule on campus where incoming freshmen are simply consuming information. This program will be a hands-on activity that will be effective towards community building and communication.</div><div><br /big></div><div><br /></div><divbig>''Strategy #6: Live Questionnaire with...''</divbig></div><br /></div><divbig>Orientation at Iona is a 2-day event allowing students to get situated and comfortable with the environment around them. There are 6 sessions that tackle different events on the first and&nbsp; on the second day. This strategic priority would be great as it is very inexpensive and only requires fitting in with the schedule already provided for orientation and sitting in a designated area to engage the freshman. These activities will be taken out strategically and in a way that would engage the freshman’s recollection of their favorite changemakers or entrepreneurs what they liked about the entrepreneurs’ innovative solution to their problem.&nbsp;</big></div><div><big>This in turn, would create a sense of possibility at the campus with the students constantly being reminded that they have a career ahead of them and should decide to use it wisely. With these questions and activities and activities at the orientation they would be asked what they would have done if they were in the shoes of the entrepreneur being described at hand. Thus, creating more senses of self-empowerment, opportunity and the ability to envision.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /big></div><div>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ygsz43cXpk</div>  

''<big>Strategy #1: Introduce a campus wide Club Competition</big>''

<big>Team Leader: CEO at Iona - The Entrepreneurship Club</big>

<big>Reach out to the Office of Student Development and collaborate with the Hynes Institute to create competition guidelines</big>

<big>Submit a funding proposal to the Office of Student Development and the Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation to secure funding for the prize(s)</big>

<big>Reach out to club presidents and have them organize teams within their club</big>

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''<big>Strategy #2: Introduce a "Flip It to Win It" Challenge</big>''

<big>Team Leader: TBD</big>

<big>Incorporate this challenge into the Columba Cornerstone class, a class all freshmen or first-year students take</big>

<big>Have professors include this challenge into the course in a way that relates to the theme of the Columba Cornerstone class</big>

<big>In one class session, have the professor guide students through an ideation session, teach them how to analyze an environment, and have them identify a problem(s). In another class, have the professor teach students about how to pitch and sell an idea, product, or service.</big>

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''<big>Strategy #3: Community Sales Initiative for a Sustainable Future</big>''

<big>Team Leader: TBD</big>

<big>Residential Hall Directors will be contacted in order to implement this plan on campus; They will then relay the message to their students for at least a week, and then the project will begin.</big>

<big>Post Flyers in all residence halls and buildings, making everyone aware of the campus-wide competition</big>

<big>Residential Hall Directors let tell RA’s to spread awareness at floor meetings</big>

<big>Get list of all competing floors throughout campus</big>

<big>RA’s must bring recyclables from each day to a pickup location in their building</big>

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''<big>Strategy #4: Giant “Marshmallow Challenge”</big>''

<big>Team Leader: CEO at Iona - The Entrepreneurship Club</big>

<big>Students participate in this activity through campus events already in place. Examples include homecoming, spring weekend, and involvement fairs.</big>

<big>Students participate through a specifically organized event for this exercise on campus. This event can take place in during the grand opening ceremony for the new location of the Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.&nbsp;</big>

<big>This could be part of a larger exercise which also connects other students on campus such as Greek Life. This activity can serve as a unification process during events typically known as “Greek Week.”</big>