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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Overview[[File:BereaCampus.jpeg|thumb|BereaCampus.jpeg]]</span></span><br/> OVERVIEW =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Berea is a private liberal arts college, which distincts in Berea, Kentucky that differentiates itself by its ‘free tuition’ policypromise, &nbsp; its rigorous undergraduate academic programs and its labor programprograms. Founded as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, Berea admits only academically promising students, who have limited economic resources, especially students from Appalachia. All students at Berea work at least 10 hours per week in more than 130 departments and organizations on and off campus.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship at Berea College has manifested itself in different academic and labor activities on campus such as the General Studies Program, Service-Learning Program, Active-Learning Experience. Most distinctively, the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) Program has been the leading department in educating students about entrepreneurship.</span></span>
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Academics</span></span> STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
==== <span><span style="font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Cultural Shift</span></span> ==Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Academics ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span>In I&E is integrated into various coursework offered by the circle of academicsAgriculture and Natural Resources, Art, Business Administration, Communication, faculty often find themselves repeating what they have done Computer Science, General Studies, Education, Sustainability and are comfortable with - highly academic settings with work that doesn't allow for creativity Environmental Studies, Technology and innovation. We propose to educate faculty by utilizing the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program Applied Design and the Work on Purpose program which is currently used by DrTheatre departments. Peter Hackbert in All the 8 week Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program to teach the cohorts about the entrepreneurial mindset. This would instill courses are listed in the faculty and staff ideas about how to implement entrepreneurial thinking in each of their respective disciplines, thus changing the way the student body thinksBerea College Landscape Canvas (link).&nbsp;</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Though change is never easy, these simple programs do a fantastic job of exposing = Entrepreneurship for the entrepreneurial mindset for what it is. In order to create an environment suitable for students to create, innovate, and potentially launch startups, their mentors and educators must first have said mindset to aid them along their journey.</span>Public Good (EPG) ==
*'''<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896size:larger;">EPG Summer Institute:</span style="font-size: 19px>&nbsp; font'''The EPG Summer Institute is an 8-family: Arialweek entrepreneurial leadership program at Berea College. Each summer, a cohort of 20 students are selected through a competitive application process to participate in the program. The Summer Institute has a distinctive teaching approach; colorit focuses on the EPG Cycle of Abilities for Entrepreneurial Leadership: rgb(68engaging complexity and uncertainty, exploring values and ethical structures, facilitating group decisions, recognizing opportunity, 68mobilizing resources and advocating for change. From the program, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; backgroundthe cohort gains extensive knowledge on social entrepreneurship through coursework and hands-color: transparent;">Technology and Applied Design Program</span></span>on experience by implementing the Cycle of Abilities in local communities in the Appalachia.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896">*<span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font-family">'''Business Competitions: Arial&nbsp; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"'''</span>The Technology and Applied Design Program provide EPG department provides students with a broad professional the opportunity to attend regional and national business and liberal-arts educationsocial entrepreneurial competitions. Dr. Peter Hackbert, which prepares them for entrance into careers or into graduate schools. The the director of the program offers three areas of concentration: Technology Management, Artisan Studies, provides mentoring and Engineering and Technology Educationguidance to students at different levels of the process of how to create a business from an idea/problem. Some I&E-related courses offered Following arethe business competitions/opportunities student can partake in:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">**Idea State U**Collegiate<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TAD 130 Design and Documentation</span></span></li>**Harvard ABC</ul>**Clinton Global Initiative
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896">*'''<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentlarger;">This course covers design StartUp Weekend and </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/100/TAD-130# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; colorOther I&E Engagement: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">documentation</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px&nbsp; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">practices '''The EPG department creates the opportunity for engineering and architectural </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/100/TAD-130# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">applications</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. Some of the topics all students to be explored are sketching,</span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-attend various events and-Applied-Design/100/TAD-130# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">orthographic projection</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, 3-D modelingconferences that promote innovation, precision measurement, </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-entrepreneurship and-Applied-Design/100/TAD-130# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">dimensioning</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, product of </span>[http://catalogsocial change all around the US.bereaThe department is unique is sponsoring all student costs for attending these events.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-**StartUp Weekend – Lexington and-Applied-Design/100/TAD-130# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">architectural design</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span>Louisville<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">**VentureWell Open Conference<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TAD 345 Ecological Architecture (SENS)</span></span></li>**Ashoka U Exchange</ul>**Sullivan Foundation Ignite Retreats
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/300/TAD-345# <span styleBerea Innovation Studio ="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">survey</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">of the developing field of ecological, or “green architecture.” Topics include innovative design methodology, alternative building materials, </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/300/TAD-345# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">energy conservation</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/300/TAD-345# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">renewable energy sources</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, indigenous architecture, and ecologically engineered waste management systems. Laboratory exercises are complemented by </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/300/TAD-345# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">experiential learning</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">through student involvement in campus and </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/300/TAD-345# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">community building</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">projects.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TAD 213 Appalachian Crafts (APS)</span></span></li></ul>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbBerea Innovation Studio (68, 68, 68BIS); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A laboratory course involving work in various craft media including metal, wood, </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/200/TAD-213# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">textiles</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, ceramics, and various native Appalachian materials. Through these various craft media, is a club organization at Berea College with the culture mission of the Appalachian people will be examined focusing on factors affecting the life inspiring an innovative and work of entrepreneurial spirit among all Berea College students by creating an environment that nurtures the Appalachian </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-innovative energy and-Applied-Design/200/TAD-213# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">craftsperson</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, including </span>[http://catalogentrepreneurial mindset.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-It is a platform for students to learn and-Applied-Design/200/TAD-213# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68practice the concepts of I&E through interaction with peers on idea generation, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">aesthetics</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">versus function, advancing technologyprototype creation, and outside influencesstartup launch. Through skill development, It strives to engage all students will </span>[http://catalog.berea.edu/en/2014-2015/Catalog/Courses/TAD-Technology-and-Applied-Design/200/TAD-213# <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68in its activities, 68programs, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">gain insight</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68and events, 68and thus, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">into make a mark as one of the problem-solving ability, lifestyle, most innovative and ingenuity of entrepreneurial colleges in the Appalachian peopleUS.<br/span></span>The current activities, programs, and events are as following:&nbsp;
<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896size:larger;">'''I'''</span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentlarger;">Service-Learning Program[[File'''dea Bounce:CELTS-Berea.jpeg|frame]]</span>&nbsp;'''</span>Idea Bounce is the first business idea pitch competition among interdisciplinary students in Berea College. It is designed to help students develop and pitch an idea, receive feedback and earn prize money. It was launched in Spring 2015 by UIF Cohort 2014 and is organized once every semester. Local and regional entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders have been invited as Judges of Idea Bounce in the past.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font-family">'''Local Hack Day: Arial&nbsp; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"'''</span>The Service-Learning Program at Berea College is housed under Center for Excellent Learning Through Service. Service-learning is Local Hack day was organized as an educational experience based upon a collaborative partnership between a college incentive to engage the campus and &nbsp;the community. Learning through service into the mindset of coming together and solving a problem in Berea College enables students to apply academic electronics or computer science for 12 hours, without any prior knowledge and critical thinking skills to meet genuine community needsin coding. Through reflection It was organized for the first time in December 2017 and assessment, brought together about two dozens of students gain deeper understanding of course content and the importance of civic engagement.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896">'''<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentlarger;">Some examples of service-learning courses are:</span>Campus Challenges</span><ul style="margin-top:0pt'''The campus challenges are designed to interact with students on the campus and engage them in&nbsp;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">SPN 310 Spanish Composition/Hispanic Outreach Project (ALE)</span></span></li></ul>prototyping and thinking about creative ways of solving challenges through making tangible things.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span styleFACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Service‐Learning Project:</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students collaborated with local agencies to provide services, including English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring for children and adults, Spanish classes for English speakers (children), translation services, mentoring for Spanish‐speaking children, and bilingual community reading events for children and families. The goal of these on‐going projects is to build bridges between the Spanish‐speaking and English‐speaking communities in southern Madison County</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">PED 250 Aquatics (ALE)</span></span></li></ul>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68In the circle of academics, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: prefaculty often find themselves repeating what they have done and are comfortable with -wrap; background-color: transparent;">Service‐Learning Project:</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students developed and taught American Red Cross Aquatic Programs highly academic settings with work that doesn't allow for infants creativity and parents, pre‐school‐aged children, innovation. We propose to educate faculty by utilizing the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program and adult novicesthe Work on Purpose program which is currently used by Dr.</span></span><ul style="marginPeter Hackbert in the 8-top:0pt;marginweek (now 6-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">AFR/PSC/WST 202 Women week) Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program to teach the cohorts about the entrepreneurial mindset. This would instill in the faculty and African Americans staff ideas about how to implement entrepreneurial thinking in Politics &nbsp;</span></span></li></ul>each of their respective disciplines, thus changing the way the student body thinks.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68Though change is never easy, 68these simple programs do a fantastic job of exposing the entrepreneurial mindset for what it is. In order to create an environment suitable for students to create, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Service‐Learning Project: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68innovate, 68and potentially launch startups, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students helped their mentors and educators must first have said mindset to coordinate and lead a community workshop titled “Running for Office: &nbsp;What about YOU,” designed for community members who are interested aid them in running for a public officetheir journey.</span></span>
= Regional Economic Development Efforts UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION =
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 27px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68Berea College is committed to providing an environment that supports the learning, teaching, scholarship, 68and creative activity of its faculty, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship for students, and staff. While there isn’t a tech transfer office, there are other resources that will help students shift their student research or idea to a commercial business. All the Public Good Program[[File:EPGadministrative work that is related to commercialization or patenting of an idea created by faculty, and/or student is handled by the vice president of Academics and the Dean of Faculty.jpeg|thumb]]</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program creates a multi-year, learning experience for Berea students to practice and implement Entrepreneurial Leadership in rural communities of Central Appalachia. The EPG teaching approach is expressed in the EPG Cycle of Abilities for Entrepreneurial Leadership. That cycle centers on six core learning goals of the program: engaging complexity and uncertainty, exploring values and ethical structures, facilitating group decisions, recognizing opportunity, mobilizing resources and advocating change. Through “Within this program, Berea College is able to select 20 students to participate in an 8 week summer institute based in Central Appalachia working to create a more sustainable economy for future generations. This is done in a variety of wayscontext, one of the most recent Intellectual Property Rights Policy is by utilizing social media marketing skills intended to help small businesses reach a larger consumer base. Another way is through the travel and tourism industry. Summer 2014, Cohort 11 received 7/8 Executive Judge's signatures to declare interest in the developing the Kentucky Trail Town system for their towns.</span></span>:
= <span style="color: rgb(68*encourage excellence and innovation in teaching, scholarship, and creative activities by identifying and protecting the intellectual property rights of faculty, staff, 68students, 68); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 35px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.4; background-color: transparentand the College;">Co-curricular Activities</span> =<ul style="margin-top: 0pt*encourage the notion that creative and scholarly works produced at Berea College should advance the state of knowledge and contribute to the public good; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline*acknowledge and preserve the traditional property rights of scholars with respect to products of their intellectual endeavors (e.g., books, articles, manuscripts, plays, writings, musical scores, and works of art); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tech Club</span></span></li>and<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Speech *guide policy and Debate Team</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hispanic Outreach Project</span></span></li></ul>process for commercial uses of intellectual property other than the traditional products of scholarly work.
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"br/><span style="font-sizeThis Policy covers all types of intellectual property, including, in particular, works protected by copyright, patent, and trade secret laws. Although the following list is not exhaustive, it provides examples of the kinds of work the Policy addresses: 35px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68inventions, discoveries, trade secrets, trade and service marks, writings, art works, musical compositions and performances, software, 68literary works, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;and architecture.” (">Resources</span></span> =<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space[http: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Louisville Startup Weekend</span></span><catalog.berea.edu/li><li><span id="docs2013-internal2014/Faculty-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lexington Start-up Weekend</span></span><Manual/li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245Selected-9856d3259896"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: preInstitution-wrap; backgroundWide-color: transparent;">Sullivan Foundation Retreat Weekend<Policies/span></span></li><li><span id="docsIntellectual-internalProperty-guidRights-90c0504e-3d7a-c40e-a245-9856d3259896Policy Intellectual Property Rights Policy]."><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Awesome Inc</span></span></li></ul>Berea College)
= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship&nbsp; UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION =
= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">UIF 2014 -'''Berea College Office of Career Development '''has partnerships with several companies for students to increase various career development.&nbsp;</span>Berea Innovation StudioIt hosts several programs such as the yearly '''''career fair'''''that brings outside industries in to recruit students for both internships and full-time positions. It also organizes various events throughout the year to prepare students for internships and life after graduation, such as&nbsp;''' =''Cornell Weekend'''''. Cornell Weekend is an event where MBA students from Cornell University come to Berea College for a weekend and meet with students to help them with their resumes and practice interviews with them. It also provides students with funding for various career development opportunities and graduate school endeavors like funds for professional clothing, grants for graduate school application and travel, for job interviews, and attending professional conferences.
== Description =REGIONAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS =
The Berea Innovation Studio (BIS) is inspired by the need to provide Berea College students from STEAM disciplines a platform to interact with peers on idea-generation, prototype creation, == Recognizing opportunity and fostering innovation skills.&nbsp; As innovation becomes essential advocating for competitive and successful organizations and entrepreneurs, we recognize the importance of the BIS in exposing Berea College students to the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship, and creating an environment that nurtures the innovative energy and entrepreneurial spirit on campus. The BIS will be a collaborative space where students of all majors can design, think and develop projects with their peers. Finally, the BIS strives to inspire the innovative spirit in all Berea college students, widening their personal and professional horizon, and building a national reputation for the college.change ==
== Objectives ==The Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program selects twenty promising and competent&nbsp;Berea College students to participate in an 8-week (now 6-week) summer institute. EPG cohorts focus on creating a more sustainable economy mobilizing the area's resources: Adventure tourism industry.&nbsp; The Director of the program Dr. Hackbert shares the work he does in the Appalachia region with his students. The work is generally not known in advance and gets discovered once the new cohort starts the program.
*Contribute to a culture of interdisciplinary innovation Cohorts redesign hiking and biking experiences, and other experiences based on the specific needs and entrepreneurship in vision the program has for the year. They have worked on making Berea*Create a platform for students to share experiencestrail town, ideas have enhanced cycling experience in Appalachia and insights*Build upon have recently finished creating, alongside the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to support innovation*Provide resources to launch realAdventurous Cycling&nbsp;Association, a North-life projectsSouth bicycling&nbsp;map.
== Mission <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal;">Leadership and civic engagement</span> ==
Provide a platform The Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service department is home to more than 8 community-service programs led by students . The college partners with local nonprofit organizations in order to:benefit the local community through service programs. Students manage student volunteers for on and off-campus events. Student volunteers get the chance to apply their academic knowledge and critical thinking skills to meet genuine community needs. Through reflection and assessment, students gain the deeper understanding of the importance of civic engagement.
*Get to know the basic concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship*Support the building of interdisciplinary networks and teams*Create an ecosystem of innovative organizations and individuals*Nurture business ideas to advance them to the incubation and initial funding stagesPrograms Offered:
== Values ==*Berea Buddies*Berea Teen Mentoring*Adopt a Grandparent*Habitat for Humanity*The Hispanic Outreach Project*People Who Care*Berea Tutoring*Service Learning*Community Partnerships*Bonner Scholars
*Encourage the participation of all = Landscape Canvas = [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pFB3mAVfATLtQX7OAcY4OWUp8LS943qGYSfS4a8WGYU/edit#gid=4 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet] = Related Links = [[Berea College students from different academic backgroundsStudent Priorities]]*Value all ideas and input from all involved students and faculty*Promote creativity, a spirit of collaboration, and an environment for the exchanging of ideas'''University Innovation Fellows'''
== Activities ==<br/>Spring 2018:
*Coding Saturdays*P2P Ideas review*Prototype and design sessions*Hacker Camps*Startups Weekends*Makers Faire*Designing projects for business and community partners[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andreea_Teban Andreea Teban]
= <span style="font-size[http:large;">'''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurships</span>'''</span><bruniversityinnovation.org/wiki/> =Julia_Roberts Julia Roberts]
= <span style="font-size[http:large;">'''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span>'''</span>'''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Description<universityinnovation.org/span>'''<brwiki/> =Kayla_barbour Kayla Barbour]
Berea College has a history of motivating and encouraging faculties to build their creative and entrepreneur skills . There are funds availabe for faculty members and staff to be used to develop theoir creative ideas. For example,Dr. Peter Hackbert<span style="color[http: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;who is currently the William and Kay Moore Chair of Entrepreneurship and Management, endowed in 1999 to Berea College by a gift from William T//universityinnovation. Moore Jr., Berea Alumnus from the class of 1945, with support from the college help provide leadership for the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good Program on campus<org/wiki/span>Rodney_Kimbangu Rodney Kimbangu]
== <span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"></span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Objective:&nbsp;</span> ==
*<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">The objective is to make faculty members more interested in entrepreneurship</span>
*<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"></span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">It also allows faculty members to be aware of the supporting services available to them from the college to develop their creative thinking.</span>
*<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"></span>To encourage innovation and creative thinking skills among faculty and staffs
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Spring 2016:
== Mission[http: ==//universityinnovation.org/Ishwar%20Agarwal Ishwar Agarwal]
*Encourage innovation and creative thinking among faculty and staff*Enable faculties and staffs to be in a better position to encourage entrepreneurship among students[http://universityinnovation.org/Bessaad%20Syrine Bessaad Syrine]
== Values ==[http://universityinnovation.org/Minashsha%20Zareel%20Lamisa Minashsha Lamisa]
*The college values all faculties and staffs and staff with innovation ideas and makes availabe funds to help turn their ideas into a reality*The college also values who encourage students to be entrepreneur and supports faculties to develop curricula, which are geared towards promoting entrepreneurship among students[http://universityinnovation.org/Talha%20Rehman Talha Rehman]
= Landscape Canvas =
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= Related Links =Spring 2015:
[[Berea College Student PrioritiesTran K. Nguyen|Berea College Student PrioritiesTran Nguyen]]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKuQbBl0Lo Project Pitch[Dylan mullins|Dylan Mullins]]
University Innovation Fellows:&nbsp;[[Jacob Heller]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tran_K._Nguyen Tran Nguyen[Eugeniu Prodan]]&nbsp;
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dylan_mullins Dylan Mullins[Anthony Ayebiahwea]]&nbsp;
[[Jacob Heller|Jacob HellerRobert Hosking]]&nbsp;
[[Eugeniu Prodan|Eugeniu Prodan]]
[[Anthony Ayebiahwea|Anthony Ayebiahwe]]&nbsp;
[httpSpring 2014://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Robert_Hosking#Related_Links Robert Hosking]
[[Ali Djire|Ali Djire]]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
[[Solomon Alolga|Solomon Alolga]]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ability_Kakama Ability Kakama]
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