= <span style="font-size:large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #3: NICK RUSSELL</span><br/> =
== '''<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-size: medium;">FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS 'DESIGN THINKING COLLEGE' COURSE</span> ''' ==
<span style="font-size:small;">Through our investigation of the I&E ecosystem on our campus, a dichotomy began to emerge in which I saw a divergence between those who viewed the design thinking process as valuable in itself and those who viewed it as a means to developing technology. Tennessee Tech has done an admirable job building out the infrastructure which could support creating technology or a company, but has room to grow in terms of developing an I&E culture.</span>