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= <span style="font-size:largerlarge"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>
= <span style="font-size:largerlarge"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =
== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==
=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors: economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>
== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==
