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|title=Advice from a successful University Innovation Fellow
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The following video comes to you from a current Fellow, Ben Matthews (University of Virginia) who writes: "''We've been trying to encourage movement from Stage 3: "I'm great (and you're not)" to Stage 4 and 5 "We're great" and "Life is great" which we are finding more and more is important in making a huge impact [across the entire campus] like we are trying to do with #uifresh."''<br><br>
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As coalition builders, we hope you will be leveraging your referential power to lead by example and inspire other student leaders to work alongside you to strengthen the overall ecosystem. Hopefully, your stakeholder meeting is the first of many in a series of bringing people together. Ben and his colleagues convened a series of very successful all-student-leader luncheons on campus. These meetings were designed to pull people in beyond just the 4 or 5 UIFs to have everyone share perspectives and data about the I&E ecosystem, and think about solutions.<br><br>They used the PDF below as a means to frame the conversation, engage participants in breakout groups and design potential solutions. These solutions were very similar, if not the same as what the original four UIFs had conceived in training, except for one important difference. By going through this process with the larger group, they got buy-in, additional rich feedback, perspective and volunteers to help make the vision a reality. In a sense, they deployed the consultation strategy outlined in the PDF below. How are you going to build a broader coalition on campus to drive big outcomes and influence change?<br><br>
