Priorities:Elizabeth City State University Student Priorities
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2023 Cohort
Project 1: Viking Entrepreneur
Key Tactics:
- Promote student entrepreneurs' businesses.
- Provide a reliable and stable real-world experience for student entrepreneurs.
- identify and list all student businesses.
- Partner with the business department to guide and advise student entrepreneurs.
Summary
For a small campus, Elizabeth City has the pleasure of educating various entrepreneurs in different mediums. Implementing a Viking Entrepreneur mobile app will allow students to connect and monetize on the businesses all while adding to their resumes to help prepare them for life post-graduation. Viking Entrepreneur will have a list of registered students with businesses to set up links to their social media and websites. This will be an easy hotspot for their businesses. In order to make sure that students are punctual and serious with their businesses, there will be a onetime mandatory fee of $30. This will go to workshops catered to entrepreneurship, such as branding, content creation, financing, and so on. With the Viking Entrepreneur app it will allow for students to build those business skills outside of the classroom and in real time.
Project 2: VikingTALK
Key Tactics:
- Bridging that gap between current ECSU students and ECSU Alumni
- Encourage student on life post-college.
Summary
Elizabeth City State University prides itself on "Once a Viking, always a Viking". You see alumni come back for football games, but most importantly Homecoming. In those few times we as students are graced by the wise alumni, we never connect. When you see "ECSU" and "alumni", more than likely you come across the ECSU Alumni Association. However, for the current students, it's important to make those connections with the alumni. VikingTALK will be a TEDTalk based series where ECSU alumni come back to share their journey after graduating. The series will go through their major and time at ECSU and how that lead them into their career now. By Implementing VikingTALK it will bridge that gap between ECSU students and ECSU alumni. Viking Pride in a simple defintion means having joy of being a student at Elizabeth City State University. However, that can't happen if Viking Pride stops for our alumni after they graduate and is not instill in those at ECSU. With VikingTALK web series there will be a website that can be accessed through the current student portal. On this website will be access to various resources to connect all VIkings. There will be a list of profiles of alumni sharing the career success stories. These will be blocked off by categorized by majors and interests. There will be a portal or center for scholarships, internships, jobs to be shared by alumni and students. This allows for efficient and genuine networking.
Project 3: Social Inno
Key Tactics:
- Establish strong connections with the local community and non-profit organizations.
- Encourage entrepreneurial thinking and innovation by establishing business incubators or innovation centers on campus.
- Engage alumni who have a passion for social change.
Summary:
Social Inno, a social innovation club where social issues are addressed through creative and sustainable solutions through collaborative efforts from present students & alumni with the inclusion of hosting workshops and partnerships with alumni. Workshops would involve design thinking and organizing social projects for the community in Elizabeth City. A timeframe for this would be Late January or early February of 2024. Point people for this project would include ECSU staff and administration, as well as partners with ECSU and Samantha Minton, elementary school principals.
Project 4: Wellness Wednesdays
Key Tactics:
- Series of events twice a month to educate students on health and wellness.
- Encourages lifestyle changes that will impact and help the student body.
- Collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Studies, Peer Wellness Ambassadors as well as Student Health Services to help organize the events and gather monthly speakers.
Summary:
At Elizabeth City State University, when you think Wednesday, you think Fried Chicken Wednesday. Although this tradition, has implemented a culture, it's important to educated on wellness. When speaking of Wellness, it's more than just healthy eating. With Wellness Wednesdays, it will be a series of events twice a month focusing on various health and wellness topics. Such as sexual health. mental health, fitness, nutrition, etc.
2022 Cohort
Project 1: Technologically Advanced Attendance Tracker
Key Tactics:
- Install key card readers on campus to fulfill the lack of technological advances.
- Can help professors take attendance more efficiently.
- Students use student IDs to be accounted for in class.
- Partner with IT to help install key card readers and create an adequate digital interface
Summary
Implementing key card readers will fulfill the lack of technological advances on campus. The key card readers would be used to monitor students' attendance. Rather than taking attendance by calling out names or writing one's name down on a sheet of paper, students can take out their student IDs and have the key card readers scan them to ensure they are accounted for in their in-person courses. They would be placed in classrooms and lecture halls, and data on the readers can be managed from any device. Hence, professors will always be aware of who attended their class, when they came in, and when they left.
Project 2: Monthly Talk Session
Key Tactics:
- Conduct a monthly talk session to help students learn to balance life and college while adopting an innovative mindset.
- Help students participate in activities that can break up monotony and relax the mind.
- Partnering with the Department of Health and Human Studies, Peer Wellness Ambassadors, and Student Health Services to help organize the events and gather monthly speakers.
- Open to all majors and students that are in need of tranquility and guidance.
- Educate students on innovation
Summary
Thankfully, here at Elizabeth City State University, students have the chance to receive great opportunities and offers. The university offers various scholarships, grants, internships, career opportunities, and much more. However, students have expressed that the workload can drastically affect their mental health over time. Implementing this project would help students on campus learn to balance life and college while adopting an innovative mindset. Innovation essentially means introducing something new or undergoing a new change. Students on campus experience change daily, and assuming an innovative perspective can help them learn to adapt to their unique personal and college situations and changes. Hence, each monthly session would feature new concepts, tips, and different speakers, which educate students on how to embrace an innovative mindset and implement it into every aspect of their lives to break the monotony and reduce the risk of burnout.
Project 3: Communication APP REMIND
Key Tactics:
- Students can have instant access to their professors through the use of the application known as REMIND.
- It is known to improve communication between professors and students.
- A tool in which we can work with IT to install
- Professors can set office hours.
Summary:
Implementing the idea of the Communication APP REMIND will significantly impact student-professor relationships here on campus. Remind is a private messaging platform that one can use essentially on any device. It is free to use and possesses a clean, simple interface that we can work with IT to install. With Viking Engage and the campus's GroupMe being taken away, there is no longer an efficient communication tool for students and professors to use to communicate with one another. Using REMIND can fill that void as it aims to help teachers and students communicate simultaneously. Having instant access to an educator can enable students to feel comfortable, more connected to the college culture, and better understand the material being taught in their courses.
2021 Cohort
Project 1: Career Marketplace
Key Tactics:
- Cater to small business owners
- Use our campus-wide connection, the Vikings Engage app, to communicate this idea to connect with the student body.
- Partnering with the Business Department in helping organize the events based on mentorship of professors.
- Give the opportunity to all majors.
Summary
The idea for the implementation of the Career Marketplace, here at Elizabeth City State University would have its beneficial factors of establishing Innovation & Entrepreneurship skills. The student body already has a collective group of individuals that own their small businesses and even those that seek to be business owners. Everybody here at ECSU values entrepreneurial and innovative skills no matter the major that you may be pursuing. The Career marketplace will be an event that occurs either weekly or bi-weekly throughout the semester: that has multiple slots available for students to post up their products and services in the venue, the Moore Hall building, and sell to their prospective products to the student body, faculty, staff, and alumni. This project will help drive profit for the participating students and help establish more I&E projects that can help benefit students as an external source of knowledge from their respective majors.
Project 2: Creative Space
Key Tactics:
- Cater to creative mind thinkers: artists, digital media, musicians, and aspiring thinkers.
- Open to all students that need a creative space for their creativity.
- Have it accessible and well equipped with the correct equipment.
Summary
The Creative Space project will help give students the platform and resources to explore their interest in the arts and creative minds. This primarily caters to artists, musicians, and aspiring thinkers but isn't limited to those peers. The space would be a great opportunity to partner with different departments such as Digital Media, Business Administration, Career Development, Fine Arts, and STEM departments. This project would take place on campus making it accessible to commuters and students living on campus to help their expressive thoughts. Innovation & Entrepreneurship does not always have to cater to Business majors but to every major. The Characteristics and skills of I&E can benefit every student in their goals for their futures.
Project 3: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop
Key Tactics:
- Educate students on Innovation and Entrepreneurship within their major.
- Give students the opportunity to earn credit hours gaining knowledge on I&E.
- The workshop and course can be added to their resumes
Summary:
Implementing an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop on campus will allow students to learn about I&E within their majors. The workshop would be made available for all students of any classification. Students who are Business Administration, Aviation Science, and Digital Media majors are highly encouraged to attend, but if you're a Social Work, STEM, or English major, this workshop would be open to you as well. Innovation and Entrepreneurship can be found in all majors, so let's encourage that through this workshop.
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