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<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">William Jewell College students, researchers, and entrepreneurs struggle to gain industry experience with their academic projects and curriculum that would be necessary for long-term pursuits. Projects are used to benefit the students education in an academic setting but does not benefit the invested student in being more marketable for a future career. By accessing the distinguished alumni, local business owners, and professionals of all trade to help guide these academic projects would help students develop professional relationship, a future mentor, and skills for the industry.</span>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br/></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">More or less, students participate in outstanding academic research and work while being students of William Jewell College. However to integrate these projects into internships with local business owners and entrepreneurs, students would gain an understanding of how their education and work is used in a job setting. These relationships with students would develop a possible mentorship.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br/></div>
== <br/> Taking Initiative == To guide a better mentor and internship program for student to excel their research experience a preliminary study needs to be conducted to assess how many students are participating in research. The hardest part of starting this initiative will be finding enough people in the industry to accept this task of advising students through research or projects. Students who want to gain a stronger set of skills for working in the industry would talk to their department faculty about doing research through a business or mentor program. The research project itself can be determined through the faculty and student; or it can be discussed between the student and mentor to decide how their research can best play into their future in the industry to formulate what the project should be. Preferrably, the project would end up being very similar or exactly like an internship but with integrated reserach. These types of research internship and industrial mentorships would provide students with a greater netowrk of how their education and studies will benefit in a future career path. Ultimately, this would prepare the student, researcher, and future entrepreneur with a more broad understanding of how their knowledge is used to innovate in an industry that is constantly changing for new ways and ideas. == Difference == A research internship would be similar but not exactly like any other type of research or internship. By combining the two aspects of research and an internship, there is a level of learning to adapt previous knowledge with constant change of a competitive industry. Students will learn to be more innovative to succeed in this competitive atmosphere. This type of learning is something that can not be replicated in the academic reserach facility. The mentoring business will benefit from acquiring the student's research for innovative thinking and problem solving.
= Priority 3: Developing Innovative Curricular Endeavors =