Changes

We found that there are not many opportunities for Loyola students to take part in start-up events. We decided to poll students from various majors to gage the overall interest in such events. We found that many students are interested in events such as these and would be interested in attending. We also found that there are numerous amounts of start-up events in the Baltimore area. We believe it is very feasible to create events like these on the Loyola campus, or make it possible for Loyola students to attend off campus events. We found that there was less interest in weekend long events or even some events off campus, so it would be ideal to bring these events to the Evergreen campus. We believe these start-up events could be an excellent experience for the Loyola students and serve students from various majors and minors. Overall, we believe the interests in such events is great and would be a great addition to our university.

In response to the low exposure the I&E dpt has, we decided to survey students to know how many knew about the minor that is offered. Results on the survey showed that most students did not know Loyola had a I&E minor and wished they had been given more information. Through further investigation we found out that these students were highly involved in our community and would like to learn skills to further develop programs and ideas. We now understand that we must increase exposure to this major as it could be used as a bottleneck for future cohorts of the UIF team at Loyola.