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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bring LA Tech to off-campus places and increase I&E throughout colleges in LA Tech. The regional meetup will allow us to create design classes and incorporate all regional UIF Universities. Through the meet up and design classes, the colleges will engage through innovation and entrepreneurship with campus organizations. Others in the university can join for volunteer hours and to further their interest in I&E. &nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Students see I&E events on campus and can participate in different design groups.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bringing the Retain App on campus will allow the cohort to incorporate innovation through different schedules. Each person can subscribe to a class, organization, current events, etcetera to personalize their information. The app will be beneficial to campus through academics, and we can help maintain professor usage through allow students to input class schedules. Athletes on campus already use Retain as a way to keep up with practice schedules. To start out, the cohort will ask organizations for schedules and input all different schedules for all kinds of events. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Start meeting with organization leaders to promote new scheduling policies that would lead to more student involvement by Winter Quarter 2020-2021</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The organization expo. will keep students engaged in different organizations as time goes on. As of now, the only way students know about things happening on campus or different organizations is at orientation and welcome week. Organizations can show off different aspects to all kinds of students, including transfer students. As a cohort, we could set up a smaller trial to test how well individuals take interest in it, then we could move on to a bigger event. One way we could incorporate I&E in the event would be encouraging professors to share something they love to teach and have a passion for. The event could apply for the Makers Fair to bring in new ideas to campus. To increase student engagement, this will be on campus and also include certain field day events. These field day events will be a pickup game and some will have an incentive for competition. Depending on excitement, this will happen once a year or once a quarter. &nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Implementation by Spring 2021</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> LA Tech having a program for undecided majors is beneficial to both students and the university. It could incorporate all colleges and highlight popular majors. The dean of each college would be able to present information about their specific college. If a student in the program wanted to learn more information about a specific major they could ask the instructor or email after the presentation. Another way to increase student engagement is to encourage older students to talk about their specific major. Education majors are able to get volunteer hours for teaching a program to students. As for the university, short term, it will see small losses as each student finds a major faster decreasing wasted payments for classes not needed; however, long term, the university will gain more students and retain students to possibly go on to become a graduate program candidate. Over time, the program could turn into a class undecided majors take to figure out exactly what they want to get a degree in. </span></span>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work on the academic calendar with the appropriate faculty to make the website more user-friendly and promote student involvement. Currently, the website does not have nearly all events that are happening around campus. Most of these event’s information is sent to students through their emails which get overlooked more often than not. When the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Technology sends an email about upcoming events, for example; students often never see it because they are overwhelmed with so many other events. If this calendar was updated then all events could be filtered through to find exactly what students wanted to see and would also eliminate the need for student organizations to send so many emails.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Significant improvement in student events participation by Spring 2021</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louisiana Tech University has a thriving population of student organizations that is growing every day. While this is an excellent way for students to get involved in activities and groups that they really enjoy, our email system becomes really crowded with organization events and activities. By working with the Student Government Association on campus who organizes the student organizations on campus, we could work on making sure that the emails being sent are more pertinent to students and that emails are only sent for important notifications. This would eliminate a lot of the emails that are sent by organizations which aren’t applicable for most students and don’t contain clear information. By decluttering students emails, all emails that are sent would have a better chance at student reception including those sent by I&E organizations which are promoting their events.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Start meeting with organization leaders to promote new email policies that would lead to more student involvement by Spring Quarter 2020</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our I&E department makes efficient use of the availability of bulletin boards and flat screen TVs around campus to promote events but some colleges are more particular about what content goes on these screens. I would work interdepartmentally to ensure that I&E events were allowed to be promoted across campus because these events are for all students and promote the campus as a whole.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Implementation by Spring 2020</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c1e3f104-7fff-6b53-7943-e0189bc22fc1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work with the Bulldog Entrepreneurs club (BE)&nbsp; on campus to create a new event app that serves as a resource for students to learn about all events and opportunities on campus. This app/website, while showing all events, would be run by BE to promote specific I&E events. This app would be a way for students to see and filter out all events that they were not interested in and see only what they wanted to view. The University Academic Calendar could keep just relevant university events, the La Tech email would be only for important University notifications and the new app would be for all events and opportunities on campus.</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Begin use Fall 2021</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, Innovation Alliance will organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Refine and implement during summer of 2018</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;">[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''[[Fellow:Kayley Kraig|Kayley_Kraig]]'''</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Fall 2019 UIFs'''</span>