During our interviews with students and faculty, we found that:
Fisk University's innovation and entrepreneurship atmosphere can could be improved by inviting having more companies , alumni, or alumni to come and current students give talks on innovation as well as holding competitions that foster I&E, personal branding, design thinking, and improvement of students' marketability in the corporate world.
Sub-strategies include: #Work towards organizing first TED talk Reaching out to alumni that are in graduate school or working at companies to come to inspire Fisk Universitystudents about innovation & entrepreneurship. Hearing someone's story can inspire students to believe they can also achieve greatness. Having more current students and partner companies host design thinking workshops or share professional advice can also boost innovative and entrepreneurial thinking among students.#Innovation week at Fisk University to include elevator pitch competitions, design thinking workshops, coding hackathons for different majors, business pitch challenges, public speaking seminars, resume & interview workshops, and so onother personal & professional branding events. Also having a student organization for innovation and entrepreneurship will help to train Fisk students.#Reach out to alumni that are in graduate school or working Working towards organizing first TED talk at companies Fisk University to come to inspire Fisk students talk about innovation I& entrepreneurshipE topic that cuts across different majors
==Strategy #3: Increase number of mental health workshops and leaders==