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5) Check-in with all parties monthly to monitor the progress
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">Strategic Priority #8.1 (Atticus Hempel 2022): Swarthmore Constructive Criticism Webpage</span></span></span>
When starting out on this project there was no clear winner in terms of most pressing issues to solve at Swarthmore. Now of course there were some high-frequency concerns like issues with the food at our dining hall or having too much homework, but in terms of realistically relevant concerns that could be solved in a one-year time span, the most prevalent concern by far was that people had concerns. After realizing this and taking some time to think I realized that this fact in and of itself was a problem that could be solved.
At Swarthmore and probably at all colleges, the students have preferences regarding how the school is run and oftentimes these preferences are not always listened to and understood. Sometimes these preferences are intangible or can't be understood, but other times these preferences are relevant and should be acted upon, so it became my idea to develop a system through which the administration at Swarthmore can have an accurate picture of what problems matter, what preferences students have with their school, and the concerns the students hold.
There are, of course, issues regarding this aim. For example, depending on who holds access to what has been decided to be a webpage could matter a lot in terms of what gets done and what does not. Also whether this webpage is used at all whether by the faculty or the students in incredibly important. Finally, what sort of responses and engagement this webpage receives is also super important because a bunch of college kids posting unproductive criticism of their school to the administration does not seem conducive towards a healthy, productive environment and I don't want response bias.
So, over these past six weeks, how has my idea developed? Well, in short the answer is extensively. Not only has our team created a prototype that has been tested on students and will continue to be developed in order to properly address the aforementioned issues, but we have also learned a ton more about what it means to socially innovate on a college campus. So in summary, both our ideas and how project has developed, and in the future we plan on continuing this growth by utilizing the design thinking process.
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1P9pZCbRlv8-eIaHho2ko6pGe65m2PPV9VVw6Z9znQ/edit?usp=sharing 2021 Swarthmore College Fall Landscape Canvas]
