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= <span style="font-size:~~21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background~~x-~~color:transparent~~large; ~~font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~The SPACE~~Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship =

<span style="font-size:~~15px~~larger; ~~font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">Wofford College has a number of programs that are designed to aid students with entrepreneurial goals. The SPACE ~~at Wofford College~~ , for instance, is a department ~~designed~~ whose goal is to ~~aid~~ work with students ~~in building the~~ to help them develop professional skills ~~necessary to enter graduate schools~~ and work on transforming innovative ideas into projects or businesses. Two of the programs in the ~~workforce after college.~~ The SPACE ~~is divided into five main programs: Prepare~~, The Space to Impact and The Space to Launch, work together to elaborate on these project and business ideas. During each spring semester, Impactand Launch students engage in the Impact and Launch Competition, a Shark Tank styled competition where ten students--five from Impact and five from Launch--pitch their project or business ideas to a panel of judges and investors. The winners of the event (one from Impact and one from Launch) receive various prizes, ~~Consult~~such as capital, networking contacts, and ~~Explore~~office space, in order to help them in their endeavours.

== <span style="font-size:~~17px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent~~14.3999996185303px; ~~font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">The ~~Space~~ Leadership Circle at Wofford College is also trying to make more available the tools that are necessary for innovation. Cole McCarty is working with The SPACE to develop a Makerspace, which students (and faculty) will be able to ~~Prepare~~use for prototyping, design, and 3D modeling. The Makerspace would have such equipment as a 3D printer, which Wofford already has, lazer cutters, computers equiped with modelling software, and more. ==

<span style="font-size:~~15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none~~14.3999996185303px; ~~vertical-align:baseline~~">Below is a description of The ~~Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience~~SPACE mentioned above, ~~and The Institute. The goal of Career Services~~ which is ~~to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make~~ the ~~most~~ heart of ~~their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship~~ innovation and ~~job applications, and interview coaching~~entrepreneurship encouragement at Wofford.

== <span style="font-size:~~15px~~21px; font-family:~~Arial~~'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:~~normal~~italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.SPACE ==

The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore. === The Space to Prepare === The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching. The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation. The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:

<li>Project management</li><li>Technology proficiency</li><li>Presentation skills</li><li>Teamwork skills</li><li>Design thinking</li><li>Time management</li><li>Negotiation</li><li>Leadership tactics</li>

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=== The Space to Impact === The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below. === The Space to Launch === The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development. === The Space to Consult === In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college. === The Space to Explore === The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute. = Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship = Right now what we feel as though what will be most helpful for faculties role in innovation and entrepreneurship is if we, as a leadership circle, become more closely connect with the faculty of the center of innovation and learning. We want to connect this resource more directly with the other resources we have, like the Space and the Iron Yard. Another thing we hope to do to encourage innovation within the faculty and staff is utilize their goals for their class and their departments as also our goals to make them more involved in what we are doing. In the future we hope faculty and professor will use things we implement as a tool for their students and innovation and entrepreneurship be a part of the curriculum in all classes.  = <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Innovation and Learning = The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education. Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.

The ~~Space to Impact~~ mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is ~~a competitive~~ four-~~year scholarship program~~ fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for ~~incoming~~ the support of teaching and ~~current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking~~learning, ~~entrepreneurship and the consultative approach~~ to ~~problem solving, all through projects~~support on-~~based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on~~ campus or writing initiatives in ~~the wider world~~ curricular and ~~outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local~~co-curricular programming, ~~like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds~~ and to ~~help build a medical clinic~~ assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in ~~Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti~~the service of student learning. The ~~amount~~ Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of ~~work required is roughly equivalent~~ different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to ~~taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below~~nurture innovation in the classroom. Innovations in Teaching and Learning

== <span style="font-size:~~17px~~15px; font-family:~~'Trebuchet MS'~~Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:~~bold~~normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">~~The Space~~ This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to ~~Launch~~teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments. ==

~~The Space~~ CIL works with faculty who want to ~~Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming~~ incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and ~~current Wofford students;~~ otherwise) that focus on the latest in the ~~Launch~~ application of technology to teaching and ~~Impact programs work together to learn~~ learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the ~~essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses~~ fall and ~~startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development~~three in the spring of the academic year.

== ~~The Space to Consult~~Institutional Research and Assessment ==

~~In the Space to Consult, students use their skills~~ The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to ~~help a company by participating~~ assess for improvement in ~~a team consulting project~~student learning and teaching effectiveness. ~~The largest benefit of engaging~~ They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students , faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in ~~consulting projects is~~ the ~~hands~~ scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on~~, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in~~ an ~~environment similar to~~ annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that of reflect the ~~professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college~~student’s learning experience.

== <span style="font-size:~~17px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font~~x-~~weight:bold~~large; ~~font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~The Space to Explore~~Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function = =

<span style="font-size:~~15px~~medium; ~~font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~The Space~~ This is an area where Wofford may need to improve. Because we are a very small college with a limited amount of resources compared to ~~Explore is~~ a ~~program~~ large university, a central office that ~~creates unique internship opportunities~~ focuses specifically as a central point for ~~Wofford~~ students~~. Each year~~, ~~Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil~~faculty, ~~Russia~~alumni, ~~India~~investors, ~~China~~and the industries to come together, ~~and South Africa)~~may not be something that we need per say. Wofford has The ~~Explore program also sends~~ Space which does much of this already. An advantage of being a small school is that all of our students ~~as interns~~ have the opportunity to work with faculty and alumni and to network with potential investors within their respective industries. This isn't to say that we can't improve upon our system with how we are able to build bridges between all of our resources, but instead tailor it to ~~the Aspen Institute~~our specfic size and community at Wofford. </span~~> <br/~~>

= <span style="font-size:~~21px; font~~x-~~family:'Trebuchet MS'~~large; ~~color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~The Center for Innovation and Learning~~Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

Right now, the strongest connection that Wofford College has with industry in the surrounding area is with the Iron Yard. By their description,"The ~~Center~~ Iron Yard exists to create exceptional value for ~~Innovation~~ people and ~~Learning aims to design~~their ideas through code education, ~~develop~~ startup accelerators and coworking spaces." The Iron Yard is a thinktank and ~~integrate resources that enrich learning~~ startup incubator headquartered in Greenville, SC and ~~teaching~~ with its second location in Spartanburg, SC, both of which are very near Wofford's campus. The SPACE at Woffordhas held a number of events in conjunction with the Iron Yard, both on Wofford's campus and on the Iron Yard's campuses. The Iron Yard teaches coding classes to entrepreneurs needing to ~~provide a locus~~ learn the skill, and also provides startup support for ~~conversations~~entrepreneurs looking to get off the ground. Most importantly, ~~both within~~ the Iron Yard serves as a networking hub through which a number of different professionals (programmers, designeers, investors, business managers, event coordinators, etc.) flow. This is most significant to Wofford ~~community and with~~ students because is provides a centralized place for students to look for professional expertise or connections to other ~~institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education~~third parties.

<span style="font-size:~~15px~~medium; ~~font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~Purposeful integration~~ Also of ~~research~~importance is a capital network in South Carolina Angel Network (SCAN). SCAN is "an association of angel groups and early stage investors located across the Palmetto State." SCAN is a significant source of venture capitalist funding throughout South Carolina, ~~curricular innovation~~especially in areas of more extensive business. In January 2015, SCAN launched another sub-network, the Spartanburg Angel Network, which carries out the same purpose of SCAN and its other sub-networks, but is specific to the Spartanburg area. Spartanburg's network was spearheaded by John Bauknight, a local success and business owner (of a restaurant and ~~support~~ brewery in Spartanburg). The ~~Center for Innovation~~ Spartanburg Angel Network is comprised of business owners and ~~Learning~~ investors looking to grow their money through venture capitalism, which is ~~a step toward~~ of great interest to Wofford's entrepreneurs. Some faculty and alumni of Wofford have contacts with John Bauknight, and the ~~academic synthesis~~ Spartanburg Angel Network could potentially be a ~~21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members~~ valuable resource for collaboration and ~~society at large~~partnership.

~~The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning. <span style="font-size:~~15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text~~x-~~decoration:none~~large; ~~vertical-align:baseline~~">The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice Engaging with Regional and ~~to nurture innovation in the classroom.~~Local Development Efforts ~~<span style="font-size:17px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Innovations in Teaching and Learning

== <span style="font-size:~~15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal~~medium; ~~font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.Freshman Serivice Projects ==

<span style="font-size:~~15px~~small; ~~font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~CIL works with faculty who want~~ Wofford College makes it a priorty for freshman students to ~~incorporate technology into~~ particiapte in a class-wide service project in the days before their ~~courses and teaching~~first semester at the college. ~~They established Tools and Toys lunches~~In doing so, ~~which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on~~ they instill in the ~~latest in~~ incoming students the ~~application of technology to teaching~~ notion that Wofford is a tight-knit community and ~~learning~~ focuses largely on service and ~~will continue with six presentations~~giving back to our community. Every year the project is different, ~~three in the fall~~ but has focused on recently on mass packing and ~~three~~ shipping of food packages to countries in ~~the spring of the academic year~~need.

== <span style="font-size:~~17px~~medium; ~~font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~Institutional Research~~ On-Campus Service Organizations and ~~Assessment~~Student Led Projects ==

~~ ~~<span style="font-size:~~15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000~~small; ~~background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline~~">~~The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty~~ Wofford also provides the opportunity for students to ~~assess~~ join service organizations on campus such as APO and Twin Towers. Both organizations focus on varying aspects of the community and have committees geared towards student service in these respective areas. Student led projects also offer the opportunity for ~~improvement~~ service in ~~student learning and teaching effectiveness~~the community. ~~They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students~~Philip Haabib, ~~faculty~~a freshman, ~~alumni and partner~~ has a project in which he works with ~~faculty who wish to present and publish~~ down-on-their-luck citizens in the ~~scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE~~ community and ~~from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with~~ helps push them through classes at a ~~view towards providing faculty~~ community college and ~~departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience~~allows them to find jobs.

[http://www.wofford.edu/CIL/ The Center for Innovation and Learning]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cole_McCarty Cole McCarty]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Arsi Alex Arsi]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Fields Richard Fields]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wofford_College_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://colemccarty.wix.com/wofford-innovation Our Personal Website]

T[http://theironyard.com/ he Iron Yard Website]

[http://www.scangelnetwork.com/spartanburg-angel-network/ The Spartanburg Angel Network]

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