Changes

     William Jewell is rapidly growing its Creativity and Innovation program and other campus-wide efforts, to the degree that the word "entrepreneurship," "innovation," and "creativity" find themselves at the UI Fellows aim to catalyze center of nearly every new project and initative. The University Innovation fellows welcome this furtherenvironment, increasing student engagement but currently find ourselves grounding campus projects and expanding available resourcesinitiatives into doable, process based creativity. Jewell has collected data from While we encourage "thinking big," we consider it equally important to consider the multi-stepped, process-based origin of true creative work. Projects that include faculty and student interviews about innovationrecognition, entrepreneurshipcentralized data regarding campus activities, and engagement over better communications mechanisms for campus leaders all include big goals--yet we continue to seek first iterations of these projects to use as prototypes to better evaluate the underlying need of the last yearinitiatives at hand. From there, we intend to garner the immediate success of various initiatives into the energy and this content area will eventually summarize those data along with that collected by the Leadership Circlesupport needed to reach their fullest conceptions.

     In line with this goal, Jewell has collected data from faculty and student interviews about innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement over the last year, and this content area will eventually summarize those data along with that collected by the Leadership Circle. Some of the ways Jewell has utilized the collected data is the creation of the college's first ever engineering program, which it is in the midst of now. In the fall of 2016 William Jewell College will be welcoming its first ever class of civil engineers. The program will have an environmental emphasis and focus on four technical areas: environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic and structural. The addition of this department will certainly add to the innovation and entrepreneruship on Jewell's campus.