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= <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">'''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">OVERVIEW</span>'''</span></span> Project Pitch Video =

<span style="colorhttps:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse College was founded on the radical idea that young women deserved a space, designed for them, to pursue higher education. Since that first year, Converse has continued to help those women find their voice, understand their true value, and refine their vision. &nbsp;As times change, however, so must we. How might we continue to adapt converse’s founding principles in order to serve a new generation of women?</span></span><youtu.be/span>ryI_oSt2uKc

<span style="color:#000000;"><span styleOverview ="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">We, as students, are entering a post-grad landscape far different than that of our predecessors. Steeped in technology, and connected on a massive, global scale, the tools we need to be successful in the world outside Converse’s campus are ever-changing. It is time for us to foster an innovative, creative ecosystem where failure is nothing but a starting and learning point, and problems are nothing but opportunities.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

<span style="font-sizecolor:large#000000;"><span style="colorfont-size:#000000medium;">'''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">PRIORITY ONE: SPARK STUDENT INTERESTConverse College was founded on the radical idea that young women deserved a space designed for them to pursue higher education. Since that first year, Converse has continued to help women find their voice, understand their true value, and pursue their vision. &nbsp;As times change, however, so must we. How might we continue to adapt Converse’s founding principles in order to serve a new generation of women?</span>'''</span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse has We, as students, are entering a longstanding tradition post-graduation landscape far different than that of self-governanceour predecessors. A large portion of her students hold leadership positions Steeped in technology and connected on campusa global scale, and Converse itself is student-regulated, adhering the tools we need to a traditional honor code. The student body is an​ active one, fully involved be successful in the creation and ideation of Converse's futureworld outside Converse’s campus are ever-changing.&nbsp;In any given yearIt is time for us to foster an innovative, students plan fundraisers to help crisis centers creative ecosystem where failure is nothing but a starting and cancer research institutes, organize trips to serve all over the United Stateslearning point, perform institutional research, and design new and exciting clubs to promote student involvementproblems are nothing but opportunities. Converse students aren't uninterested&nbsp; they simply need to be shown the value.</span></span></span>

= Priority 1: Increase awareness of the Social Entrepreneurship minor by adding courses that will spark student interest =<div><br/></div><span styleid="color:#000000;docs-internal-guid-a39d6f75-7fff-ad81-49d4-08889eceafc7"><span style="font-size:medium11pt;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Despite their passionate involvement on campus and off campus, most Converse The Social Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary minor that caters to all majors to students simply aren't aware of entrepreneurship and innovation on any scale. Those who are aware of it are intimidated; they equate entrepreneurship with Fortune 500 companies interested in learning how to create and their firm belief maintain social enterprises in their inability order to succeedcontribute to society. Converse's most popular majors are educationThe courses offered include general business classes, marketing, economics, english, psychology, philosophy, visual and performing artstheatre, but most of the humanitiescourses are heavily business based. Due to this reason, and social sciencesmany students do not realize that the minor exists. All fields Other students simply are integrated. Therefore, not motivated to start or complete the minor because there is an imminent need for are not any courses that&nbsp; guide students in ALL majors to be well acquainted with define social problems and experienced in entrepreneurial, innovative, and collaborative culturedesign different approaches to solutions.&nbsp;</span></span><div><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potential Courses that can be added</span></span>

<span styleid="color:#000000;docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size:medium11pt;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Priority one speaks Diverse Training: Fighting Hate & Bias and Social Justice are two topics that conveniently overlap. This course is different from courses already offered due to the nature of information and topics that processwould be discussed and the interdisciplinary aspect. Entrepreneurship This course would involve between 2-5 professors who teach History, Politics, Women’s Studies, Economics, and InnovationPhilosophy. Topics that would be taught include analyzing underrepresented groups, in this caseexploring and analyzing different forms of hate and bias and how they occur, are not about venture creationdiscuss variations of how to achieve equality, maker spaceslearn how to combat hate and bias inside and outside the workplace, and completing a group or new engineering departments. They are class campaign about the tools and skills an entrepreneur learns a specific social issue agreed upon that can be applied to every career path once out of will take place in Converse's wallsfor 1 day- 1 week. This process </span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking would explore what design thinking is about speaking to by analyzing case study examples. There will be activities conducted in the interests beginning of our student body, classes in order to ignite curiosity and introducing them creativity in order to skills and themes free the mindset of limited possibilities. There will also be a project that can help them would take place in all small groups or as a class effort to showcase what design thinking is and to spark interest to Converse students from various disciplines.</span></span><div><br/></spandiv></div>

'''<span style="colorPriority 2:#000000;"><span style="fontCreating a student council to be the liaison between students and the President regarding the Strategic Plan and its progress from 2018-size:medium;"><span style2023. ="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">INDUCTING AN I&E ORGANIZATION WITHIN SGA</span></span></span>'''

<span styleid="color:#000000;docs-internal-guid-e6c539b3-7fff-12bc-7ba5-e0acf300a52d"><span style="font-size:medium11pt;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">SGA organizations have tremendous exposure Converse’s strategic Plan was created around the framework in our mission and support on campuscore values. Inducting a student led I&E organization through Three themes serve as the SGA well enable pillar for the UIF Fellow and other leaders within the organization to host speakersplan: Vibrant Community, buy suppliesAcademic Excellence, run advertising campaigns, pay for field trips to regional accelerators, organize business pitch competitions etcand Sustainable Future. The plan was developed in order 2018 and the next steps are research to help students discover I&E. Once the UIF Fellow graduatesdevelop actionable plans, budgets, the organization will remain and continue to prosper with new leadershiptimelines. Students need a cohesive outlet for their leadership in I&E.</span>nbsp;</span></span>

<span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-e6c539b3-7fff-12bc-7ba5-size:large;e0acf300a52d"><span style="colorfont-size:#00000011pt;">'''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-serifnumeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRIORITY TWO: ESTABLISH A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONVERSE UIF INITIATIVES AND CONVERSE CURRICULAHaving a student council as a liaison between the President and the students will make it easier to communicate student needs and to test the effectiveness of what is being implemented. The SGA President will begin the process of creating the council. The president will report back to PCO (President of Clubs and Organizations) to begin the form of communication. The students that have been chosen are valuable leaders on campus from diverse backgrounds and are dedicated to working diligently to continue the plan evaluation and implementation until its completion in 2023.&nbsp;</span>'''</span></span>

'''<span style="colorPriority 3:#000000Increase awareness of the Social Entrepreneurship minor by adding courses that will spark student interest =<div><div>The Social Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary minor that caters to all majors to students who are interested in learning how to create and maintain social enterprises in order to contribute to society. The courses offered include general business classes, marketing, economics, english, psychology, philosophy, and theatre, but most of the courses are heavily business based. Due to this reason, many students do not realize that the minor exists. Other students simply are not motivated to start or complete the minor because there are not any courses that&nbsp; guide students to define social problems and design different approaches to solutions. Before adding additional courses that are not offered, the minor will be enhanced by changing the course requirements.&nbsp;"</div><div><br/></div><div>Potential Courses that can be added<span style="font-size:medium;"/div><span style="fontdiv>Diverse Training: Fighting Hate & Bias and Social Justice are two topics that conveniently overlap. This course is different from courses already offered due to the nature of information and topics that would be discussed and the interdisciplinary aspect. This course would involve between 2-family:tahoma5 professors who teach History, Politics, Women’s Studies, Economics, and Philosophy. Topics that would be taught include analyzing underrepresented groups, exploring and analyzing different forms of hate and bias and how they occur, discuss variations of how to achieve equality,genevalearn how to combat hate and bias inside and outside the workplace,sansand completing a group or class campaign about a specific social issue agreed upon that will take place in Converse for 1 day-serif;"1 week</div><div><br/></div><div>EXTRA CREDIT FOR ATTENDING I&E EVENTS ONDesign Thinking would explore what design thinking is by analyzing case study examples. There will be activities conducted in the beginning of classes in order to ignite curiosity and creativity in order to free the mindset of limited possibilities. There will also be a project that would take place in small groups or as a class effort to showcase what design thinking is and to spark interest to Converse students from various disciplines.</OFF CAMPUSdiv><div><br/span></spandiv></spandiv>'''

<span style="colorPriority 4:#000000;"Increase student’s networking abilities and entrepreneurial skills by offering more internship and job opportunities through the college. =<div><span style="font-size:medium;"div><span style="font-family:tahomadiv>In this class,genevaprofessors at Converse would connect students with local businesses,sans-serifwith which partnerships with the college would be made.&nbsp;">Securing faculty and staff members’ approval for extra credit opportunities will provide great incentive This class would allow students to learn how to reach out to students. They will take up extra credit opportunities, venture outside their comfort zonebusinesses, along with getting the hands on experience and return networking experience with companies throughout the school year. Students would have the opportunity to their intern with a company for a semester, volunteer at events on campus culture , have an entry level position with a conviction company, and much more. This would allow students to learn network more with the community, and do morepossibly find future job opportunities after college.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></spandiv></spandiv></spandiv>

'''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">I&E COMPONENT TO CONVOCATION SERIES</span></span></span>''' <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Students are required to attend a number of events in different categories every semester in order to develop all aspects of the human spirit. These events span everything from art installations to resume building workshops.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">This component is related to the extra credit proposal above, in that both avenues provide ways to learn more about technology, communication, and creativity outside the traditional spaces of learning.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">'''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">PRIORITY THREE: CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL STUDENTS TO BE ENGAGED WITH I&E</span>'''</span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Once students are aware of I&E on a grander scale, they can start building the skills necessary to be successful. This priority section focuses primarily on building the skills of Innovation and Entrepreneurship applicable to all disciplines.</span></span></span> <br/><span style="color:#000000;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">LEADERSHIP RETREAT TRAINING</span></span>'''</span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">A large portion of Converse's student body holds a leadership position on campus. One a year, these students converge in a multiple day leadership retreat, where they learn the basics of heading the coalitions and student boards they will be taking part in the entire school year. These students are go-getters- they have run for office, started organizations, or serve as extensions of student life.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">During this retreat, the principles of design thinking could be taught through placing students in small groups and asking them to tackle a problem creatively. They can move from rapidly brainstorming solutions to presenting their day’s work. This process will strengthen their ability to work in high stress situations, communicate with an interdisciplinary group, quickly prototype and roll out potential solutions, and learn from failures. Use of this model rather than preaching the tenets of leadership would be a fast paced way to get these students immersed in I&E culture while also learning tangible skills that will aid them throughout the school year.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;">PRIORITY FOUR: INCREASE COMMUNITY-CONVERSE PARTNERSHIPS</span>&nbsp;'''</span></span></span> '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">UIF FELLOWS COALITION</span></span></span>'''

= <span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium15px;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-wrap; background-serifcolor: transparent;">One of Converse’s largest and mostly untapped advantages is its location in proximity to Wofford College, another UIF school. Regional UIF universities with more developed I&E ecosystems include Furman and Clemson.Related Links</span><br/span></span>=

'''<span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium15px;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-wrap; background-serifcolor: transparent;">In planning regional events with colleges like Wofford, Clemson, and Furman, and directing students to resources that Converse may not be able to produce on its own, students will be able to interact with and learn from campus communities right outside their window.</span></span>College</span>'''

'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-sizefamily:largeArial;"><span style="colorfont-size:#00000015px;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-serifwrap;">'''PRIORITY FIVEbackground-color: CREATE PIPELINE FOR I&E STUDENTS&nbsptransparent;&nbsp;'''</span></span">Converse College Student Priorities</span>'''

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University Innovation Fellow '15&nbsp;[[Nadia GathersSanuja Goonetilleke|Nadia_GathersSanuja Goonetiieke]]

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