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= <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse College]</span></span></span> =
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Converse College is an all-women’s liberal arts college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Converse College continues to adhere to its founder's ideals, seeking to inspire "voice, value, and vision" in its students. It has received press in past years for lowering its tuition by 43 percent. In 2014, it ranked 2322nd<sup>rd </sup>among Regional University South’s college rankings.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">At the end In 2017 a new Quality Enhancement Plan was launched with several goals in mind. The purpose of the 2014/2015 academic year, Converse initiated many progressive changes QEP is to its curriculum intergrate existing and culture under new initiatives into the umbrella "LEAD" Action PlanGeneral Education Program requirements in order to broaden perspectives in real world areans through diverse experiences. The LEAD Plan (Learning, Enrollment, AccessQEP also sponsors visiting speakers, film screenings and Activation) at Converse College includes the addition of programs, certificatesworkshops to expose students to different cultures, backgrounds and centers in a variety of disciplines, an experiential learning graduation requirement identities. It will also provide oppurtunities for all majors, internship and the "Creativity that Works" plan in the School of the Artsstudy abroad programs for students to learn about different cultures. Converse College also has a strong presence in the Spartanburg community for service and service learning. This January, Converse had the highest participation rate in Spartanburg, SC, for students actively involved in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.</span></span></span>
== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span>''' ==
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">For what Converse lacks in engineering and technology programs and resources, it makes up with student passion and initiative. Students are encouraged by faculty, staff, and campus leaders to participate in innovative activities, provide solutions for campus-wide problems, and create programs or organizations to tackle them. There is no formalized problem solving or venture creation process, but some channels students can access when looking to implement solutions or open dialogue are the individual academic departments, the Center for Professional Development, the Office of Student Life, the Center for Leadership and Service, the President's Office, and the Student Government Association (SGA).</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">A significant portion of the student body is actively involved in the SGA.However, there is Converse College Radio</span></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, a new venture this year0, has been notably entrepreneurial from its inception. At present0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;there is ">no SGA organization that caters to the specifically entrepreneurial needs of the students. There has established certifications such as the Music Business and Technology Certificate, Performance Certificate for Non-Performance Music Majors, and the Business Professionalism Certificate Program, all of which require students to take an array of courses across one or more disciplines. </span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">The college and its faculty and staff encourage student innovation and entrepreneurship through the Social Entrepreneurship minor, SCICU grant applications, SGA funding, and Student Excellence funding by the Office of the Provost and Associate Provost.</span></span>
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== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span>''' ==
== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span></span>''' ==
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Campus Technology provides students with the necessary resources to start student ventures on campus. Converse currently has no formalized function to financially support student ventures on campus. Students looking for financial venture support should look to outside sources of information, like the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, communicating their need and vision to various donors, partnering with local businesses companies like The Iron YardMilliken, or with like-minded students on campus to start an initiative for a project or business idea. Support is available through many sources, but the majority of students do not seek it. </span></span></span>
== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span></span>''' ==
== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts</span></span></span>''' ==
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">As an Algernon Sydney Sullivan school, Converse has a longstanding tradition of service to others. In recent years, this focus has continued to develop to an academic and experiential focus on social entrepreneurship. A select number of courses are dedicated to Social Entrepreneurship’s applications in the surrounding community and worldwide. Particularly interested individuals can choose to attend the Sullivan Social Enterprise retreat in the fall or spring sessions. Converse However, the social entrepreneurship minor has also sent not been able to form a team to the foundation’s social venture competitionseparate entity with courses and professors from different disciplines. Converse continues to increase its Social entrepreneurship offeringsCurrently, from the minor requires courses and seminars to exploratory learning tripsthat most business majors have already taken. </span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There is a strong need for concretized partnerships between Converse and its neighboring colleges (Wofford, USC etc.) as well as Spartanburg area businesses. Because of Converse's long -standing commitment to service, there is much that could be done between college-community partnerships that could aid the development of Spartanburg as a whole. </span></span></span>
== '''<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Future</span></span></span>''' ==
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">In 2014, Converse funded its first university University Innovation Fellow, Nadia Gathers. In 2019, Converse funded three University Innovation Fellows, Aliyah Hancock, Jhazmin Gomez-Reyes and Marisa Daquil-Kawabe. Funding this program has put Converse’s dedication to constant growth and institution-wide innovation at the forefront. It joins other upstate SC universities in the program, including Wofford, Clemson, and Furman.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Converse currently offers extensive programs in skills such as leadership, managerial processes, and others necessary to build a successful repertoire outside of college or university. It also provides multiple opportunities for students to conduct individualized institutional researchand experimential learning.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Among the news initiatives that will all be in effect by the end of the 20162019/2017 2020 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">academic year are the Business Professional Development Certificate (Economics, Business, and Accounting), the Digital Arts Certificate (English, Graphic Design, and Computer Science), and the Vocational and Career Development Curricular Integration Plan in the School of the Arts (Art & Design, Theater and Musical Theater, School of Music, and Dance). Programs such as these, and the attitudes they instill in campus culture, will propel the college forward. </span></span></span>
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Converse College Project Pitch: [https://youtu.be/ryI_oSt2uKc] 2019
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cd6s6FWAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cd6s6FWAI] 2016
University Innovation Fellows
Fall 2019
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Aliyah_Hancock Aliyah Hancock]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jhazmin_Gomez_Reyes Jhazmin] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jhazmin_Gomez_Reyes Gomez Reyes]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marisa_Kawabe Marisa Kawabe]
Spring 2016:
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[[Nadia Gathers|Nadia Gathers]]
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