= <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> =
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susquehanna University has entrepreneurship and innovation opportunities for students and experienced and helpful professors. Students are able to learn from professors through their class lessons and succeed outside the classroom with their own ventures and research. The Sigmund Weis School of business has an entrepreneurship and innovation minor. Additionally, Susquehanna has recently started a partnership with Columbia University for a combined degree program in liberal arts and Science education and Engineering. Interested students will be able to obtain two bachelors degrees in just five years.</span></span></p>
== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student</span></span> ==<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''''Spring 2015:'''''Susquehanna is growing in opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation. The university has recently established an Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor to replace the business administration entrepreneurship emphasis. Students hoping to create their own organizations or campus publications will quickly learn about the faculty and staff’s willingness to give advice and guidance to help turn their ideas into realities. Last year, the university ran a Pitch Contest and saw students from various backgrounds and departments bring forth ideas for innovation and creativity. According to a student who is currently a Business Entrepreneurship major, “the business department gives us the tools that are needed to become successful and creative entrepreneurs.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"u>Pitch Contest</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"u>: The Pitch Contest was organized to “help students gain experience in developing and presenting ideas for innovation.” Alumni served as the judges of the event and were able to share their own experiences while building connections between current students and alumni for a greater network. The event helped to inspire ideas as well as showing students how to improve their ideas for the future. Two minutes to describe your idea and convince the judges of its merit made the Pitch Contest very interesting and intense. Elevator pitches do not have fancy presentations with powerpoints and posters; they have simplicity, the product and the presenter. Students learned an important aspect of the business world through these quick pitches as they learned to sell their product and learn from the judges comments as well as their fellow classmates.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"> '''''<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fall 2016:</span></font>'''''<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regarding the Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor, we would like to add that faculty currently</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">teaching currentlyteaching entrepreneurship classes are striving to enroll students from all different disciplines. The Pitch Contest has not been held since the aforementioned one, in the spring of 2014, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">but we are hoping to work with the business school, alumni relations and the career development center to reinstate the Pitch Contest by spring of 2018.</span></p>
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