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= William Jewell College Project Pitch Fall 2019  = = Priority 1: Redesigning Curry Hall Exposing Jewell's Student Body to Kansas City's Thriving Startup Space =

Like many small regional institutions in recent years, William Jewell recently hired a new president and her new focus is rebranding William JewellCollege has struggled with dwindling enrollment. RecentlyHowever, she approached our University Innovation Fellows group the student body of the college has maintained its collective penchant for innovation and asked us to rethink a massive space careers in our administration building entrepreneurship.  

We want theorize that connecting students at the college to make this area an extension of Kansas City's nationally recognized startup space will both benefit the Pryor Learning Center (a study building on campus). Refitting it with newer technologies, what the incoming current student body and significantly boost future enrollment by attracting students what to have, interested in opportunities in innovation and what old students feel it needs. We also plan to propose using the vacant area above the floor to extend on the project even moreentrepreneurship. 

<div>''Week''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Ask students, if they would be interested if the campus hosted an "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Career Day"If you could have once a 4th floor of the PLC, what would you want in it?"semester.&nbsp;<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Gain ideas for designing from If students do indeed seem interested, we intend to move forward with approaching the administration about creating an event like the internet and elaborate on them to fill William Jewells campus and communityone mentioned above.<br/>&nbsp;</div><div>''Month''<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Present to the Board administration of the college (President, Provost, Trustees/Administration Team)<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Seek out approval, support, and fundingfor the idea.&nbsp;<br/></div><div style="margin-left: 40px">Receive approval from administrationfaculty.&nbsp;<br/></div><div>''Year''<br/></div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Have Establish an "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Career Day" held on William Jewell's campus once a semester. At this career day, held preferably on a newly renovated Monday, Wednesday, or Friday during Jewell time when students are out of class, we intend to showcase student involvement opportunities in the KC startup community, rising startups in the local startup space, an alumni entrepreneurship council, and furnished extension other related career information. This event would last the whole day with the intention of exposing William Jewell's students to career opportunities, information about both local and national entrepreneurship, and building an important connection between innovation and the Pryor Learning Center in Curry Hall<br/>students at the college.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>= Priority 2: Incorporating Design Teams in the Science/Engineering Departments&nbsp;<br/> =

=Priority 2: Energizing alumni connection network = Taking Initiative<div>== Thesis<br/> ==

Taking initiative on this project will require Solidify a lot of personal relationships. Over the next couple years, students could work alongside professors rather than underneath them in a class. If students come to professors with project ideas, there will be a lot more involvement and passion presence for the projects.Jewell within Kansas City professional atmosphere

If students go to professors with projects, then they will enjoy the work. If they get shadowed during their research and replace themselves, they will feel much more inclined to act in a professional manner and explain their research thoroughly to those who will take their position. This will also allow the research to be continued over the years. We would == <span style="font-size: 12px">What it looks like to get this idea out to students so that projects they're passionate about are integrated into the programs and they will hopefully be able to recruit mentees better to continue to fully develop projects that benefit themselves, professors, and the school.</span><br/> ==

One particular application is building community through teamWhile we do host career mentor programs, a way to broaden the scope of these efforts would see an addition to the curriculum which takes students to Kansas City for learning experiences related to their major-based engineering competitionsspecific fields. The Civil Engineering program My vision for this is for it to include requiring certain class experiences to occur in its first year at William Jewell, and we want the field. This could look like a professor pushing students to seek out answers to encourage interconnectedness among questions within the majors Kansas City area and their peers. We think that giving the Civil Engineers significant involvement will help them generate creating a sense tradition of identity. The Civil Engineering faculty are supportive of these programs and are eager to transition student academic involvement within the group to national affiliation. Our fellows are currently taking a lead role in this developmentprofessional landscape there.&nbsp;

== Tactic 1: Building Relationships<br/> ==<div>Building relationships with leadership and faculty will allow for a means of entry into the faculty communication circle. Reaching out to faculty and attend a faculty meeting to open conversation about how William Jewell College can move from "polydisciplinary" - in which students are simultaneously engaged in many disciplines - to truly "interdiscplinary" - in which faculty and students connect disparate ideas and have investment in programs beyond the department.</div>== Tactic 2: Pitching Interdisciplinary Ideas<br/> ==<div>Communicating between areas of study and departments for the purpose of collaboration will benefit the community by expanding the effects of the liberal arts approach at William Jewell College. Inviting faculty from other departments to lectures, shadow a class, collaborate on curriculum, and share ideas are the objectives of interdepartmental communication. For example, if a class is discussing a subject that relates to that of another discipline, it could be enriching to bring a faculty member from the other department to speak on the subject. Furthermore, if a department had a program that could be of interest to a student outside the major, faculty to faculty communication could facilitate communicating this program to their students.</div><div><br/></div>== Tactic 3: Unifying Silos<br/> ==<div>As students have expressed, they feel comfortable communicating with faculty in their own discipline, but are hesitant to contact those who are not in their disciple. Breaking down silos that block communication could aid in encouraging students talking to faculty in other disciplines. As William Jewell is a liberal arts institution, it is a goal of the college to create well rounded individuals who value critical thinking. This goal can be facilitated through accessibility to the whole faculty, not just those in one'''Difference'''s department.</div>

= Priority 4: Effective Campus Communication =<div><span style="font-size:13small">William Jewell College is a small campus with just 1100 students.333333333333332pxCombined with centralized campus "heartbeats" like our digital library and student union, Jewell is a place in which one feels as if they are always plugged in to campus community. Ironically, Jewell campus initiatives have had a profoundly difficult time relaying information and motivating the student body to attend events. This, combined with the small size of the college, can produce lackluster engagement at events. In short, serendipity and word of mouth are both relied upon and coming up short when it comes to campus communications.</span></div>== The Problem ==<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7492f0f-dc1e-7346-7c57-add4508b7f2d"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000rgb(51, 51, 51); backgroundvertical-coloralign:transparentbaseline; fontwhite-weightspace:400pre-wrap">One of main problems that we identified as a we completed our landscape canvas was the &nbsp; problem of communication between the students and the administration. Often student would be frustrated by the lack of response and ability to communicate to the college administration. There’s no clear way for student to express their concerns and suggest change.</span></span></div>== The Idea ==<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7492f0f-dc1e-7346-7c57-add4508b7f2d"><span style="font-stylesize:normal14px; font-variantfamily:normalArial; text-decorationcolor:nonergb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A blog In brainstorming ideas we found ([http:several ideas that would provide a small bandaid to the larger problem but the idea we believe to be the solution a comprehensive website that allows students to ask questions and get answers. In addition to the website a committee would be formed to address the submissions. This committee would be made up of students faculty and administration, every semester the committee would hold a public forum in which students could ask for the reasoning behind different responses. The website will provide students a public medium to interact with the administration while working with the average Jewell students busy schedule. The format will allow students to submit questions and comments anonymously or with their name attached, while students can upvote submissions they relate to.</span></span></div><div><br/></blog.invisionapp.comdiv></howdiv> = <span style="font-size:x-tolarge"><span><span style="font-designfamily: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-youralign: baseline; white-designspace: pre-teamwrap">Priority 5: Expanding Technology Resources</ http:span></span></span><br/blog> =<div><span style="font-size:small">A problem that we identified on our campus is the lacking usability of existing technology coupled with the inability of students to access and learn about our resources.invisionapp.comWhile our campus has </howspan><span style="font-tosize:small" class="gr-designprogress">embraces</span><span style="font-yoursize:small">21</span><span style="font-designsize:small">^st</span><span style="font-teamsize:small"><span>century</]) laid out how span></span><span style="font-size:small">technology, there is a business design team runs: disconnect between those resources and students’ knowledge. In some places, there is the small group no explanation on how to use various forms of directors, below them are the senior designerstechnology, and in the lowest section are the junior designers </span><span style="font-size:small"><span>others</span></span><span style="font-size:small">that are newest to the team. We thought we could redevelop this plan in terms of a science design timeinformation is poorly communicated. We decided to do tackle this in more of problem by implements a ladder format rather than a pyramid. At three-phase project that emphasizes the top usability of the ladder is the mentor/professor that leads the team and provides the tasks existing resources, creates access to useful information, then once these are available will make it useful by hosting Pop-Up classes on both tech and goals of the groupsoftware. The mentor brings in someone who they believe would benefit This was students can learn to create useful products on their team and teaches them own without the tasks while making them aware need of the goalsan academic class. The experienced researcher flexibility of this will then be heavily involved in teaching the newest researcher the ropes. Overtime, this would become appeal to a cycle as seniors graduate, juniors and sophomores ascend up large portion of the ladder, and freshmen fill empty positions. There are many benefits student body who wish to our prototype differentiate themselves in the vocational market with projects such as continuous innovation to the research being doneinteractive resumes, video editing, practicing team-buildingweb creation, and learning through teachingother creative suites.</span></div><div><br/></div>== Phase 1: Infrastructure Improvements == ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cards with instructions next to tech ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Updated availability of &nbsp;tech in library · &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Increased Ellucian Go capabilities &nbsp; ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Posters displaying available tech

= Priority 3: Creating a College of the 21st and 22nd Century·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; =<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Kansas City currently has some of the fastest internet in the United States. Thanks to Google Fiber and excellent city planning the high-tech industry in the KC areas has been rapidly expanding in recent years. Recent developments on the William Jewell campus and points of pride for the college are also focused on tech utility. In fall of 2013 the college opened its Pryor Learning Commons, a bookless library and collaborative space for its students and faculty. In 2014 it unveiled its Jewellverse initiative which vastly improved the college's wifi capabilities and equipped every student and faculty member with an iPad. The college's 24/7 innovation suites contain a free-to-use 3D-printer and digital media editing suites. The recent trend in the campus environment has been to be as tech savy as possible, yet with all of this technology being used on campus the only degree program in technology is the school's recently added interactive digital media degree.&nbsp;More Apple TVs around campus

·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Interviews with faculty, alumni, and students have shown that interest is high in the Jewell communiy for an increase in availability of computer science courses. Similarly, businesses such as Cerner are hard pressed to find locally-grown computer scientists. It is with this information that the 2015 Fall cohort is proposing a route to increase the presence of computer science courses on the William Jewell campus while simultaneously connecting William Jewell students to the best universities in the world. &nbsp;&nbsp;Peripheral adapters to increase usability

·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; One of the many computer science courses offered on edx.org is Harvard's famed CS50 which immerses students in different programming languages. Our goal is to create a system in which students can enroll in the certificate verified CS50 course and complete the graded course to receive P/F credit. The ideal program would send a professor and student to Harvard over the upcoming summer to take part in the CS50 education course through the Harvard Extension school and a single student every summer thereafter. The course would be structured as a tutorial style class, students watching the lectures and beginning their coursework outside of class and meeting twice a week to collaborate on their projects. At the the end of the semester the group would complete a project to improve campus.&nbsp;Reserve rooms around campus through online form

·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Upon successful implementation of phase 1 the program would increase the accredited-courses offered at Jewell through CS50. Programs like R and statistic for hard sciences and Ruby for beginners. If phase 1 went exceptionately well, it would be possible to include non-computer science classes to increase the diversity of courses offered at Jewell.&nbsp;Voluntary classes that partner with existing classes

=== Phase 3 ===</div>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Upon the completion of phases 1 and 2 and the culture of computer science has increased on Jewell's campus a degree program in computer science will be created. By offering a degree in computer science the college will enhance its position on the midwest and national stage and produce talented graduates with skill sets that fill the computer science needs of companies in the Kansas City area and beyond.&nbsp;Multiple sessions over both technology and software use

'''Fellows''' [[Jack Still|Jack Still]] [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]]  [[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]]

<div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt;"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt;">'''Spring 2017 Fellows: '''[[Meg Anderson|Megan Anderson]], [[Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe|Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]], [[Conner Foote|Conner Foote]], [[William Hyde|William Hyde]], [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]], [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]], [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]], [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]]<br/></div>&lt;/div&gt;