Changes

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the issues we've discovered in our research of Pepperdine's campus is the lack of community and alumni engagement due to the nature of Pepperdine's geographic location. &nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Malibu is a very isolated part of Los Angeles county so students often do not tap into the expansive alumni network that is available to them. This is likely due to the lack of knowledge of such resources. Further, the connection to alumni that we do have is quite silo'd between the schools. Our goal will be to integrate and make more visible the amazing alumni network that Pepperdine has to offer so that students can benefit from those currently in the field.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e01deda-e2f9-5d84-87de-38861605f7a3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Possible Project: One of the best ways to increase community engagement is to appeal to an individual's competitive spirit. We would like to propose a Student/Faculty/Alumni intramural sports league <span id="docs-internal-guid-501c2e85-e2fb-e3ee-118a-8602ba0ea13b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">where upon undergraduates, masters students, faculty, and alumni can engage in low-stakes competitive sports.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The event could be held in a central location of Los Angeles to encourage more alumni to come during their weekends.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Prototype</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">: &nbsp;We created an official email and survey to send to students, faculty, and alumni to gauge interest and suggestions for the league. &nbsp;We also discussed the idea with students to great response.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Requirements</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">: funding for food, reservation of space and sports equipment</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e01deda-e2f9-5d84-87de-38861605f7a3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Reflections on this Prototype</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">: &nbsp;After gauging student interest in this idea, we found that many students were unaware of the vast Pepperdine alumni network in Los Angeles. &nbsp;There are quite a few movers and shakers in the Entertainment industry who have come out of Pepperdine that would love to give back to their alma mater and guide students in any way possible. &nbsp;Once this was realized, students were incredibly excited to engage in our league. &nbsp;The verdict is still out on what kind of alumni interest we would have. &nbsp;We would need to be very deliberate in how we crafted this so as to make it easy for busy alumni to attend. &nbsp;Organization will be key.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Possible Dates:</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sign ups during orientaition week of respective schools (Between August 15th-31st of 2017)</span></span>

<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seasons start in September with possible championships in early November.</span></span>

<span style="text-indent: 48px;">To begin, we looked at Pepperdine's exisiting undergraduate film programs, Film Studies and Media Production, and pulled all the courses with we thought were beneficial to film students. Next, we looked at the MFA Film Program, and added courses that we thought were essential to an undergraduate's education. Afterwards, we perused through course catalogs for the business and law schools. We were able to find invaluable courses in entertainment law/intellectual property from the law school. The business schoolis currently working on creating their own entertainment program, unfortunately, doesn't offer many promising from which we are planning to pull relevant courses for film students...yetonce the course list is made available to us.&nbsp;</span>

  == '''Orientation Changes Agenda''' == <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brainstorming: </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orientation is the first official event that every student who comes to Pepperdine is required to attend. It lays the premises of the student life and the academic pathway the student should expect during his program,hence making it very important for the student. With that, we realised that it would make things much simpler and easier if the orientation process provides more knowledge and if its more detailed about the curriculum and everything what a student must expect from Pepperdine. Specially for the International Students it is lot more difficult if the orientation is not well informed, since they are coming to a completely different study environment as well as to a different Country. It is important for the School administration to communicate clear school agendas and how their academic years are going to look like. At Pepperdine we believe that if the students are guided about the curriculum more in detail it will help a lot. Campus tour of the entire University is a must.</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318- Charchil 625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototype</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: We created a pilot recruitment process for Incoming students at B-School for Fall intake students, ensuring their SMOOTH arrival in the United States and at Pepperdine.</span></span>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318-625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facilitating the convenience of the students was the prime objective and making their arrival hassle free.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318-625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reflections</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Our reflections coming from the prototype and what we wanted to achieve, we thought of assigning mentors to each incoming student who would be the first resource for the individual incoming student and provide information regarding not only the curriculum but also regarding issues like renting an apartment, opening a bank account (for international students), etc. Further, we made groups according to the countries, considering they would know preferences of the students coming from the same home country and would make their stay better. We decided to go all the way from Airport pickups to hosting them for few days until they find their apartment and are well settled. Apart from that we also provided with a good landscape canvas of Pepperdine University, providing awareness regarding how school systems function from the education perspective as well as from the administrative viewpoint. These steps would make the arrival of every incoming student extremely simple. We beleive how you welcome the student is very important and First Impression is the Last Impression; with this such a well facilitated orientation process will create a positive mind-set to the students and give a good kick-off to their education path ahead which eventually will help them excel in their studies.</span></span>

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