Changes

<span style="font-size:medium;">Before there any steps are taken towards creating a new living learning community, there needs to be a purpose or measurable goal in place to steer the progress of the community in the right direction. At Colorado School of Mines their there was a growing desire from successful alumni to expand and improve the Entrepreneurial programs on campus. This encouragement started the ball rolling to look into potential solutions and ways to improve. As a traditionally military focused school, there was little need desire or ability for students to start up businesses after college. However, now with increasing civilian numbers, demand is growing. Additional reasearch research from faculty showed that a living learning community introducing entrepreneurialism could be a desirable addition to the class offerings. From the expressed interest of graduated alumni, the opinion of current students was able to identified. Now, a living learning community could be developed to suit their and the university's needs.</span>

=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#008080">Curriculum</span><br/span><br/span> ===

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#008080">The living learning community Living Learning Community content represented in this newly minted class needs to reflect the purpose for which it was created. For Colorado School of Mines, this meant modeling the living learning community Living Learning Community after the popular business pitch T.V TV show SharktankShark Tank. Students spend the majority of their semester researching a topic and creating a business plan around it. At the end of the living learning community, their final grade is determined by a panel of judges evaluating the progress and quality of their proposed startup.</span></span>