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<span style="font-size:medium;">Ohio Northern University is an independent university located in Ada, Ohio. The school has 3,108 students representing 34 states and 26 countries. A trait unique to ONU is the “one to one” relationship between students and professors. The reputation for ONU’s strong bond between the student body and the professors is attributed to the 11:1 student/faculty ratio. Ohio Northern University strives to provide students with the best faculty which is why 83% of ONU’s full time faculty have Ph.D. or terminal degrees. ONU is nationally ranked for the sciences, arts, and professional programs in the following colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Pharmacy and Law. It has led to an astounding 94% placement rate within six months after graduation in all colleges.</span>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ohio Northern University’s core values include: collaboration, community, diversity, excellence, faith, integrity, and service. ONU strives to be a unique educational institution that cultivates academic excellence at the undergraduate level. Each of Northern’s colleges promote undergraduate research and experiential learning. The T.J. Smull College of Engineering implements experiential, hands-on learning through the small class sizes. Their mission statement is “to engage students through personal relationships and high-impact educational experiences to maximize their success”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">ONU 2021 is Northern’s strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees to further Northern’s momentum of success. The plan demonstrates ONU’s strategic direction and focus on goals to be improved upon or accomplished by 2021. The strategic goals and priorities seek to advance ONU at all levels and are as follows:</span></p>

*<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Enhance excellence and distinctiveness of the university’s academic programs</span></div>

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<span style="font-size: medium;">ONU seeks to implement opportunities for both new and existing academic program growth. The most recent academic program growth is the recently added entrepreneurship program. The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration offers numerous courses that encourage the learning and application of innovation and entrepreneurship, opening the opportunity for the program to offer an entrepreneurship minor for any major, as well as, an engineering entrepreneurship for engineering majors.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">ONU is a member of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network.&nbsp;<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">KEEN is a true collective effort of universities that are focused on preparing students to be entrepreneurial and innovative in engineering and technology.&nbsp; The KEEN Network provides Ohio Northern University grants which are used to sponsor events like the KEEN Challenge and the Polar Elevator Pitch competition, as well as, the entrepreneurship program.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Northern’s new entrepreneurship program offers a plethora of opportunities for students of all majors to study, as well as, participate in spurring innovation and creativity beginning on-campus and continuing through to the professional level. ONU recently hired an Industry Liaison through the KEEN grant to foster entrepreneurship and innovation campus wide.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium;">[http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509 http://www.onu.edu/academics/college_of_arts_and_sciences/62509]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">One of the key causes for Northern’s reputation for excellence stems from their focus as a school to encourage research and collaboration with professors at an undergraduate level. ONU believes strongly in undergraduate research as the foundation for future success. The undergraduate research and collaboration with professors, spurs innovation. As of recently, with the establishing of the entrepreneurship program by Dr. Tammy Schakett, and the Polar Elevator Pitch competition, students now have the opportunity to discover and practice innovation and entrepreneurship as catalytic pairs.</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://www.onu.edu/node/62877 http://www.onu.edu/node/62877]</span>

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University Innovation Fellows

[[Jared Emerson|Jared Emerson]]

[[Cheyenne Raker|Cheyenne Raker]]

[[Adam Berry|Adam Berry]]

[[Jonathan Szczerba|Jonathan Szczerba]]

[[Alexandra Seda|Alexandra Seda]]

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