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When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.
=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===
A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.
=== Tactic #1 2 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty social events that are not discipline specific === We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to encourage innovation go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and meeting can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of friends ===other events.
=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===
This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.
=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===
Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.
=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===
Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.
=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===
One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.
=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===
Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.