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Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship and as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers.This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well known opportunites and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

== Tactic #1: Test Pop-Up Courses ==

*Description: Establish Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.**February 20152018***Initial interviews with students regarding their thoughts on I&E at Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMUX-Labs maker space.***Identify faculty members interested in participating in a course like thisWork on gaining feedback through response forms and questionarres. **April 20152018***Discovery and ideation; explore what other schools are doing Expand Pop-Up courses to introduce I&E earlier in their curriculum.  Develop a series of courses in several clusters that could be implemented***Have courses officially created as "test courses" available large capacity for enrollment next semestermore involvement.***Have courses registered across several disciplines, as to attract a variety Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of studentstypical STEM classes.**May 20152018***Begin designing actual ideas Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for course lessons, assuming students sign up for coursesthe Fall semester.

*Description: Start Continiue a four to five week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.*Timeline: TBD6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison.This 'Accelorator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

*Description: Create pamphlets and a brief informational speech about Imedium-scale marketing campaign of the JMU X-Labs.&E opportunities/resources at freshmen year orientation.   == Tactic #4: Residential Learning Community ==nbsp;*DescriptionTools: Establish a Residential Learning Community for Entrepreneurship.  Students who participate in a Residential Learning Community get the unique opportunity to live and take classes with a small group of students who share similar interests. This helps students The following tools will be used to be fully immersed in help spread the topic word of the RLCLabs.**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.  9 of these already exist on campus**On Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and the Entrepreneurship RLC is already in the works through some members of Society of Entrepreneurspost-cards.*Timeline: TBDCan start immediately in Febrauary 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.