= <span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: MetaBold, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Overview</span> =
<span style="font-size:smallx-large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Office for Access and Success (OAS) announced the </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Innovation and Entrepreneurship Collaborative (IEC). </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">The HBCU Innovation and Entrepreneurship </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Collaborative will be a cohort of 15 HBCUs (both </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">private and public) that are committed to </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">participating in a multi-year collaboration that will </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">foster innovation, commercialization and </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">entrepreneurship on their respective campuses. This </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">collaborative will build off <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">of the momentum that was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">established by the UNCF lead 2013 HBCU Innovation Summit that was held at Stanford University.</span>'''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallx-large;">'''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Virginia State University (VSU) is one of the selected universities that</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"> will have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative community seeking to increase innovation and entrepreneurship across disciplines (i.e., Agriculture, Business, Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, etc.) in order to build an innovation ecosystem among institutions, administrators, faculty and students, the federal government and private industry. This cohort of HBCUs will be able to access current and future funding opportunities that will be available only to those universities that commit to participate in this unique collaborative. </span>'''</span>
= Strategy# 1: Changing the Potential Value on Virginia State University's Campus =