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After ideating, empathizing, and defining this issue, the 2018 University Innovation Fellow cohort at CSUF has vowed to tackle the lack of student engagement on campus utilizing technology. Our team's perspective was derived from a series of conversations with stakeholders including student leaders and higher education executives. From these meetings, we concluded that this underlying issue lies internally within the student and faculty organizations. Lack-luster communication channels, unincentivized call-to-actions, weak social media presence, and inefficient information channels are also concerns that both students, student leaders, and faculty have echoed. Thus, it is our team's objective, or "strategic priority", is to enhance each of these organizational functions for our campus resources by connecting them with technological applications that may provide automation or stronger infrastructure.<br/><br/><span style="font-size:medium;">'''<u>Current Status:</u>'''</span>
Initially, our primary strategic priority did not revolve around student engagement. Instead, we had a goal of incorporating a General Education course about entrepreneurship and design thinking for all majors. However, halfway into our training, we performed a feasability analysis of this previous project alongside a seasoned faculty member. After several long-winded discussions that considered the project's practicality and the team's overall passions, we decided who helped us decide that the project was impractical given our personal time-frame to complete the projectgoals. This resulted in our team scratching the previous project and searching for a new primary strategic priority.
Due to the revision of our primary strategic priority, our progress is currently less than ideal. However, we have now narrowly identified a project in which our team fully shares a passion for. In addition, we have installed better adminstrative systems for accountability and communication to further the project's progression. Currently, our team is in the process of identifying techoological software that will best fit campus organizations' needs and compiling reccomendations that will be discussed amongst team members. To compensate for the slight delay in progress, our cohort has also opted to work over the long-winded holiday break.