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During our training sponsored by Google and the Hasso-Platner Stanford Institute of Design, our team utilized the principles of design thinking to identify the following issue on CSUF's campus: a lack of student engagement. This is in part due to CSUF's reputation as a commuter school, which is garnered from its geographical location as a midpoint between cities. As students fight for parking and adhere to the practice of attending class only to immediately return home afterwards, they forego the various opportunities provided by our campus' numerous resources.
After precisely defining this issue, the 2018 University Innovation Fellow cohort at CSUF has vowed to tackle the lack of student engagement on campus with technology. Our team's approach was derived from a series of conversations with stakeholders including student leaders and higher education executives. These meetings helped us conclude that this underlying issue lies internally within the student and faculty organizations. 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 improve these organizational functions for our campus resources by connecting them with technological applications that may provide automation or stronger infrastructure.
More information can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84L-KViigE here.<br />]
