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From there [[File:Create.jpg|thumb]]   == STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1. Provide opportunity for student-led innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship experience <span style="color:#ff0000;">through POP-UP classes!</span> == ''Goal 1: Introduce innovation and entrepreneurship concepts by developing Pop-Up classes during a time when most students can make low prototypes are available.'' Objectives for <span style="color:#ff0000;">Fall 2015</span>: a. Identify a day and design ways time many students are free to solve those problems participate in extracurriculars! b. Identify the best location for these classes that will allow the most space for work.&nbsp; c. Develop course strategies. Including all possible ideas and topics for those who are committed to furthering their ideathe classes, they will have access and take up surveys of what students may want to resources learn. Collaborate with fellows from other universities for help with planning and strategies. d. Use Enactus in donations and SGA donation for our first class. e. This course content, if necessary, must be approved by the appropriate authorities (i.e., deans, provost, and/or university academic council) (Fall 2014- Spring 2015). f. Evaluation of the curriculum by students, faculty, and administration (Spring 2015). g. Adjust any needed changes and continue (Spring 2015-Spring 2016). <br/>''Goal 3. Establish a multidisciplinary Innovation Club (XU CREATE).'' Objectives: a. Recruit student members from different disciplines. b. Appoint officers among student members for the Entrepreneurship Institute club through election. c. Recruit at least six but no more than eight faculty from different disciplines to pitch their ideas to investorsserve on an Executive Board. d. Develop the roles and responsibility of the Executive Board. e.. Local The executive board plans out the events for the 2015-2016 school year including guest speakers , fundraisers, community service, and challenges/competitions. This plan must be approved by the Office of Student Services advisor and Campus Activities; dates will be invited monthly subject to talk to students about their own venture journeys and passionschange. f. Innovation challenges will also take place once a month with main objects as A simple as a spoon or shoe and problem can be selected where students will be given crafty materials compete to design prototypes to get them thinking outside of the box with a reward prototype in hopes of winning a cash prize. This challenge must be advertised in the newspaper, bulletin board, website, etc. The club can meet once challenge occurs outdoors, satisfying its aim to gain more student members. g. Encourage the growth of a week successful innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem (Spring 2016). h. Evaluation by student, faculty, and administration (Spring 2016). i. Adjust any needed changes and continue (Spring 2016). == '''STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2. Provide opportunity for student, faculty, and discuss problems staff innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.''' == ''Goal 1. Encourage student, faculty and work staff to participate in teams innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.'' Objectives: a. Leverage the entrepreneurial skills of alumni (Fall 2015-Spring 2017). b. Encourage faculty research into entrepreneurship (Fall 2014-Spril 2017). c. Review University’s current policy related to Intellectual Property and recommend changes to brainstorm ways include student-led innovation and ownership (Spring 2015-Fall 2015). d. Increase the number of Invention Disclosures to solve themat least five per year (Fall 2014-Spring 2017). e. This club will be an avenue Increase the number of Provisional Patent Applications to give at least three per year (Fall 2014-Spring 2017). f. Increase the students resources such as internshipsnumber of Non-provisional Patent Applications to at least two per year (Fall 2014- Spring 2017). g. Develop policy for student, faculty, venture firm capital informationand staff start-up companies to facilitate technology transfer and commercialization (Fall 2015). h. Remain active in the HBCU Collaborative to learn and share best practices (Fall 2014-Spring 2017). <br/>''Goal 2. Form strategic alliances with other universities and private sectors for innovation, StartUp Weekend infotechnology transfers, etcand commercialization.''

[[FileObjectives:Create a.jpg|thumb]]Leverage existing collaboration with other local universities (e.g., Tulane University and LSU Health Sciences Center) to increase research innovation (Fall 2014-Spring 2017). b. Leverage existing partnership with Louisiana Vaccine Center (LVC), Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium (LCRC), and Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (LaCATS) to increase in research innovation (Fall 2014-Spring 2015). c. Establish new partnerships with industry to facilitate technology transfer and commercialization (Fall 2014-Spring 2017). d. Invite CEOs from New Orleans BioInnovation Center (NOBIC) and Idea Village to join the XU Innovation Club’s Executive Board (Fall 2015).   == '''STRATEGIC PRIORITY 3. Provide opportunities for local K-12 students to learn innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.''' == ''Goal 1. Encourage K-12 students in innovation and entrepreneurship.'' Objectives: a. Invite K-12 students to participate in innovation and entrepreneurial activity at Xavier (Fall 2015). b. Organize innovation and business plan competition for K-12 students (Spring 2016-Spring 2017).   == '''STRATEGIC PRIORITY 4. Obtain financial resources needed to support ICE initiative.''' == ''Goal 1. Develop plan to increase alumni giving to support campus Innovation Competition.'' Objectives: a. Invite alumni to sponsor a participating “student innovator/entrepreneur” (Fall 2015). b. Collect a nominal membership fees to join the Innovation Club (Fall 2015). <br/>''Goal 2. Develop plan to obtain private sector funding to sponsor campus Innovation Competition.'' Objectives:

#Obtain the paperwork necessary to begin a student organization on campus (April 2014)#Find an advisor and committed executive board members to start this club. Submit copies of the Constitution and By Laws, Letter of Intent, and Student Roster to Campus Activities to gain an interest group charter (April 2014-August 2014)#Meet with the faculty advisor, Professor Mark Quin; supportive faculty members interested in helping; Dr. Partha Bhattacharjee, Dr. Kristi Brumfield, and Dr. Tarun Mandal; and the committed students interesting in having a leadership role to discuss future plans and visions of the club. (Fall 2014)#Create an innovation challenge with executive board members and advisor to attract more students to sign up to join. A simple problem can be selected where students compete to design a low prototype in hopes of winning a prize from other student votes. (Fall 2014)#This challenge must be advertised in the newspaper, bulletin board, website, et al. The challenge occurs outdoors, satisfying its aim to gain more student members.(Fall 2014)#The executive board plans out the events for the 2014-2015 school year including guest speakers, fundraisers, community service, challenges<br/competitions>''Goal 3. (Fall 2014)#This Develop plan must be approved by the advisor and Campus Activities, dates will be tentative to changeobtain extramural funding. (Fall 2014)#Look forward to a successful and developing innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem (Fall 2014 –Spring 2015)#Evaluation by student, faculty, and administration (Fall 2015)#Adjust any needed changes and continue (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)''

Freshman Seminar (FRSM 1000/FRSM 1100) is a yearlong mandatory course that all incoming freshman must take to satisfy graduation requirements. The goals of the Freshman Year Experience are to empower freshmen with the skills and support needed for college success Identify potential extramural funding sources (and Xavier successSpring 2015), enhance their professional development, and understand their role and mission as Xavier students. Every year, over 600 students fill the seats in these classrooms and this would be a perfect opportunity to introduce students to innovation and entrepreneurship. This course could give students the chance to start thinking about world problems and collaborating in teams to find solutions to those problems. My advisor plans to set up a meeting with the faculty that teach Freshman Seminar and discuss the goals of the NCIIA, along with the importance of promoting student creativity on our campuses. If all FRSM faculty members could donate at least 30% of each class time discussing these issues, Xavier is that much closer instilling innovation and entrepreneurship in the early curriculum for the college students. Team Leaders: Professor Mark Quin, Dr. Partha Bhattacharjee, Dr. Mandal, Chigozie Dike, etc.

#Supporting faculty members and the President of the Innovation Club form an Xavier team that will contact all FRSM faculty members to set a date for the meeting (May 2014)#A presentation and discussion between faculty members should occur where FRSM professors are informed about the mission of NCIIA and the positive consequences that will result from implementing innovation and entrepreneurship in their classroomsc. (Fall 2014)#Feedback from FRSM faculty should be taken into consideration and used Submit grant applications to establish a plan for Freshman Seminar curriculums. (Fall 2014)#The Xavier team establishes a curriculum for the course that FRSM faculty members are satisfied with. &nbsp;(Fall 2014)#This freshman curriculum must be approved by deans, provost, state and president of the university. federal agencies (Fall 20142015- Spring 20152017).#The new Freshman Seminar course with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship is ready to begin! (Spring 2015)#Evaluation of the curriculum by students, faculty, and administration (Spring 2015)#Adjust any needed changes and continue (Spring 2015-Spring 2016)

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The information obtained from the OPEN 2014 2015 conference revealed so many resources that could be brought back to Xavier’s campus. The employees from LinkedIn, Google, and Stanford University were excited to speak with the university innovation fellows and give feedback to improve innovation and entrepreneurship on their campuses. The New Orleans Bio Innovation Center is a local company that is committed to biomedical research and technology. Xavier University places a strong emphasis on health and science and getting people from this organization to speak to Xavier students would encourage creativity. There are local entrepreneurs that currently speak weekly hosted by the Entrepreneurship Institute in the Business Department. However, there are only a small percentage of students that attend. By opening the current gap to include local innovators as well as entrepreneurs, more students might be interested in the NCIIA’s goal and see that this movement is relevant to them as well. [[File:Eilogo.png|thumb|Eilogo.png]]