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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The college and its faculty and staff encourage student innovation and entrepreneurship through the Creative Collaborative Grant program and SCICU grant applications, SGA funding, and Student Excellence funding by the Provost. </span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Aspects of the new LEAD Action Plan are already being implemented. The School of the Arts is in its first year of conducting courses that specifically link innovation and creative entrepreneurship with </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">arts </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">disciplines for freshmen and sophomores. Eventually, the entire campus academic system will follow this lead.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span>
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">For what Converse lacks in engineering and technology programs and resources, it makes up with student passion and initiative. Students are encouraged by faculty, staff, and campus leaders to participate in innovative activities, provide solutions for campus-wide problems, and create programs or organizations to tackle them. There is no formalized problem solving or venture creation process, but some channels students can access when looking to implement solutions or open dialogue are the individual academic departments, the Center for Professional Development, the Office of Student Life, the Center for Leadership and Service, the President's Office, and the Student Government Association (SGA).</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">A significant portion of the student body is actively involved in the SGA.However, there is Converse College Radio</span></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, a new venture this year0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, has been notably entrepreneurial from its inception. At presentgeneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;there is ">no SGA organization that caters to the specifically entrepreneurial needs of the students. There has been an emergence of a couple certifications including the Music Business and Technology Certificate, Performance Certificate for Non-Performance Music Majors, and the Business Professionalism Certificate Program, all of which require students to take an array of courses across one or two disciplines. </span></span></span>
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