= Strategy 2 =
== Innovation Space Improving Campus Collaboration Culture ==
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span styleface="font-size:small;">Being a division one university, Western Michigan has a large campus full of often underutilized classroom and community spaces. This availability of space, and input from current students highlights the desire and plausibility for a successfully developed innovation space. Existing labs and spaces are available for student use, though many of the labs are under utilized as they are hard to gain access to. Additionally, these spaces only have potential to serve as innovation spaces; they are not labeled or considered as such by current students.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">To accomplish this project, the following tactics should be considered:</span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;2">Tactic #1: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Allocate space. Identify which spaces could be available for innovation and have C^3 is an in depth understanding for what will need initiative to be done connect students to each for it other and to be functionalpeer mentors who can aid in the overall understanding of an individual topic. This helps create an environment of learning and teamwork. -Completed (Spring 2016)</span></span></spanfont> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2: Train leaders to work the room and operate equipment in the safest manner possible. -Completed(Spring 2016)</spandiv><br/span></spandiv>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic #2:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Develop an accountability system to make sure that the spaces are being used and reserved in an orderly way. A system easily available for students to reserve the spaces for limited time and have a system to ensure that the spaces are well kept is a necessity to encourage participation.</span></span></span>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">One of the main functions of innovation spaces are bringing students together to collaborate and improve on each other's ideas. College specific spaces do not encourage this communication across majors. This is why the space is located at the center of main campus in the library. Where it is easily accessible to all students and faculty.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">To forward the progress of this project the following steps should be considered:</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Approach #1: Boost marketing tactics to make more students aware of the existence of the Innovation space.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Approach #2: Acquire additional funding to keep materials and tools well stocked. This could be done through fundraising or company sponsorship.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Approach #3: Get a space in the soon to be built Innovation center. This would allow for a space in the most prime area on campus for ideation and innovation.</span>
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= Strategy 3 =