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= Priority 3: Creating a College of the 21st and 22nd Century Energizing alumni connection network =
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Kansas City currently has some of the fastest internet in the United States. Thanks to Google Fiber and excellent city planning the high-tech industry in the KC areas has been rapidly expanding in recent years. Recent developments on the William Jewell campus and points of pride for the college are also focused on tech utility. In fall of 2013 the college opened its Pryor Learning Commons, a bookless library and collaborative space for its students and faculty. In 2014 it unveiled its Jewellverse initiative which vastly improved the college's wifi capabilities and equipped every student and faculty member with an iPad. The college's 24== Thesis<br/7 innovation suites contain a free-to-use 3D-printer and digital media editing suites. The recent trend in the campus environment has been to be as tech savy as possible, yet with all of this technology being used on campus the only degree program in technology is the school's recently added interactive digital media degree. > ==
Interviews with faculty, alumni, and students have shown that interest is high in the Jewell communiy for an increase in availability of computer science courses. Similarly, businesses such as Cerner are hard pressed to find locally-grown computer scientists. It is with this information that the 2015 Fall cohort is proposing Solidify a route to increase the presence of computer science courses on the William Jewell campus while simultaneously connecting William for Jewell students to the best universities in the world. within Kansas City professional atmosphere
== <span style="font-size: 12px;">What do we mean by this?it looks like</span><br/> ==
 <span style="font-size: 12px; edx.org is "></span>While we do host career mentor programs, a website that was co-founded by way to broaden the Massachusetts Institute scope of Technology and Harvard University. It allows these efforts would see an addition to the general public curriculum which takes students to Kansas City for learning experiences related to take courses from the founding institutions as well as many other worldtheir major-specific fields. My vision for this is for it to include requiring certain class universitites for free or at very low costsexperiences to occur in the field. The current version This could look like a professor pushing students to seek out answers to questions within the Kansas City area and creating a tradition of this plan for technology course expansion has three phasesstudent academic involvement within the professional landscape there.
=== Phase 1 === One of the many computer science courses offered on edx.org is Harvard's famed CS50 which immerses students in different programming languages. Our goal is to create a system in which students can enroll in the certificate verified CS50 course and complete the graded course to receive P/F credit. The ideal program would send a professor and student to Harvard over the upcoming summer to take part in the CS50 education course through the Harvard Extension school and a single student every summer thereafter. The course would be structured as a tutorial <span style class, students watching the lectures and beginning their coursework outside of class and meeting twice a week to collaborate on their projects. At the the end of the semester the group would complete a project to improve campus. === Phase 2 ===  "font-size: 12px; "> Upon successful implementation of phase 1 the program would increase the accredited-courses offered at Jewell through CS50. Programs like R and statistic for hard sciences and Ruby for beginners. If phase 1 went exceptionately well, it would be possible to include non-computer science classes to increase the diversity of courses offered at Jewell. === Phase 3 =</span> ==
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Upon the completion of phases 1 and 2 and the culture of computer science has increased on Jewell's campus a degree program in computer science will be created. By offering a degree in computer science the college will enhance its position on the midwest and national stage and produce talented graduates with skill sets that fill the computer science needs of companies in the Kansas City area and beyond.
= Priority 4: Interdisciplinary Communication =