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The University of Oklahoma has momentum and a lot of potential when it comes to Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus. Through mapping all of the resources on campus, it has been determined that there are a few key areas where Unniversity Innovation Fellows and faculty can come together to further advance entrepreneurship on our campus.

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*<span style="font-size:medium;">Start Plans on Campus Spring 2015</span>

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">Description - In our time spent at Stanford, many of the professors described the classes they taught as creativity courses where crazy brainstorming and rapid prototyping is a key portion of the class. At OU, we have very little of this. Almost all classes, even in the visual communications department are focused on traditional lecture classes. One of our main goals is to promote this creative thinking through working with professors to offer a creative thinking course similar to the one Tina Seelig teaches. This initially be something that is just offered to a few students and once the benefits are seen and it is shown that students enjoy using their hands to prototype with playdoh and other materials during class, we will look to expand to offer more classes.</span></span>

**<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other Majors required to take course in creative thinking - Fall 2016</span></span>

*<span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Description - There are few ideas that span every major at a major university, but one that is absolutely true for each is the fact that a student learns more by doing rather than listening. Universities like Stanford have begun to implement this with the d.school being open to all majors, but OU is slow in this area. If we want students to be as well prepared as possible when graduating, we need to get the students doing projects that have a real world impact and allow the students to get a hands on experience. To do this, we can partner with local business and work directly with them to develop projects that a small team of students can work on.</span>

**<span id="docs-internal-guid-d7e36521-2f40-098a-ceda-285ade7ff56c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Integrate into class - Spring 2015</span></span>

*<span style="font-size:medium;">Description: There are Presidential Dream Courses taught at OU that bring together professors and speakers from all different disciplines. They are a series of lectures taught by accredited and renowned leaders from their fields. The Dream Courses range from science to the existence of God, from music to ancient Roman history. We are hoping to host a Presidential Dream Course on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. We are hoping this will have three main effects. First, this will bring important leaders in creativity(like Tina Seelig) to the OU campus and they will see the infrastructure we already have in place. Secondly, this course will be open to all students and will bring in some that may have not thought they had an interest in entrepreneurship. Third, it will prove to the university and the University President the demand for entrepreneurship and creativity on our campus. This is my top priority and something that will cause lasting change on campus, and is unique to our campus landscape.&nbsp;</span>