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<span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After conducting interviews with incoming freshman and faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, we as a cohort have identified some road blockers at our university, which challenge some students to become leaders and innovators within the university system and the Omaha community. One of the significant challenges is the majority of the students that attend our university commute to school and have no reason to remain on campus after their classes have finished. With a vast majority of students commuting to school, we have identified students becoming less interested in becoming involved on campus, in turn, less involved in the community. Another factor we have identified is that there is an innovation program at UNO, but only open to a scholarship learning community. Most students told me that they would take an innovation class if it would count towards their primary or general requirements, and not add to the lessons they already have to take." The idea of a 50/50 innovation class would help bridge the gap of becoming involved in the community while counting this experience as class-credit and learning about leadership and innovation skills. 50% of the "class" time would be spent on learning leadership, innovation, and research skills to count towards requirements for general education. The other 50% of the "class" would be spent working with peers as a group&nbsp; (ideally from different majors) to partner with a Omaha, non-profit or for-profit company, to address a social-political, sustainable, architectural, ex.. issues by applying skills that they have learned in "class" to the Omaha community. This could be an attainable possibility within the Omaha community by working with the Service Learning Academy within the Barara Weitz Community Engagement Center at UNO. There are many resources at UNO that can make this class possible if we pull them together and divide the gap between these resources, to provide more opportunities for innovational learning for all students here at UNO.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">'''<u>2018 UIF Cohort</u>'''</span></span>