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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">We, as students, are entering a post-graduation landscape far different than that of our predecessors. Steeped in technology and connected on a global scale, the tools we need to be successful in the world outside Converse’s campus are ever-changing. It is time for us to foster an innovative, creative ecosystem where failure is nothing but a starting and learning point, and problems are nothing but opportunities. </span></span></span>
= Priority 1: Spark Student Interest Increase awareness of the Social Entrepreneurship minor by adding courses that will spark student interest =<div><br/></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a39d6f75-7fff-ad81-49d4-08889eceafc7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Social Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary minor that caters to all majors to students who are interested in learning how to create and maintain social enterprises in order to contribute to society. The courses offered include general business classes, marketing, economics, english, psychology, philosophy, and theatre, but most of the courses are heavily business based. Due to this reason, many students do not realize that the minor exists. Other students simply are not motivated to start or complete the minor because there are not any courses that guide students to define social problems and design different approaches to solutions. </span></span><div><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potential Courses that can be added</span></span>
<span styleid="color:#000000;docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size:medium11pt;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-serifnumeric: normal;">Converse has a longstanding tradition of selffont-variant-governance. A large portion of her students hold leadership positions on campus. Converse itself is studenteast-regulated, adhering to a unique honor code. The student body is an active one, fully involved in the creation and ideation of Converse's future. In any given year, students plan fundraisers to help crisis centers and cancer research institutes, organize trips to serve all over the United States and abroad, perform institutional research, and design new and exciting clubs to promote student involvement. Converse students aren't uninterested; they simply need to be shown value. </span></span></span> <span style="colorasian:#000000normal;"><span style="fontvertical-sizealign:mediumbaseline;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-serifwrap;">Despite their passionate involvement on Diverse Training: Fighting Hate & Bias and off campus, most Converse students simply aren't aware Social Justice are two topics that conveniently overlap. This course is different from courses already offered due to the nature of entrepreneurship information and topics that would be discussed and innovation on any scalethe interdisciplinary aspect. Those This course would involve between 2-5 professors who are aware of it are intimidated; they equate entrepreneurship with Fortune 500 companies and their firm belief in their inability to succeed. Converse's most popular majors are educationteach History, Politics, visual and performing artsWomen’s Studies, the humanitiesEconomics, and social sciencesPhilosophy. All fields are integrated. ThereforeTopics that would be taught include analyzing underrepresented groups, there is an imminent need for students in ALL majors to be well acquainted with exploring and analyzing different forms of hate and experienced in an entrepreneurial, innovative, bias and collaborative culture.</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:tahomahow they occur,genevadiscuss variations of how to achieve equality,sans-serif;">Priority One speaks learn how to that process. Entrepreneurship combat hate and Innovation, in this case, are not about venture creation, maker spaces, or new engineering departments. They are about the tools bias inside and skills an entrepreneur learns that can be applied to every career path. This process is about speaking to outside the interests of our student bodyworkplace, and introducing them to skills and themes completing a group or class campaign about a specific social issue agreed upon that can help them will take place in all disciplinesConverse for 1 day- 1 week.</span></span><br/span> '''<span styleid="color:#000000;docs-internal-guid-4bcc9d3b-7fff-1a68-05e7-7c530c32c83b"><span style="font-size:medium11pt;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-variant-serifnumeric: normal;">INDUCTING AN I&E ORGANIZATION WITHIN SGA</span></span></span>''' <span style="colorfont-variant-east-asian:#000000normal;"><span style="fontvertical-sizealign:mediumbaseline;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:tahoma,geneva,sanspre-serifwrap;">SGA organizations have tremendous exposure and support on campusDesign Thinking would explore what design thinking is by analyzing case study examples. Students need and benefit from a cohesive outlet for their leadership There will be activities conducted in I&E. Inducting a student led I&E organization through the SGA well enable the UI Fellow beginning of classes in order to ignite curiosity and other leaders within the organization to host speakers, buy supplies, run advertising campaigns, pay for field trips to regional accelerators, organize business pitch competitions etc. creativity in order to help students discover I&Efree the mindset of limited possibilities. Once the UIF Fellow graduates, the organization There will remain also be a project that would take place in small groups or as a class effort to showcase what design thinking is and continue to prosper with new leadershipspark interest to Converse students from various disciplines. </span></span><div><br/span></div></div>
= Priority 2: Establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Converse initiatives and Converse curricula =
