== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
[http://4-va.org/ 4-Virginia]
*4-VA is a collaborative partnership between four Virginia universities. Its mission is to promote inter-university collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university in order to accomplish much more than any individual university could achieve alone. A large focus of 4-VA is in training professors and other faculty to implement innovative instructional technologies into their courses. Additionally, 4-VA encourages and funds multiple interdisciplinary courses that deal with innovation in the medical and engineering fields.
[https://www.jmu.edu/cise/committees-groups/exec-advisory-council.shtml CISE Dean's Advisory Council]