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<big><big><bigdiv style="font-size:x-large;">The school to work pipeline</big></big></big><brdiv>

{{#widget:Vimeo|id=168835461}}<br><br>{{note2|1='''''Note:*''Please note: ' This is private, work-in-progess video from a group of our colleagues at SAP. Please do not share broadly.''}}<bigbr><bigbr><bigdiv style="font-size:x-large;">Making Space for Creativity</big></big></bigdiv><br>Contemplate the question above when reading, <u>Chapter 2: What is the Purpose of Higher Education from the e-book Making Space for Creativity</u>, page 11-15 (starts on page 25 of the PDF).<br><br>

}}<br><bigbr><big><bigdiv style="font-size:x-large;">What's wrong with the current system?</big></big></bigdiv><br>Then check out this animated summary of Sir Ken Robinson's talk "Changing Educational Paradigms."<br><br>{{#widget:Youtube|id=zDZFcDGpL4U|width=75%}}<br><br><big><big><bigdiv style="font-size:x-large;">If we were doing it right, what skillsets and mindsets would students have coming out of college?</big></big></bigdiv><br>This movement is about ALL students cultivating their creative abilities. Design thinking, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship methods help us in doing so. We'll touch on all of it in training but of all of these words entrepreneurship is perhaps the biggest hot button. It's a turn-off for many students, evoking thoughts of greed, capitalism and risk. For others, it's represents the potential to make a difference, create jobs and be independent. Regardless of whether or not you have startup dreams, an entrepreneurial mindset is of vital importance in your career and entrepreneurship training can help you acquire that mindset. Why is it so important? Our friends over at the KEEN program answer that well in the following video.<br><br>{{#widget:Youtube|id=WZHvRpuemgk|width=75%}}<br><br><big><big><bigdiv style="font-size:x-large;">How do you explain it to the academics?</big></big></bigdiv><br>A little over a year ago, the founders of the UIF program were invited to write an article in the journal Liberal Education for the Association of American Colleges and Universities. We've been told by many student and faculty change agents that it presents a logical argument for why change is needed and why students are important levers to bring about that change. Read the article that follows and share it with other potential change agents on campus:<br><br>

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