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Campus Client Project

Wyatt Kinsinger, Kris Lee, Kelly Stokes, Brent Walton, James Wegmiller, Hannah Yokum

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Preview of Main Points

  • Identify the problem.
  • Analyze why the problem exists.
  • Establish solution criteria.
  • Brainstorm ideas to fit the criteria.
  • Choose the best solutions.
  • Determine how to evaluate the results.

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Step 1: What’s the Problem?

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“What should the Office of Student and Community engagement (SCE) do to be a truly inclusive space where any student feels comfortable getting assistance, hanging out, or asking questions?”

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Step 2: Analyze the Problem

  • Overall, the SCE wants more traffic and more diversity.
  • Why does it exist?
    • General knowledge gap
  • Who is affected?
    • Student body
    • Also the SCE employees
  • Where is the problem located?
    • In why students come through
    • Lack of online presence
  • How has it been addressed?

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Step 3: Establish Solution Criteria

-Guide lines for Solution

-Survey 6 months to a year

-The Standards in Which We Will Measure Our Solution

-Increase in knowledge

-Time

-Resources (budget/staff)

-Surplus of $3,000-$5,000

-Approvals needed

-Board of Trustee’s

-Deanna

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Step 4: Brainstorm

  • Location changes
    • Changing location of the door, switching locations with Schneider N
  • More signage around the office and Student Union
    • Logo and branding , sign up sheets
  • Table in the lobby of the Student Union
    • Be able to sign up at this location with iPad
  • Students ‘Day(s) of Play’
    • Movie night, Mud Tug, Bubble Soccer
    • Dodgeball Tournament, water balloon/snowball fights

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Step 5: Choose Solutions

  • New Website / Better online Presence

New Website in order to make life easier for student orgs, more activity on social media

  • Sign-up Table

Many students requested a physical sign-up for events, to go with the electronic sign-ups.

  • Move Door

Move the door to center with the hallway.

  • More Event Ideas

Four days of play, “Zombie Tag”, Winter Snowball Fight, Mud Volleyball, Water balloon fight, mud tag, etc.

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Step 6: Evaluate Results

  • Conduct Survey Series #1
    • Similar questions to the Focus Group
    • Distributed to all students
    • Incentivize survey completion
  • Use data as baseline
  • Use/Implement our recommendations
  • Conduct Survey Series #2
    • Distributed in spring of 2018
    • Use same questions
    • Compare data from series 2 to series 1
    • Repeat every year
  • Success/Failure

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Summary

  • Explained the problem facing the SCE.
  • Analyzed why the problem exists.
  • Explained solution criteria.
  • Brainstormed ideas that fit the criteria.
  • Chose solutions for the problem.
  • Determined how to evaluate the results.

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