SA国际传媒

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2019鈥擜 new campus-wide initiative at SA国际传媒 will create a central hub to guide, coordinate and elevate the innovation and entrepreneurship efforts of students across campus鈥� from those studying arts and humanities, to engineering students, to business or science majors.

SA国际传媒鈥檚 expanded and re-envisioned Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) will unify and build upon existing programming designed to spur innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the current startup competitions and mentoring at the Leavey School of Business; virtual- and augmented-reality experimentation underway in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥� Imaginarium space; the School of Engineering鈥檚 prototyping Maker Lab; and the five-year-old Entrepreneurs鈥� Law Clinic at the School of Law.

The University is actively soliciting significant new funding to support this bold vision, with an aim of creating an 鈥渆ntrepreneurial mindset鈥� across campus.

Current programs will continue鈥� in some cases housed in CIE鈥攁nd will be supplemented by new initiatives coordinated by CIE. Among the initiatives under consideration:

• 鈥淒esign thinking鈥� courses to emphasize the need to 鈥渜uestion everything鈥� and fully combine humanistic needs and desires with promising technical and business projects
• Joint certificates or degrees in areas such as product innovation or new-venture management
• A larger, more-robust program of speakers, tours, design challenges, and hackathons coordinated through CIE
• Research support for faculty working on issues such as barriers to innovation or advances for innovation research.
• Creating additional in-residence and visiting lecturer opportunities
• Opportunities for alumni entrepreneurship affinity groups to benefit from and help shape CIE programming
• Expanding or supplementing current courses on the ethics, theology, sociology of innovation and entrepreneurship

鈥淭he graduates of the future likely will have 10 or more jobs鈥攊n many cases in fields that have yet to be envisioned,鈥� said Caryn Beck-Dudley, dean of the Leavey School of Business, who worked with the CIE board, entrepreneurial faculty and other partners across campus to coordinate the new CIE. 鈥淭hey need skills and aptitude for reinvention. Across all disciplines, our students will be more agile and adaptive if they are part of an ecosystem that instills a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship.鈥�

鈥淭he new CIE will reflect the best of Jesuit education and Silicon Valley鈥檚 culture of ideas and business creation, and will help shape how SA国际传媒 students learn, grow and adapt to the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that surrounds them,鈥� said SA国际传媒 Provost Dennis Jacobs. 鈥淭his campus will increasingly be a place where ideation abounds, creative discussions ensue, and innovation happens.鈥�

As part of its mission, CIE will infuse its programming with three distinct characteristics that will set it apart from other university centers of entrepreneurship.

• The Jesuit Perspective: teaching behaviors that reflect critical thought and responsible action on moral and ethical issues, and emphasizing ethical entrepreneurship to address genuine human need;
• Authentic Entrepreneurial Learning Experiences: 鈥渆mbedding鈥� students in companies for observation and value-added long-term projects, and encouraging and supporting student startups;
• The Entrepreneurial Mindset: using a uniquely Jesuit lens, students will be encouraged to learn the fundamentals of value creation, including discerning whether their innovations are creating value or solving socially meaningful problems.

鈥淐IE, with its new scope spanning the college and all of the schools at SA国际传媒, is a unique opportunity to combine the breadth of disciplines at the University, the Jesuit mission of service to others, and our location in the most innovative region of the world into a program that will enable SA国际传媒鈥檚 students to have generations-long impact on improving the world,鈥� said Chris Norris, the veteran entrepreneur who recently became CIE鈥檚 executive director.

About Leavey School of Business
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the most dynamic business environments in the world, the Leavey School of Business combines academic excellence in the 450-year Jesuit tradition, with an energetic, innovative spirit that typifies the region. For more information, see www.scu.edu/business/.

About SA国际传媒
SA国际传媒, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 9,000 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering; master's degrees in business, education, counseling psychology, pastoral ministry, and theology; and law degrees and engineering doctoral degrees. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see .

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