Transcript 2012 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting

Leveraging Innovation and
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for
Successful Community Engagement
McNeese State University
Dr. Jeanne Daboval
Janet Woolman
Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs
Executive Director of Research & Governmental Relations
Director of the Louisiana Environmental Research Center
McNeese State University
• Welcome
• Introduction
• About McNeese State University
– Mission
– Core Values
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SEED Center
• Community/University Partnerships:
– McNeese State University, Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, City of Lake
Charles, and the Chamber Southwest
• Collaborative initiative with the university to centralize economic
development and entrepreneurial activities for our 5-parish area which
will stimulate:
– Small business formation, job creation , economic diversification, on –
campus culture of entrepreneurship and innovation
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SEED Center
• SEED Center Concept
– Beginnings
– McNeese resources and potential offerings
– Campus involvement
– Soliciting input
– Recruiting individual faculty
– Second call for input (leadership team)
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SEED Center
• Partnership Concept
– SEED Center is born (partners agree on a name)
– THE idea
– Potential for campus culture and curriculum
transformation
– SEED conversation reignited
– Campus Location secured------conversation gains
serious attention
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SEED Center
• SEED Center
– Identifying key faculty leaders
– Keeping an eye on the objective (it’s about
students)
– Building Designed (architects role)
– Funding (patchwork from several resources)
– Groundbreaking Ceremony
– Conversation intensifies
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SEED Center
• SEED Center
– Programming
– Interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration
– Chamber operations
– Small business incubator
• Implementation of THE idea
• Transform existing partnerships for economic
development
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Existing Community/University
Partnerships
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Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
Pinnacle Excellence Awards
National Hurricane Museum
Children’s Museum
Calcasieu Community Clinic
Center for Advancement of Meat Production
and Processing (CAMPP)
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Community/University
Partnerships
• Institute for Industry Education Collaboration
(IIEC)
• PPG Nature Lab
• Anne Rosteet Hurley Center for Economic
Education
• Banners Cultural Series
• Tuten Park
• LERC
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Community/University
Partnerships
• Service Learning
– Youth Orchestra
– Horse Literacy Project
– Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
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Undergraduate Scholar Program
• Purpose:
– To foster faculty / student mentorship in applied
research
– Include Alumni professionals in evaluating student
and faculty work.
– Chamber supported an entrepreneur track and
included local business owners to identify
business potential.
– Statewide Academic Summit
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Leveraging Collaboration
• Overview:
– Community engagement
– Faculty engagement
– Innovation
• Lessons Learned
– What worked
– What did not work
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Key aspect of University Innovation:
“I think you should be more explicit here in step two”
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Louisiana Environmental Research
Center (LERC)
• Purpose of the Program: approved in 1990 by
the Louisiana Board of Regents for the purpose of
conducting research focused on environmental
problems of importance to southwest Louisiana and
the Gulf of Mexico region
• Partners: NOAA, NRCS, Port of Lake Charles,
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, University of
Louisiana at Lafayette, Nicholls State University,
CPC, Chamber Southwest, private landowners, and
other government and small business agencies.
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Louisiana Environmental Research
Center (LERC)
• Projects: Louisiana Native Plant Initiative,
Phytochemical Investigation of Louisiana Hypericum,
Species Effects of Native Plants and Plant Derivatives
on Medically Important Arthropods, Alligator
Immunology, Investigations of Excessive
Sedimentations in Calcasieu Ship Channel and
Surrounding Watersheds: Hydrodynamics and
Sediment Transport, Phytoremediation Studies in
Contaminated Soils Using Spartina Alterniflora, Living
Laboratory, Marsh Views, and the Hurricane Project.
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LERC
• Professors in the departments of Chemistry,
Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Biology
and Health Sciences, Agriculture, Visual Arts,
and Performing Arts departments are working
together in an interdisciplinary collaboration
on a project that is important to our
community.
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Encouraging Interdisciplinary
Collaboration
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Blend of formal and informal strategies
Create a common cause
Socials
Meetings
LERC Information Day
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Community Engagement
SEED Center
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Innovation
Innovation is NOT:
More of the same
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Innovation
• What is innovation?
– Merriam-Webster defines innovation as “the
introduction of something new.”
– Peter Drucker, in his book titled “Innovation and
Entrepreneurship,” defines innovation as the
“specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act
that endows resources with a new capacity to
create wealth.”
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Innovation
Or, in the words of Dr. Seuss:
Think left and think right
and think low and think high
Oh! The thinks you can think up
if only you try!
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Innovation Engineering
• How did McNeese implement Innovation
Engineering?
• What is Innovation Engineering?
• Minor is housed under the Office of the
Provost
• Benefit to students
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Innovation Engineering
• Makeup of the instructors and the class
– Originally, Four instructors from four different
disciplines
– Class: Inov180
• Fall 2011- 29 students enrolled representing 11 majors.
Of the 29, three were high school dual enrollment
students.
• Spring 2012- 16 students in one section and 19 in the
second section. 14 different majors represented
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Innovation Engineering
• Lessons Learned: What worked, what did not
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Team teaching
Choosing team members
Identifying and resolving possible territorial conflict
Create advocates
Community perception
Case Studies
Be very clear about the purpose of the class and the
case study results
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Innovation Engineering
• Good and bad in working with students and
business owners
– Students are creative.
– Students don’t know boundaries yet
– Students can be unreliable
– Work may not be quality
– Strengthen community bonds
– Student / business owner interaction
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Activity Example
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Woolman
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Innovation Center
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Questions
Jeanne Daboval
Provost and Vice President for
Academic and Student Affairs
337-475-5508
E-mail: [email protected]
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Janet Woolman
Executive Director-Research and
Government Relations
Director-Louisiana
Environmental Research Center
(LERC)
Phone: 337-475-5125
E-mail: [email protected]
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