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Our newest program, starting in fall 2019, SIF is dedicated to creating social innovators and entrepreneurs who are inspired by Ignatian values — rigor, generosity, gratitude, inclusivity, solidarity, and a desire for the greater good.
We’ll challenge you to grow your entrepreneurial mindset, your curiosity, and your desire to experiment while you actively engage with the Ward 6 community in Cleveland to understand what is holding residents back from thriving and to collaboratively build sustainable solutions that will empower and transform their future. You’ll become a catalyst for social innovation and entrepreneurship across the JCU campus and in any community in which you find yourself.
The Social Innovation Fellows (SIF) Program is a growth opportunity for incoming John Carroll University freshmen dedicated to becoming social innovators and entrepreneurs inspired by Ignatian values. This fellowship produces graduates who can identify opportunities for innovation in the marketplace and can design and execute solutions for sustainable social change.
JCU has 4 University Learning Goals for its students — Intellect, Character, Leadership, and Service. Our existing signature programs address three of these four: Arrupe Scholars (Service), Leadership Scholars (Leadership), and Honors Program (Intellect). The SIF program complements these programs by addressing the fourth goal: Character. Through curricular and co-curricular paths, students will develop an entrepreneurial character as they:
We will accomplish this by challenging students to grow and achieve mastery in the following areas through an innovative learning experience:
Mindset: Social Innovation Fellows will develop their entrepreneurial mindset. They will develop curiosity and a desire to experiment, and collaboratively and iteratively build solutions around social issues in the Ward 6 community in Cleveland.
Reflection: Social Innovation Fellows will be reflective learners. They will integrate curricular and co-curricular learning experiences to advance their understanding and practice of social innovation and entrepreneurship. The curricular path will consist of the Fellows completing the Entrepreneurship Minor as a cohort.
Sustainability: Social Innovation Fellows will demonstrate a commitment to sustainable social innovation. They will actively engage with the Ward 6 community in Cleveland to empathize with and understand what is holding residents back from thriving and to collaboratively build sustainable solutions that will empower and transform their future.
Advocacy: Social Innovation Fellows will advocate for social innovation and entrepreneurship. They will be a catalyst for social innovation and entrepreneurship across the John Carroll campus and in any community in which you find yourself.
In your application to the SIF Program, you will be asked to provide a video submission addressing the following:
Social Innovation Fellows receive the following benefits:
Social Innovation Fellows are challenged to think entrepreneurially and grow intellectually while at John Carroll University. To facilitate this, the program offers a suite of social entrepreneurship and innovation-oriented courses that students take as a cohort while fulfilling the requirements of JCU’s Integrative Core Curriculum. In addition, Fellows will be required to complete the Entrepreneurship Minor.
Freshman Year: Foundational Skills
EN125 (3 credits): A Core course for all JCU students, this class will introduce students to university-level writing through work on papers that revolve around social entrepreneurship and innovation.
ER110 (3 credits): Discusses what is creativity, how to enhance it and use it to solve problems. Uses experiential exercises and lens of visual, digital, and musical arts to create and present projects/ideas.
CO125 (3 credits): A Core course for all JCU students, this class will introduce students to the art of public speaking through the preparation and delivery of speeches on social entrepreneurship and innovation topics.
ER201 (3 credits): The creative process – what it is, how to improve it, how to work with it. Uses a project-focused approach to show how creative thinking applies to the development of innovations and inventions in the arts, sciences, and business. Students learn how to move from an idea as a vague concept to an innovation as a well-designed idea. Ethical issues will be discussed.
Sophomore Year: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ER301 (3 credits)/Prerequisites: ER 201: Study of entrepreneurship and its role in new venture creation, as well as its impact on economic growth and development. Using the Business Model Canvas students explore the functional areas of business: Project development; production and operations; marketing and sales; finance and accounting, etc.
ER304 (3 credits)/Prerequisites: ER 201 and ER 301: Applies the principles examined in ER 301 to social enterprises. Introduces the meaning and importance of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy and demonstrates how entrepreneurial orientation can assist in the attainment of non-profit and social objectives as a means for social justice.
Junior Year: Research and Experimentation
ER305 (3 credits)/Prerequisites: ER 301: The basic role of accounting in an organization. Analysis and interpretation of financial statements, tax data, and project planning and assessment. Also, concepts related to making financial decisions: the cost of capital, time value of money, etc., and the sources and approaches to raising entrepreneurial capital. (ER305 is for Arts and Sciences Students; Business Students take AC201 & 202 or 211)
ER306 (3 credits)/Prerequisites: ER 301: Introduction to marketing, especially the marketing needs of entrepreneurial enterprises. Topics include distribution, pricing, promotion, product decisions and strategies, the sales process, and management of ethical problems (ER306 for Arts and Sciences Students; Business Students take FN312 & MK301 ).
Senior Year: Advocacy and Action
ER480 (3 credits)/Prerequisites: Approval of the Entrepreneurship Academic Program Director, and completion of at least 12 hours of coursework in the minor, including ER 305 or 306 (FN 312 or MK 301 for students on the Business track): Students will bring together everything they have learned in the Social Innovation Fellows curriculum and use it to create an advocacy project. The purpose of this project is for students to implement an innovative solution to a social problem that they researched during their junior year. This project will serve as their capstone experience as a Social Innovation Fellow.
All Social Innovation Fellows experiences will be designed and executed by the Muldoon Center staff and leadership team with collaboration with Financial Aid staff. Experiences will be focused on an annual theme:
Freshman Theme: Foundational Skills
Sophomore Theme: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Junior Theme: Research and Experimentation
Senior Theme: Advocacy and Action
There are many events happening across the John Carroll University campus that are not Social Innovation Fellows-specific, but that Muldoon Center leadership will incorporate into their experience.