W&M Students for University Advancement
The challenge (Spring 2021)
Tribe Innovation held a session exclusively for the members of Students for University Advancement regarding ways to make their organization, as well as the University as a whole more inclusive. Ultimately the statement converged upon to lead the session was: How Might We integrate diversity and inclusion into SUA internal-external programming?
Design Thinking Process:
Create
SUA was looking both to assess their members' understanding and potential improvements on diversity both internal and external. This workshop was beneficial in understanding and collaborating with members with different and shared experiences to further their ability to support our community. During the workshop participants went through the create phase of design thinking which included brainstorming, organizing, converging, and prototyping.
The results
Ultimately 67 ideas were developed during this workshop and in the end, 5 key concepts were focused on. These potential improvements had a wide range of topics from creating a program that has special food trucks with more diverse foods on campus to wanting to understand how SUA is perceived by others on campus and using that information to create an action plan. As a result of these workshops, members learned about the design thinking process and developed innovative solutions
The challenge (FALL 2018)
Tribe Innovation worked with SUA to derive the problem statement: How might we use design thinking to solve problems creatively?
Design Thinking Process:
Create
During this new workshop, facilitators taught the overall design thinking process, and took participants through the create phase while emphasizing brainstorming.
The results
As a result of this workshop, SUA members learned the mindset and skills of design thinking in order to promote creativity and a readiness to share among the SUA members.
