{"id":260,"date":"2021-11-11T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/emailarchive\/?p=260"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:18:47","slug":"creativity-innovation-updates-and-opportunities-block-3-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/emailarchive\/2021\/11\/11\/creativity-innovation-updates-and-opportunities-block-3-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity & Innovation Updates and Opportunities, Block 3, Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Updates & Opportunities<\/strong>
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Block 4 First Monday Presentation
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Director of Creativity & Innovation
Dez Stone Menendez \u201900<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 29th, 2021 
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What is Innovation, Anyway?
Creativity & Innovation in Higher Education<\/span><\/div>\n
 
In this talk, Dez Stone Menendez (\u201900), director of Creativity & Innovation, explores what it means to expand innovation beyond the commercial sphere to the cultural, social, and personal, and shares the philosophy and guiding principles behind the Creativity & Innovation initiative at CC. We are at a cultural moment in which challenges abound, socially, politically, economically. The world is more interdependent than ever before, and the challenges of the 21st century demand multilateral solutions that presently don\u2019t exist. It is, therefore, critical that the current generation of college students is provided with robust opportunities to build the skills and attitudes they need to address these challenges. Although it is difficult to create a formula to prepare students for 21st century problems, there is a clear need for higher education to re-think how to help students access their own inner resources and develop the creative confidence to address areas that call out for new and radical solutions \u2014 to become changemakers in their own lives and in the world.
 
In keeping with CC\u2019s history of challenging educational norms, Creativity & Innovation at CC takes a more radical approach to \u201cinnovation\u201d than many of our peer institutions. Rather than building a stand-alone program on the edge of campus, we have taken a broader, more integrated approach by actively collaborating with faculty and co-curricular partners in all areas of the college to develop programs that help students learn to: navigate ambiguity, communicate across difference, build resilience, and move ideas into action. In this talk, Dez shares how Creativity & Innovation is working to amplify and support opportunities for students to develop the capacities that will prepare them to face the complex challenges \u2013 and unique opportunities \u2014 of our rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n

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Dez Stone Menendez (\u201900) started as the director of Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College in September 2016. She began working as a serial entrepreneur at age 22. The orienting principle of her work is to empower people to lead larger and more creative lives. Driven by a commitment to intuition and possibility, her experience is broad and varied: from building tiny homes and designing and manufacturing lifestyle products to incubating tech applications; there is no subject that Dez doesn\u2019t find interesting. She founded the Possibility Room in 2009, which began as a startup incubator in Seattle focused on executing new businesses and expanding existing businesses. Dez believes that true innovation results from listening to your own unique knowing. She spends a lot of time thinking about how to cultivate containers that allow for this. She is more interested in questions than answers: What happens when we allow space for the unknown? What kind of freedom is available when we decide to be driven by values and intuition rather than convention? What is innovation, anyway?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Creativity & Innovation <\/strong>
Faculty & Staff Funding Opportunities<\/strong>
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Creativity & Innovation offers two types of funding for faculty and staff: Creative Exploration Grants and Changemaker Collaboration Grants. Tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, lecturers, year-long visitors, and staff members are eligible to apply.
 
Our funding goals include:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n