Submit Your Idea
Submit your idea by completing this worksheet:
I HAVE AN IDEA! (office.com)
Faculty and Staff Hawk Pitch
Great Things Start As Great Ideas — What's Yours?
Your ideas can shape CSM's future.
Do you have a proposal to better serve our students, or facilitate collaboration within the college? Do you have an idea, but want to brainstorm more about it?
Sign up at innovation@csmd.edu for an Info-Innovation coaching and conversation discussion the first Wednesday of the month at Noon.
If that time does not work for you, contact us at innovation@csmd.edu.
PITCH PROCESS
Before you submit I Have An Idea worksheet, things to consider:- Is the worksheet complete?
- Did you reach out to your immediate supervisor?
- Did you reach out to the department your idea will impact?
- We facilitate connections to appropriate departments, if needed. .
- Involve key stakeholders or advisors
- What is the potential impact?
- We facilitate connections to appropriate departments, if needed. .
- Is it feasible?
- Resource requirements?
- Budget Implications?
- Technology Needs?
- The next step, depending on the needs, may be presenting to the President's Cabinet
- College Innovation Work Group will provide guidance.
- Progress and Scalability Assessment
- Periodic updates will be requested.
- Will continue to provide support.as needed.
- Analytics and scalability will be assessed.
Questions?
Not sure if your idea is already being done?
Looking for guidance on idea formation?
Send an email to innovation@csmd.edu.
Past Faculty and Staff Hawk Pitches
2024:
Veterans Academic Day
- To establish an annual Veterans' Day event at the College of Southern Maryland, providing veterans with an opportunity to bring their service records for a comprehensive review. The event will engage veteran faculty and staff as advisors and evaluators, facilitating a thorough examination of potential courses eligible for Credit for Prior Learning (CPL). The goal is to streamline the transition of veterans into academic programs while offering enrollment opportunities and financial guidance through discussions with Financial Advisors. This effort would be an excellent addition to the Strategic Enrollment Management efforts at CSM.
2022:
The English Learning and Cultural Center
- Create an English Learner Pathway (to ensure success)
- Designate a Cultural Center to provide language support and opportunities
- Offer reduce-cost bridge classes (to increase future enrollments)
The Garden Project at Prince Frederick
- Goal: To create a space where students, staff, and the community can come to learn and grow together.
Something that is unique to the garden is the chance, through Farming 4 Hunger, to conduct team building exercises for groups of students, staff, and the community. An average team building experience takes approximately 3 hours and has shown, through research, to improve one another’s view of themselves, others, and the world.
The garden has already begun but we want to create a pathway to the garden that's accessible by everyone (see below). Having ADA access to the garden is very important and it allows it to truly be a community garden.
Outcome: Concrete pathways were funded to make the garden ADA accessible and available
to use by everyone.
Hawk Electronic Music Recording (EMR) Studio and Laboratory
- Staff person left before launching project
Electronic Dean's List Certificate
- Students will be emailed an electronic copy of a Dean's List certificate when they earn's this designation. Currently nothing is sent to students when they earn Dean's List, except when it is posted in the local papers.Approximately 2700 students earn the Dean's list every year.
Home Education to Higher Education - Bridging the Gap
- We would like to provide the Southern Maryland homeschool community with scholarship opportunities for students to engage in hands on classes on CSM’s college campus. These scholarships will reduce the financial burden for parents, offer students a great first college experience, and help bring back homeschool students from our piloted program which started fall of 2019.
Achieve Calm and Learn On
- To implement a holistic approach toward student academic wellness, success, and retention.
- Utilize evidence-based, sustainable, and effective mental health mind-body resources for CSM students, faculty, staff and community.
- Provide an opportunity for personal and professional development to volunteer faculty and staff.
- Create a safe, calm place for students, faculty and staff to practice mindfulness (i.e., sensory garden, labyrinth, etc.)