Building Better Communities Fellows is an
immersive learning
program in which faculty and students find real-world solutions to
real-world problems for Indiana businesses and organizations. We invite
you to check out our
open and
archived projects.
Funded
in part by the Lilly Endowment Inc., the Fellows program engages
interdisciplinary teams of students led by a faculty mentor in on-site,
problem-based projects. We want to assist our local economy by focusing
on directly improving services, developing new job opportunities,
improving quality, or improving competitiveness for our business and
community partners.
The overall goal of our program is to provide
opportunities for students
to put their academic knowledge into action by working directly in
business settings and to provide a more educated workforce by increasing
the number of college graduates who choose to live in Indiana. The
program creates new business connections for students in a wide variety
of disciplines, increases the potential for employment for these
students in Indiana, and provides professional field experience.
Our partners benefit by
having a team of energetic, enthusiastic, bright students examine their
problems from a fresh perspective, with the assistance of a faculty
mentor.