Strategic Corporate Partners

Strategic Corporate Partners (SCPs)– a world class initiative that engages SCP executives in the PPEC with university leadership along with practicing professionals and recent retiree alums with students, faculty, and staff in a variety of experiences throughout the undergraduate experience. The goal is to leverage the curricular Professional Practice Program and co-curricular Student-centered Professional Practice Scholars (SPPS) initiatives to create new higher education/industry partnering standards in collaboration with FPPC, SPPC, SDSC and PPEC. This would provide an alternative to traditional university Corporate Partner/Affiliate Programs that tend to treat corporate partners as donors or sponsors of university-developed programs that typically provide various levels of access to faculty and students. By engaging corporate investor/partners in creating sustainable innovations and programs that foster and support student-centered active learning, The University would immediately enhance existing corporate relationships and develop new ones, for example, an alumni chapter would be established within each SCP.