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Corporate Relations
CSU provides:
- Access to student talent to build your workforce
- Engagement with leadership, faculty and researchers across 10 colleges and schools
- Service opportunities for your employees
- Visibility for your company
Benefits of partnering with CSU
- Talent Attraction -- Connect with CSU students and alumni to fill co-op, internship and staffing positions. Our Career Services division is linked to more workplaces than any other public university in Ohio, collaborating with businesses to transform our most talented students into the next generation of leaders and innovators.
- Research Collaborations – Boost innovation and spur development by partnering with internationally known faculty on projects of mutual interest that advance emerging knowledge into workable solutions.
- Volunteer Engagement – Boost your visibility, enhance your connections and give your employees the opportunity to share their expertise and knowledge through classroom presentations, student mentorship, and service on University boards and visiting committees.
- Philanthropic Investment – Further your business’ mission and values through financial support that enhances student success, faculty initiatives, research and capital needs.
Let’s Partner
We look forward to working with you to build new strategic partnerships -- and strengthen existing collaborations – between Cleveland State University and the corporate community.
Nancy R. Starner
Senior Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
216.687.3550
Brenda Driscoll
Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations
216.687.5538
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