Corporations and Foundations
Partnership. Support and collaboration from corporations and foundations is critical to the university's continued success in creating and sustaining innovative programs in and beyond the classroom and in attracting and retaining exceptional students and faculty. This support provides valuable visibility among students and faculty, and ultimately enables corporations to reap the benefits of well-trained graduates and cutting-edge research and technology.
As a central institutional contact, our corporate and foundation relations staff can guide you in identifying opportunities for partnership across the entire university. This can be advantageous in meeting recruitment research, technology development, and marketing goals. With our knowledge of the breadth and depth of ISU's capabilities, we can help you connect with the appropriate colleges, programs, faculty and students on campus to meet your business needs.
Investing in Students
An educated workforce, strong in analytical and people skills, is vital to the future of a corporation’s success. Iowa State prides itself on offering students a well rounded education that employers value. University wide our undergraduate placement rate is 95%. However, the cost of obtaining a high-quality education is rising and corporations can assist through:
- Scholarships for undergraduates will aid in recruiting; the current estimated cost for the ’08-’09 school year for an Iowa resident is over $17K and a non-resident is over $28K.
- Fellowships for graduate student support; we have 4,718 graduate students currently seeking degrees in more than 200 graduate programs offered at ISU.
Supporting a named scholarship or fellowship will benefit the corporation by creating an identity among students and faculty.
Investing in Faculty
Extraordinary faculty drive the science and technology needed to solve complex problems. Our outstanding scientists are both teachers and mentors who have been given the opportunity — and the responsibility — to shape tomorrow’s leaders and expand the boundaries of student learning onto every continent.
To achieve even greater accomplishments, we must recruit, reward and retain pre-eminent faculty. The university seeks to add 75 new endowed positions during the course of the campaign. This includes endowed chair positions, which will be dedicated to expanding the university’s role in the bioeconomy, infectious disease research, and in specialty areas such as food supply and veterinary medicine.
Through corporate and foundation funding, these positions help retain stellar faculty members and attract new world-class scholars who will lead our education and research efforts as well as train the research leaders of tomorrow, all while encouraging collaboration with the donor.
Investing in Programs
The university has several large initiatives that will allow for significant impact to students, faculty and the world.
- Bioeconomy Initiative: A campus-wide effort, launched in 2002, to investigate the use of biorenewable resources as sustainable feedstocks for producing chemicals, fuels, materials, and energy.
- Live Green!: To make Iowa State University a model of energy efficiency — a university that leads the way in conserving energy and minimizing its impact on global climate change.
- Science Bound: Our goal is to increase the number of diverse Iowans who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through supporting and encouraging tomorrow's college students.
Investing in Facilities
Modern facilities provide creative environments where students and faculty advance learning, broaden research, and create innovations. Iowa State has many ongoing projects that would benefit students in all areas of study.
- BioCentury Research Farm will be the first integrated biomass production and processing facility in the United States that will serve as a model for a system of sustainable biofuels and byproducts production, and to demonstrate the transformation of agriculture to be feedstock ready for the next generation of biorefineries.
- Expanding the capacity of the Dr. W. Eugene and Linda Lloyd Veterinary Teaching Hospital is of utmost importance. Renovation of the intensive care and imaging facilities is essential to integrate the new, high-tech detection and therapy equipment needed to diagnose and treat serious problems, diseases and injuries. A modern isolation unit will enhance biosecurity and control infectious disease among livestock animals.
- One of the university’s most urgent priorities is to provide new facilities for the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering (ABE). The emerging bioeconomy requires discoveries and innovations from crop genetics to agricultural machinery to biorefinery processes. New laboratories and classrooms are critical to ensure ABE’s continued success in advancing these fields through innovation.
Contact Us
Please contact us with questions at CFR@foundation.iastate.edu or 515.294.0374.
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