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The corporate partnerships CSU, Chico has formed with various companies have enabled us to accomplish many things we otherwise would not have been able to do. The university receives state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and computer hardware and software for teaching and research. Faculty are able to remain current in their fields and to direct research contracts and grants. These research opportunities enhance the university’s reputation and provide income to purchase additional equipment. Students learn to perform projects on modern equipment, and our graduates are highly sought after by industry because they can move with ease from the classroom to the workplace. I would like to highlight some of our cherished relationships. Our College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECST) and IBM formalized an education partnership in 1996. A large cash grant from IBM enabled us to build a Networks Laboratory that, with an IBM-ECST internship program, has paid tremendous dividends for both college and corporation. Maxim Integrated Products also established generous scholarships for our graduate and undergraduate electrical and computer engineering students. Cisco Systems Inc. provided more than $500,000 of network equipment, which will be used to teach engineering and computer science students how to develop high-speed computer networks. They also donated an advanced networking laboratory worth more than $360,000. Hewlett-Packard donated more than $5 million in equipment to the university. The College of Business in turn is the largest supplier of business graduates to H-P. Along with Makino and Spectra-Physics Lasers, H-P played a large role in developing a modern computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory in ECST. SAP selected the College of Business as its first university alliance partner and made a $100,000 grant for software and faculty training. More than 900 students participate in SAP-related classes and are heavily recruited at top salaries for their knowledge of the SAP curriculum. Also, our connections with the K-12 community are vital in fulfilling our obligation to the citizens of the North State and California.
Another partnership that provides huge benefits to the university and community is Nettleton Stadium. Steve and Kathy Nettleton’s gift of “The Net” has given the Wildcats baseball team a beautiful home. The list of those with whom we form invaluable partnerships goes on and on, but I hope I have given you a sense of the university’s wonderful friends. We owe all our partners a debt of gratitude for helping us be what we strive to be.
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