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Alumni Engagement

You were involved as a student, now let’s get you involved as a proud alumnus. If you have any questions, please contact our director of development Ed Phillips at ephillips2@csuchico.edu.

Invest Your Time and Talent

  • Jeff Spahr, John Trinta, and Marti Sutton (left to right) offer coaching and mentorship

    Judge a Competition

    By judging a competition, you to give students 'real world' feedback. Some of our student competitions include:

    • Sales Competitions
    • Stock Pitch Competition
    • Elevator Pitch Competition
    • Seed Innovation Challenge
  • Katie Santa Cruz (center) and other visiting executives alumni lecture and facilitate discussions in separate classes

    Be an Executive on Campus

    Every spring the Dean of the College of Business invites a group of our most successful alumni and friends to share their talents and knowledge with hundreds of our students in and out of the classroom. The visiting alumni and friends are each asked to lecture and facilitate discussions in two separate classes that happen on the date of Executives on Campus.

  • Mitch Casselman lectures to students in Business Administration

    Mentor

    Serve as a mentor to students needing career or entrepreneurial advice.

Invest to Strengthen Our Programs

Your gifts to the College of Business are an investment that directly impacts the success of our students, programs, and faculty. You give us an essential complement to our base of state funding that furthers our commitment to academic excellence. Indeed, your actions today decide our reputation tomorrow.

Your charitable contributions allow us to stretch our programs beyond the ordinary and into the innovative, to give students access to real-world challenges and experiences that make them more marketable upon graduation, and to sustain a top-notch faculty that earns straight A’s in teaching, mentoring, research and community engagement.

Sponsorship Opportunities

  • Sponsor a scholarship for tuition or even books.
  • Sponsor a paid internship.
  • Sponsor a tutor who can help other students learn through the Business Student Success Center.
  • Sponsor a faculty research project so they remain current in their field.
  • Sponsor competitions and events that help students practice new skills and grow their confidence.

Give a Gift

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