Partner with Penn State Behrend

When it comes to your organization’s success, you have a partner in Penn State Behrend—we’re committed to helping you achieve your goals, and we know that you can support us in fulfilling our mission. Behrend’s Open Lab strategy positions students and faculty members to engage with external partners⁠—in business and industry, non-profit and community organizations, and others.

We offer a range of services and programs, including research and development, workforce development, and all the resources of a global university. In turn, we encourage you to share your expertise and resources with the Behrend community, helping to prepare the next generation of employees who will help your organization succeed.

Here are some ways you can get started on your partnership with Behrend.

Recruit

When you hire Behrend students and alumni, you help to ensure that they can launch or advance their careers. But you also support your own business or organization by bringing on board talented, skilled employees. Behrend has several opportunities for employers looking to recruit our students or graduates for jobs and internships:

Career and Internship Fair

Career Services

Engage

As a partner with Behrend, we invite you to share your expertise with our students and faculty. This can be as hands-on as you'd like, whether you are interested in guest lectures in classrooms, site visits for students, or senior capstone projects, or whether you'd rather work behind the scenes on an advisory board, program committee, or other guidance role. If you're involved with a family-owned business, consider becoming a member of Behrend's Center for Family Business.

Advocate

Your successful partnership with Behrend is our goal, and our greatest story. By sharing your success story with your network, you can help us expand our mission. And by sharing your positive experiences with Behrend and the college's key attributes, you can help us to appeal to prospective students. To get started, connect with us on social media:

Collaborate

Behrend's advanced learning opportunities include collaborative spaces and programs that allow you to work alongside our skilled faculty and students on solving the challenge facing your organization—whether working in our innovative makerspace, using our high-tech solutions, or benefitting from the assistance of teams of students. Learn more about our opportunities:

GIve

Giving has been at the heart of Behrend's story from the beginning, when Mary Behrend donated her family's land to Penn State. Today, your generous support, whether privately or through your organization, makes a difference for our students, programs, faculty, and campus. We offer a range of opportunities for financial support including scholarships, in your company’s name or to support your employee’s children, naming opportunities, and even sponsorships.

How to give to Behrend

Invest

Behrend's facilities, programs, and expert faculty make it easy for you to invest in your business. We can help you educate your employees, either through graduate degree programs or workforce training, and give you room for your business to grow in our Knowledge Park. If you're looking for help with research and development, Behrend can help through sponsored research, Fasenmyer Senior Design Projects, and Innovation Through Collaboration projects.