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RIT is an international leader in career education and applied research that provides corporations with rich, multi-dimensional opportunities for collaboration. Our corporate partners support many important new initiatives across the entire institute, particularly in emerging areas such as microsystems, bioinformatics, and optoelectronics. Whether a Fortune 500 company, a regional niche market leader, or an entrepreneurial company, corporate partners receive an excellent return on their investment when they partner with RIT.
Partnerships are most successful with companies that have a mutual alignment of strategic direction and goals as RIT. We also seek to build partnerships that have the potential to contribute across many dimensions of partner activities, including co-operative education positions, research support, curriculum advisement, and philanthropy. Both RIT and the company should have a champion interested in developing a partnership, and there should be a willingness to commit the resources for a strategic partnership on both sides.
To learn more about how RIT’s Corporate Partnerships can work for your company, visit these Partnership Management Group sites:
Corporate Research
Cooperative Education and Career Services
Just Some Of Our Partners
Xerox
Xerox has a long tradition of supporting RIT’s greatest needs at critical times in our growth. The company is a leading research partner in microsystems, imaging science, information technology and color science, and has supported the largest single scholarship at RIT, the Xerox Scholars program, for more than a decade. Xerox is also a founding partner of the Printing Industry Center at RIT, a Sloan Industry Center dedicated to the growth and profitability of the printing field. Recent support from Xerox, will allow RIT to increase interaction between its faculty and researchers and Xerox engineers and scientists in microsystems, imaging science, document production and management, and sustainable design engineering. RIT will also introduce and develop training programs and academic offerings in key areas of technology and skill utilization that enhance leadership and graduate management programs. Together, Xerox and RIT will continue working to develop the best students for career opportunities at Xerox supporting mutual commitment to diversity.
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Redcom Laboratories
Supporting RIT makes good business sense – just ask the management of Redcom Laboratories in Victor, NY. A global design and manufacturing company specializing in digital telecommunications systems, this customer-driven company maintains diversified product lines and serves a balance of markets to ensure that business, economic, and technological changes don’t negatively impact their financial strength. As an employer of both co-op students and many RIT graduates, Redcom finds many advantages to partnering with RIT through programs such as the Telecommunications Engineering Technology program in CAST, the College of Business programs – especially our MBA program, and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering programs. Over the last decade, Redcom has provided support to the Institute through gifts of equipment and funding to these programs.
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McAfee
As a leader in system and network security, McAfee, Inc. holds a special interest in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion prevention solutions formed a partnership with RIT as the university launched a new master's program in computer security and information assurance. McAfee donated more than $1 million in next-generation intrusion prevention technology to the Golisano College. In addition, engineers from McAfee have participated in the annual computer security competition, Build and Defend Your Digital Fortress at RIT, in which computing students are exposed to real-world types of computer security threats and challenged to subvert the attacks.
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