Industry partners are welcome to do presentations at our campus to describe their corporate environment, products, and processes for hiring. You can also do technical presentations which is relevant to your business.  

Many classes in the CS/IT/CYBER curriculum deal with rapidly changing technologies. Volunteering as a guest speaker in a class improves the quality of the class by presenting the viewpoint of an industry expert on cutting-edge technologies

Providing a tour of your facilities is an excellent method for generating interest in your company and to meet students who may be good candidates for interns or permanent employees. Moreover, the students will also get exposure to the real working environments.

The Department has developed course outlines and tentative schedules for each course. As industry experts, you can provide guidance as to the relative importance of various course elements (or any omissions) in the context of working professionals. Since you work on real products, you have insight of suitable tools and techniques that would be very valuable to our instructors and students.

As industry professionals work on real problems and products and use various tools and techniques to complete your tasks efficiently, your insight on suitable software and hardware tools would be very valuable to our instructors and students.

As industry experts, you have experience with real-world problems. Providing outlines of the real-world problems to be used as case studies or the bases for the capstone projects would help to improve the quality of our curriculum. Completion of practical industry-based assignments would also help our students to become more effective employees.

We are always looking for qualified instructors to teach the industry standards and new technologies in the special topics classes. As industry experts, you are in an excellent position to pass your skills on to our students. You will also have the opportunity to evaluate possible interns or permanent employees.

Internships provide the students with the opportunity to learn teamwork, communication skills, and industry standards while working on real-world projects.   UNCP Computer Science encourages all our majors to seek internships while pursuing their degree programs. Company partners have the opportunity to evaluate potential employees and develop relationships with them towards possible permanent employment.  

Your company’s involvement with the Advisory Board means that students are already familiar with your brand before they start looking for a permanent position. Students may be recruited through email, promotional materials posted in the University, or company presentations.   

The majority of our students come from all walks of life and rely upon financial aid in order to pursue their degrees.   If your company would be interested in supporting one-time, on-going or endowed scholarship or award, you could make a big difference in the lives of many students. A one-time scholarship or award is a great way to determine if your company is interested in this kind of support. Endowed scholarships and awards also increase the visibility of your company to the student community.  Award opportunities are advertised throughout the year to the students, and the department’s scholarship and award committee would evaluate potential applicants and select the awardee according to your requirements. The presented awards will be posted to the department website.

As a state-supported institution, the Department is always in need of funds to improve teaching and research space.   If your company would be interested in funding the renovation of a research or teaching lab, the Department would work with the University to provide naming rights to the room. Named facilities greatly increase the visibility of your company to the students. 

Endowment funds may be used to fund a professor for summer research work or to modify their teaching load to allow for more time spent on research activities. Endowed professorships are listed in the catalog and department website providing increased visibility for your company.