The NSF-EPIIC program is empowering universities to strengthen collaboration with industry through tailored workshops that demystify how to build and sustain partnerships. Four institutions, including Santa Clara University, have already launched these efforts and are developing campus-specific action plans.
At small colleges like Albion College, the EPIIC-supported “Connect Four” cohort is building regional industry partnerships through modules like interdisciplinary consulting teams, networking, and infrastructure-reforms that embed partnership activity into institutional culture.