(New) Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers

Penn St (11/11) - NACRO is a network of corporate relations professionals from research universities, including Tanna Pugh from the Industrial Research Office, dedicated to providing its members with best practices that further enable the development of mutually beneficial relationships with industry. As corporate philanthropy and R&D evolves toward increasingly collaborative activities, NACRO will aid in defining these roles. As corporations expand globally but work locally, they seek the “front door” to an academic institution that a university corporate relations office can provide. Membership in NACRO is limited to staff of four-year institutions of higher education (with a focus on research universities) who devote at least 50% of their time to corporate/industry relations. The next annual meeting will be hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 12 and 13, 2010. www.nacro.us