Corporate Affiliates

The Institute of Technical and Scientific Communication (ITSC) at James Madison University developed the Corporate Affiliates Program to form partnerships with information technology firms such as yours.

Investment Benefits

Your firm can benefit from supporting the Institute. We offer:

• Opportunities to meet our students to build professional relationships.
• Use of our Institute's website to list your employment opportunities.
• Collaborative research projects between faculty, students, and your firm.
• Participatory seminars designed specifically for your firm's interests and conducted by our faculty members.
• Public recognition on the ITSC website.
• Communication with ITSC undergraduate and graduate students throughout their academic careers.
• Involvement with departmental organizations including the JMU chapter of the nationally recognized Society for Technical Communication.

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Your Professional and Financial Support

Our commitment to academic excellence produces well-qualified graduates-professional information managers who will contribute to your firm's growth. But we need your support to maintain our efforts. A technical education is expensive because of the unique equipment and training needs. For example, the ITSC has a computer laboratory for our majors. The equipment in the lab must be updated annually so that our students will be able to use the most current information development products.

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How Your Donation Will Help ITSC

Your donation can help us to:

• Purchase new software.
• Improve the training of our faculty.
• Add new technology to our computing facility.
• Send our students to professional conferences to experience and learn the industry's technologies and practices.
• Update and replace outdated technology.

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Join the Partnership

If you wish to join our Corporate affiliates program, please email our program support technician. You can also write at the following address:

Institute of Technical and Scientific Communication
MSC 1803
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA, 22807

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