Program Overview

Bradley's business and non-profit partnerships strive to provide a collaborative and coordinated structure for advancing the educational needs of our students, fostering impactful scholarship, consulting, and service opportunities for our faculty and staff, and developing mutually beneficial relationships with organizations beyond the University.

How it works

With many resources across campus, we will work with you to find the right opportunity or resources for your needs.

We support our business and non-profit partners by:

  • Making our students aware of opportunities beyond the University for experiential learning and community service
  • Leveraging the education, specialized knowledge, and amazing talent of our students through special projects, internships, and job placement
  • Serving as a single point of contact and a source of advice and information for organizations seeking to partner with our many divisions, colleges, school, and offices
  • Accessing the professional expertise, specialized knowledge, and amazing talent of our faculty and staff
  • Assisting with formal and informal partnership agreements

We support our students, faculty, and staff by:

  • Serving as a single point of contact and a source of advice and information for colleagues seeking to connect their students with external partners for real world experience
  • Facilitating additional student opportunities for engagement, special projects, internships, and employment
  • Identifying potentially impactful scholarship, consulting, and service opportunities beyond the University
  • Assisting with formal and informal partnership agreements
  • Helping to ensure partnerships are consistent with Bradley's mission, strategic vision, and policies
ames (Jim) Foley

James (Jim) Foley

Director of Business and Non-profit Partnerships, Bradley University;
Director, Turner Center for Entrepreneurship & Foster College International Programs

    Business and Engineering Convergence Center 1143
    (309) 677-3471
   partnerships@bradley.edu