About Strategic Partnerships
We aim to enhance your experience with the University of Arizona while maximizing your reach across campus.
The Office of Strategic Partnerships is designed to help partners solve business challenges, showcase your brand to university audiences, explore targeted philanthropic opportunities, develop talent pipelines, and evoke reciprocal value for both the partner and the university. Let’s work together to harness the power within the University of Arizona.
How It Works
The Office of Strategic Partnerships works with you to build meaningful business relationships with the University of Arizona. We facilitate important connections to our Wildcat community, breaking down barriers to partnership success.
We use a collaborative, coordinated approach to understand how your business needs can be achieved through a campus partnership. Once goals are identified, we bring campus units together to create a unique opportunity aligning your brand with ours.
While maintaining the university’s mission and core values, we offer the ability to establish a single point of contact that brings individual campus units together for a comprehensive opportunity. The office works with you to create the custom sponsorship details, unlocking engagement across Arizona students, staff and alumni.
Whether you are looking to access our talent pipeline, build brand alignment, or engage with our breadth of campus stakeholders, the Office of Strategic Partnerships can help you navigate the university ecosystem seamlessly and cohesively.
What We Do
Support for Business Partners
Innovative Partnership Development:
We facilitate innovative opportunities for partnership with the University of Arizona, a globally renowned public university with a diverse academic landscape, including 53,000+ students, 15,000+ employees and 150+ majors.
Student Engagement Initiatives:
We provide avenues for business partners to interact with students, encompassing internships, scholarships, recruitment events, research projects, and various on-campus activities.
Centralized Partnership Coordination:
As a single point of contact, we facilitate the establishment of partnerships across the University of Arizona, and its numerous administrative and academic units.
Support for University Units
We are happy to serve as a resource as you engage and develop corporate sponsorships that support your area of campus.
Campus and Partner Connection:
We connect campus units with potential business partners, fostering meaningful, campus-wide relationships that generate new revenue streams and valued services.
Proposal Development:
Our team provides guidance in the development of your units’ sponsorship proposals. This includes determining and defining assets, how to tell your partnership story and building of a valuation model.
Agreement Fulfillment and Relationship Management:
We confirm the successful fulfillment of agreements and manage long-term relationships with partners, sustaining the university’s commitment to excellence and collaboration.
Third-Party Branding Guidelines
Please visit the Marketing and Communications Brand website here for information and branding guidelines for campus units and third-party logos.
University Units
The Office of Strategic Partnerships is happy to serve as a resource as you engage and develop corporate sponsorships that support your area of campus.
We encourage you to connect with our office to learn more about sponsorships on campus, university guidelines, access to toolkits, and the overall sharing of information to inspire collaborative efforts. Visit the Marketing and Communications Brand website for additional information.
Meet the Team
Courtney Spector
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Email: cmall@arizona.edu
Courtney leads the Office of Strategic Partnerships, bringing campus units together to drive sponsorship opportunities and advance the university’s mission. Courtney works with partners to understand their goals when vetting a university sponsorship and provides seamless connections across campus in which the partner has identified as part of the partnership strategy. She works diligently to align partner goals with university resources to build compelling proposals and bring dynamic partnerships to life.
Courtney brings 10 years of experience building strategic marketing plans and advancing sponsorship development with Arizona Wildcat Sports Properties and the Los Angeles Rams. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Management and M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Our Values
Who we are and what we stand for.
INTEGRITY
Be honest, respectful and just.
COMPASSION
Choose to care.
EXPLORATION
Be insatiably curious.
ADAPTATION
Stay open-minded and eager for what's next.
INCLUSION
Harness the power of diversity.
DETERMINATION
Bear Down.