For External Partners

Many BGSU faculty have established rates of providing technical services and testing to external partners. The established rates are based on usage time and are unique for each Technical Service/Testing. Please review the template Technical Services/Testing Agreement.

Many BGSU faculty have established standardized fee schedules to allow external parties to gain access to certain BGSU research equipment.

The Center for Public Impact (CPI) brings focus to our human and intellectual potential; creating a vision, infrastructure, and programs to drive high impact community and civic engagement priorities in service to the public good. Through programs and initiatives working with faculty and community partners students engage with the community, challenge them to become reflective learners, and engaged citizens.

The Paul J. Hooker Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is in the Schmidthorst College of Business with a mission to establish a preeminent center for entrepreneurial leadership that integrates academic, experiential, and lifelong learning and that actively contributes to economic vitality in the regional economy.

Bowling Green State University aspires to be an institution that is distinguished by the rich opportunities available for students to participate in experiential learning. These opportunities include a range of experiential activities that occur inside and outside of the formal classroom setting. The Career Center oversees a variety of experiences, and many BGSU students from various degree programs complete at least one internship or co-op, because they understand the importance and value.

• The Business Career Accelerator specifically targets the business specializations to help students secure these opportunities.
• The College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering's Cooperative Education program integrates classroom study with work experiences.
• The BGSU Co-op 50 Cooperative Education and Internship Program is a collaborative effort between Bowling Green State University, students, and employers.
  
• Biology undergraduates have completed internships with many organizations and agencies.
• Communication Internships give advanced students an opportunity to gain field experience outside of the university classroom.
  

The Career Center also team provides thousands of employers a variety of recruiting options including job and internship fairs, on-campus interviews, online job postings through Handshake, and more. There are various options described in the Career center page one of them is; The Cooperative Education and Internship Program: is a collaborative effort between Bowling Green State University, students, and employers. The employer provides a safe work environment, supervision, and instruction that helps a student acquire the skills and knowledge needed in their field of study.

The Collab Lab is a hands-on, creative space for students, faculty, staff and community members to engage in collaborative work. Its goal is to support teams of innovators working together to conceive, create, develop and refine new products and services leveraging the unique talents inherent to the University community which is centered on design thinking.

The Master of Public Administration (MPA) program creates talented, rigorously trained professionals that are equipped to address real world problems in the public and nonprofit sectors. The program prepares students for their career through a combination of coursework, research, and experiential learning via public service and client-based projects. Service Learning is an important part of the coursework in BGSU’s MPA program.  Here are some recent examples of service-learning projects undertaken by students in the MPA program.