Strategic Corporate Partners (SCPs)– a world class initiative that engages SCP executives in the PPEC with university leadership along with practicing professional and recent retiree alums with students, faculty, and staff in a variety of experiences throughout the undergraduate experience. The goal is to leverage the faculty curricular Professional Practice Program and co-curricular Student-centered Professional Practice Scholars (SPPS) initiatives to create new higher education/industry partnering standards in collaboration with the FPPC, SPPC, SDSC and PPEC action councils. Each SCP would designate the lead to coordinate appropriate teams of alums to collaborate with each of the four action councils. This would provide an alternative to traditional university Corporate Partner/Affiliate Programs that tend to treat corporate partners as donors or sponsors of university-developed programs that typically provide various levels of access to faculty and students. This is also an alternative to the traditional twice per year advisory board meetings which typically consist of a lunch, a 40 minute power point presentation, and 1-2 hours of discussion on a small number of topics. This alternative relationship with corporations will succeed in adding value for the corporations, fostering their engagement. By engaging corporate investor/partners in creating sustainable innovations and programs that foster and support student-centered active learning, The University would immediately enhance existing corporate relationships and develop new ones, for example, an alumni chapter would be established within each SCP.