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Connect With Community and Corporate Friends and Business Experts

Introduction

The External Affairs, Corporate Relations, and Development and Alumni Relations teams are happy to assist you in connecting with community and corporate friends and business experts who can help your students or advance your programs.

We can help you find advisory board members, guest lecturers, mentors, speakers, event sponsors and, in some cases, provide school gifts for your guests.

To get started, take a look at the JSOM Corporate Relations and the UT Dallas Corporate Relations web pages. They offer some useful links and contacts.

We also encourage you to contact us as you begin your search for colleagues and partners.

We will use our institutional knowledge of community and corporate contacts, interests, preferences and prior relationships to your advantage. We can introduce you to experts, executives and other friends who share your interests. We can suggest mutually beneficial collaborations. We can quickly mobilize JSOM resources on your behalf. We can help you negotiate individual companies’ corporate protocol.

We can help, too, with university procedures, which often require that large-scale engagements and funding requests be approved and processed by the campus Office of Communications and/or the Office of Development.

Contacts

Diane McNulty

Diane S. McNulty, PhD
Associate Dean,
External Affairs and Corporate Development
dmcnulty@utdallas.edu | 972-883-2741 | JSOM 4.619

Melissa Bettis

Melissa Bettis
Assistant Dean, Development & Alumni Relations
melissa.bettis@utdallas.edu | 972-883-5128 | JSOM 12.506D

Caylin Blockley

Caylin Blockley
Director, Alumni Relations
caylin.blockley@utdallas.edu | 972-883-5879 | JSOM 12.510C

Catherine Callender

Catherine Callender
Director, Donor Relations and Stewardship
972-883-
catherine.callender@utdallas.edu | 972-883-5148 | JSOM 12.510D

Megan Harrison

Megan Harrison
Director, Corporate Relations
megan.harrison@utdallas.edu | 972-883-3728 | JSOM 12.510B