One company. Many campus relationships. One Salesforce foundation.
Redpath helps universities manage corporate engagement across research, recruiting, philanthropy, sponsorships, innovation, continuing education, and business partnerships — with Salesforce architecture built for real campus complexity.
Built for higher-ed teams that need shared visibility, cleaner handoffs, and measurable partnership outcomes.
Corporate partners do not experience your campus by department.
A corporate partner may work with career services, advancement, research administration, tech transfer, athletics, executive education, and a college dean's office — sometimes all at once.
But inside the university, those touchpoints are often tracked in different systems, owned by different teams, and reported through different definitions of success. That is how strategic partnerships become scattered activity.
One company · many campus relationships
When corporate engagement is fragmented, growth gets harder to coordinate.
The relationship is real and valuable. What is missing is a shared view of it — so the institution can act as one partner instead of a dozen disconnected offices.
01
Competing outreach
Different units may contact the same company with separate asks, timelines, and messages.
02
Lost relationship history
When relationships live with individual staff members, institutional knowledge leaves when people change roles.
03
Unclear partnership value
Leadership cannot easily see the total value of a corporate relationship across research, hiring, philanthropy, sponsorships, and student outcomes.
Corporate engagement touches more of campus than most CRMs are built to handle.
Each touchpoint has its own team and its own work. The job is not to merge them — it is to give everyone a shared view of the same corporate relationship.
Research Partnerships
Track sponsored research opportunities, faculty connections, industry interests, proposals, awards, and outcomes.
Technology Transfer
Connect corporate partners to licensing, commercialization, IP activity, startups, and innovation-office relationships.
Talent & Recruiting
See employer engagement alongside internships, hiring activity, career fairs, experiential learning, and student outcomes.
Partnerships & Sponsorships
Manage sponsorships, naming opportunities, events, advisory boards, and strategic business engagement.
Continuing & Executive Education
Connect corporate learning needs to program interest, employer relationships, workforce development, and revenue opportunities.
Advancement & Corporate Philanthropy
Coordinate corporate giving, foundation relationships, stewardship, and major asks with the broader partnership picture.
Centralized visibility. Decentralized execution.
The goal is not to force every unit into the same workflow. It is to give every team a shared view of the corporate relationship while preserving the work each unit needs to manage.
One shared spine
Conceptual on purpose. The full object model, workflows, and governance live in the blueprint.
What leadership can finally see in one place
- Which companies are active across campus
- Which relationships are strategic
- Which units are engaged
- Which opportunities are moving
- Which outcomes have been achieved
- Where handoffs are needed
- Where outreach needs coordination
The data model is only half the work. The operating model matters more.
Corporate engagement breaks down when the system assumes one owner, one relationship, one pipeline, or one definition of success. Universities need a model that can handle many owners, many touchpoints, many outcomes, and many types of value — financial and non-financial. Redpath helps institutions design the Salesforce architecture, governance, workflows, and rollout path needed to make that model work in real life.
The right help for the stage you are in.
FOR DECISIONS THAT MATTER
Advisory.
Operating model design, readiness assessment, stakeholder alignment, roadmap, governance, data strategy, and architecture planning.
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Implementation.
Education Cloud, Experience Cloud, account hierarchies, engagement tracking, opportunity models, dashboards, integrations, automation, and reporting.
Explore Implementation →FOR PLATFORMS THAT GROW
Managed Services.
Ongoing optimization, release planning, adoption support, dashboard improvements, data stewardship, and cross-campus enhancement planning.
Explore Managed Services →Common Corporate Engagement engagements
Do not start with the whole campus. Start where the model can prove itself.
Corporate engagement is too cross-functional to solve with a big-bang rollout. The better path is focused, visible, and politically realistic.
Pilot-first
Start with one or two collaborative units, prove the value, and use early wins to build campus appetite.
Hub-and-spoke
Create a central Corporate Engagement hub, then connect the highest-value campus spokes: research, career services, advancement, tech transfer, and continuing education.
Campus-wide standard
The long-term goal for mature institutions — but rarely the best place to begin.
Show the full value of corporate partnerships.
A well-built Salesforce model helps leadership see corporate engagement as a portfolio, not a pile of disconnected activities.
Dashboard views
- Executive overview
- Strategic accounts health
- Engagement pipeline by type and unit
- Activity and coverage
- Sponsorship and partnership revenue
- Talent outcomes
- Research and innovation touchpoints
- Data quality and adoption
Metrics worth tracking
Trusted by institutions building serious Salesforce foundations.
Featured engagement
Georgia Southern University
Georgia Southern University and Redpath launched a Salesforce-powered platform to strengthen corporate and industry engagement across campus.
See higher-ed case studies →RESOURCE
Corporate Engagement Blueprint
The deeper architecture — object model, workflows, dashboards, governance, and the implementation detail this page keeps conceptual.
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Higher-ed Salesforce architecture
How research, advancement, and career-services data connect on one foundation across the institution.
Explore higher education →Make corporate engagement easier to coordinate, measure, and grow.
If your institution is trying to manage corporate partnerships across research, recruiting, philanthropy, sponsorships, innovation, and continuing education, Redpath can help you find the clearest Salesforce path forward.