CREATING MEANINGFUL AND LASTING PARTNERSHIPS Corporate and foundation partners help advance Indiana State University by providing important resources and opportunities for programs, faculty and students. During the 2021 fiscal year, these partners generously provided significant cash and in-kind donations to ISU.
“As technological advances lead to changes “The insurance industry—and especially within the sector, it’s vitally important that the in the Midwest—is not very diverse. By industry supports the education and training helping grow the pie, we won’t be just of young people as we drive to develop and trying to solve for Gibson, but rather we’ll inspire the packaging experts of the future. We be introducing more diversity into the strongly believe in investing in the future of our industry as a whole.” industry and have supported schools across — Tim Leman, ’00 the country in this way for a number of years now. We’re delighted to be able to continue that Tim is the Chairman and CEO of Gibson. The with this latest significant donation in kind.” company has two scholarships at the University — Melissa Plemen, Sr. Director of that support the University’s Insurance and Risk Inside Sales and Marketing, Esko Management Program. For the 2021-22 academic Esko, a global developer of integrated software and hardware solutions for the packaging industry, provided a multi-million-dollar in-kind gift of package engineering technology software to Indiana State. For the next three years, Esko will provide 50 software licenses to industry-leading programs. The partnership will keep ISU students on the cutting edge of the profession and promote a skilled workforce for Esko customers. ISU’s program has a 100 percent placement rate into jobs after graduation. This partnership continues the company’s two decades of support for the program.
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year, the company refocused the scholarships to prioritize supporting minority and female students in the insurance and risk management program. The refocus of both funds will augment ISU’s new recruitment and career awareness diversity program in insurance and risk management.
