- Offer educational opportunities for students (both college/university and high school) interested in retailing.
- Provide a source of top-notch student talent for potential employment or internships with retailers.
- Provide a bridge partnership between the worlds of academics and practitioners for the development of future business leaders.
- Develop teaching materials and sponsor programs and events to increase student and professional awareness of opportunities in retailing as well as to better prepare those individuals for entry-level and advanced placement in retailing.
- Instill in the retailing community, the values, perspectives and skills needed to become successful in the industry.
- Excite partners, faculty and students to identify and meet the current challenges faced by retailers; and to anticipate and develop strategies for future success.
- Provide retailing professionals a resource for retailing research and development.
- To provide retailers and faculty a solution for the development and execution of programs that partner academics with practitioners.
- To create an overall positive impression of retailing and the retail industry
- To assist in issues of accreditation for colleges and universities.
In addition to offering the above opportunities, the Center will also provide a mechanism for the creation of corporate partnerships.