Help build the next generation of responsible campus creators
College Creator Academy gives brands, campuses, athletic departments, and community organizations a more credible way to support student creators.
The model is simple: partners help fund learning, practical challenges, and pathways — not access to students.
A Founding Brand Challenge can include:
- Support for a College Creator Lab cohort
- One carefully scoped creative challenge
- A workshop, office hour, or industry conversation
- Participation in a final showcase
- An anonymized learning and outcomes summary
- A separately negotiated option to license selected student work
Our student-first commitments
- Students keep their accounts, content, and intellectual property
- Students are not required to promote a sponsor to participate
- Student contact information is not sold or handed over
- Partners do not receive blanket rights to all student work
- Any paid creator engagement is optional, separately contracted, properly disclosed, and fairly compensated
- CCA does not promise placements, income, audience growth, or endorsements
Partnership opportunities
- Founding Brand Challenge
- Campus Creator Lab
- Athlete Creator and Media Readiness cohort
- Workshop or guest-expert session
- Local business creator challenge
- Research and learning partnership
How partnership works
- Start a conversation — tell us about your brand and the students you want to reach.
- Scope a challenge together — one brief, clear guardrails, student protections agreed up front.
- Run the pilot — the challenge runs inside the Lab’s six weeks with CCA facilitation.
- Receive the outcomes summary — an anonymized learning and outcomes summary and a debrief on what students built.
Who we are approaching first
Founding partnership conversations are focused on technology and telecom, beauty and personal care, retail and apparel, food and beverage, financial services, and gaming and entertainment.