We (Workantile in Ann Arbor) offer discounted student memberships, although we don't push them very hard. We have three student members currently, a law student and two School of Information grad students from the University of Michigan. They have become valued members of the community.
Another space in town, the Tech Brewery <http://www.techbrewery.org/>, which is really a tech startup incubator and coworking facility rolled into one, has a close relationship with the university, and has quite a few students either interning at one of the companies housed in the space, or house startups begun by recent grads. Quite a few of our members are trailing spouses - people who are in Ann Arbor because their spouses/significant others are doing grad or postdoc work at Michigan. Most of the trailing spouses are remote employees who would much rather be at Workantile than working at home or in coffee shops. The others are freelance consultants, software jocks, or whatever. We are planning to try to work with the university to get them to refer trailing spouses to us, since the ones here already find our community so valuable and we think this can be a real selling point for the university as it tries to attract top talent to its grad schools. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > I know of more than a handful of coworking spaces that have developed > partnerships with local universities. Have any worked directly with the > student population? Success/failure stories to share? > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- twb member, Workantile Exchange <http://workantileexchange.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
