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TIAA was founded in 1918 to help teachers retire with dignity. That mission grew to include those in healthcare and more, creating reliable income for their futures while they work to make a difference today. Their commitment to doing the right thing—for their customers, employees, and communities—has never wavered, and is why today, TIAA is an industry leader in building financially sound futures.

American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI) is committed to the broad development and support of leadership in higher education by creating and implementing programs and other forms of assistance that enable academic leaders in various administrative positions to be successful in their roles and to advance to higher positions of responsibility. AALI provides leadership identification, development, and support programs through the member institutions and employees of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Council of Independent Colleges. AALI is supported by grants from Academic Search, Inc.

Campus Labs empowers institutions to make valuable connections with their data. The firm offers a complete set of integrated solutions for areas such as assessment, retention, teaching and learning, student engagement, and institutional effectiveness. Campus Labs proudly serves more than 1,400 public and private colleges and universities.

Helix Education provides institutions with a comprehensive suite of technology and services to power data-driven enrollment growth eight times faster than the industry average. The company’s three solutions—outsourced program management, enrollment marketing, and retention services—have successfully helped institutions find, enroll, retain, and graduate post-traditional learners for more than 30 years. 

​Hobsons is a leader in connecting learning to life. Through its unique advising and admissions products, they help more than 12 million students around the globe identify their strengths, explore careers, create academic plans, and find the right college match. They partner with more than 10,000 schools, colleges, and universities to better prepare students for success.

Jenzabar is a privately owned company that delivers cloud-based ERP, SIS, HCM, and other critical solutions and services to higher education institutions of all sizes so they can evolve alongside and adapt to the rapidly changing needs of today’s learners. Jenzabar’s market-leading, award-winning solutions enable colleges and universities to find, attract, and retain their best-fit students. In 2022, Jenzabar acquired Spark451, a full-service marketing and technology firm that provides comprehensive enrollment strategies and support, further strengthening Jenzabar’s goal to empower institutions with the resources and tools to identify and recruit their right-fit students amid changing student demographics. With more than 30 years of experience, Jenzabar supports 1,350+ campuses worldwide with powerful solutions that enable long-term success for both institutions and their students. 

The Learning House, Inc. helps people improve their lives through education. The academic program manager offers a full suite of education services, including Online Program Management, Corporate Solutions, The Software Guild, Learning House International, and Advancement Courses. Built on a foundation of data-driven decision making, thorough market research, and robust technology services, Learning House is focused on delivering high-quality, relevant, timely education services to meet the needs of a dynamic, global market. Through its partnerships, Learning House helps universities acquire more students, produce more graduates, and deliver better outcomes while helping companies attract, develop, and retain a happier, more skilled workforce. 

The Registry is the premier interim placement firm in American higher education. The increasing demand for Registry Interims is being driven, in part, by the need to engage veteran senior administrators and executives who can help institutions to define, to shape, and to achieve a more resilient and sustainable future. While the number of their interim engagements continues to increase at unprecedented levels, colleges and universities are arranging for RAS consulting solutions also provided by their members—all of whom represent the “gold standard” of The Registry.

Academic Keys, founded by a group of academics and administrators in 2002, is a comprehensive academic search firm that supports excellence in Higher Education. The members of Academic Keys, based on experiences participating in academic searches at their colleges and universities, felt that search firm fees were unnecessarily exorbitant. They believe funds are better invested elsewhere- for example, in providing quality education towards an educated citizenry. Academic Keys is dedicated to finding the most mutually beneficial partnerships for their clients. The firm is fully committed to, and embraces, a diverse and international clientele.

Casagrande Consulting, LLC has provided more than 100 institutions of higher education with insight into board, leadership, and compensation effectiveness since their launch in 2009.

Creative Communication Associates (CCA) is a full-service marketing communications and branding agency, specializing exclusively in higher education. From the Ivy League to large public universities to small private colleges to specialty schools, CCA’s nearly 30 years of strategic and creative expertise has built some of the best brands in higher education today. 

Credo has partnered with college and university presidents, cabinets, and boards across critical areas of institutional strategy and operations for more than 25 years. Credo's strategic planning and student success engagements are enriched by in-house leadership, enrollment, financial aid, campus master planning, and architecture expertise. Keeping students always at the center, Credo's action-oriented, results-driven partnerships connect to people and culture as the most powerful vehicles to impact transformational student experiences. Informed by proprietary research on institutional thriving and propelled by a robust team of higher education experts, Credo complements your on-campus talent with external context, strategy, support, and accountability.

EAB helps today’s education leaders solve their biggest problems. The firm starts by forging and finding best practices to address education’s top challenges with research forums dedicated to presidents, provosts, chief business officers, and many other key academic and administrative leaders. The forums provide peer-tested research that speaks to education’s most pressing issues. Those insights are hardwired into each organization with technology and services. Royall & Company division provides data-driven undergraduate and graduate solutions that target qualified prospective students; build relationships throughout the search, application, and yield process; and optimize financial aid resources. The Student Success Collaborative™ combination of analytics, interaction and workflow technology, and consulting helps members support, retain, and graduate more students. The Academic Performance Solutions group partners with university academic and business leaders to help make smart resource trade-offs, improve academic efficiency, and grow academic program revenues.

Emerge Education is a small, boutique online program management company based in Harrisburg, PA. Emerge partners with private, nonprofit, regionally accredited institutions to take programs online and provide instructional design, lead generation, marketing, recruitment, and retention services in a tuition revenue-share model.

Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion, and jobs for all of higher education. Inside Higher Ed has what any administrator or faculty member, grad student, or vice president needs to thrive professionally: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, career advice, and practical tools to advance careers. Inside Higher Ed is a top resource for those in higher education, drawing 1.5 million readers each month, making it the ideal platform to reach a large and diverse audience of influential higher education professionals. 

​Online Consortium of Independent Colleges and Universities (OCICU) is a virtual academic group in which members collaborate in sharing quality online, credit-bearing courses and programs. By utilizing OCICU, member institutions are able to draw upon each other’s expertise in various coursework fields, thus expanding  offerings to their students. Membership is limited to independent, not-for-profit, higher education institutions. OCICU has facilitated the cross-registration of over 22,000 courses in the past ten years. The OCICU arrangement accommodates summer students, traveling athletes, graduating students, low enrollment classes challenges, and alumni. It will also augment the local certificates or offerings with minimum risk. The current OCICU catalog offers more than 1,100 online courses to its members.

Stevens Strategy, LLC is a full-service consulting firm specializing in managing the process of strategic change in colleges, universities, and schools. The firm offers professional services to the leaders of these institutions in the following areas: institutional vision and strategy, strategic organizational leadership, market and program analytics, finance and data analytics, and institution-wide policy manual development. Stevens Strategy’s consultants have extensive experience serving colleges, universities, and schools—including positions as present and former trustees, presidents, faculty members, vice presidents, and other senior staff—each with a particular area of expertise in leadership and management. The firm’s clients include independent and public institutions from the largest universities to the smallest colleges and schools in America and throughout the world. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a leading source of higher education news for campus professionals and top-tier news publications nationwide. Since 1966, The Chronicle has kept readers on the forefront of academic knowledge—with timely news and analysis of academic ideas, developments, and trends.

Art & Science Group, LLC, a Baltimore-based consulting firm, offers market-informed strategy to higher education, independent schools, and the nonprofit sector. Since their founding in 1994, they have provided their clients with strategic market research and recommendations, built on a foundation of both creative thinking and empirical rigor — art and science. Art & Science Group works in a variety of arenas, leveraging a foundation of market data, analysis, and inventive ideas, to guide and advance institutions’ strategic interests and critical investments.

​Edunav provides student academic planning software for colleges and universities. Edunav provides an interactive planner that builds a personalized path to completion for every student. In addition to positively affecting completion rates and time to graduation, it enables institutions to optimize course capacities through the forecasting of courses, sections and departments.

Hyatt-Fennell, Executive Search Plus brings together decades of experience in all facets of higher education to serve their clients in executive search, leadership, and coaching. The Hyatt-Fennell team unites rich experience and diverse backgrounds with a reputation for achieving results on the national and international level. With unique insight into higher-education and through a partnership with its clients, Hyatt-Fennell is committed to recruiting and building leaders of excellence.

Stamats partners with colleges and universities to help leaders envision, articulate and implement strategies to build engagement and drive results. They are marketing experts, story tellers and innovators.

Academic Search is an executive search firm dedicated to serving higher education institutions and related organizations and is the only search firm in the nation with a formal relationship to a premier leadership development program. As the subsidiary of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), Academic Search provides substantial financial support to a number of signature CIC leadership programs, including the Executive Leadership Academy and Senior Leadership Academy, through grants by AALI.