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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.

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. 

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.

Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering businesses and their people to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, Huron creates sustainable results for the organizations they serve.

Ideas for Action is a management consulting firm. Since 1995, IFA has served higher education and nonprofit organizations by strengthening executive leadership performance, guiding thoughtful and disciplined strategic planning and dialogue, assessing and improving organizational culture, engaging faculty governing bodies to improve shared governance and faculty engagement, and providing insight, information, and actionable solutions to leaders across a variety of institutional levels. Their clients call on IFA when they want to develop leaders, define strategy, build consensus, and achieve results.

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. 

Koya Leadership Partners is a leading national retained executive search and consulting firm that partners with mission-driven clients and educational institutions. Since its founding in 2004, Koya has grown to nearly 50 team members across the country. Koya’s team has a genuine passion for, and commitment to, mission-driven work. Koya has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms.

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.

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 Career & Executive Search - Designed for efficiency & flexibility, both the company’s academic executive search and academic career services are high precision but inexpensive. Savings are passed to the client. Executive Search: Six search options offer a solution for every need and budget. The only constant – a unique search process driven by experienced recruiters, researchers and academics guaranteed to attract the ideal candidate. The firm works with the client until they find the right fit. Academic Career Services offers critical insight to aspiring higher education candidates. Together the founders and coaches provide first hand, real life, real world experience combined with nuts and bolts tactics candidates need to achieve career success.

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.

Higher Learning Partners of Regis University has more than 30 years of experience helping higher education institutions, nationally and globally, drive enrollment and revenue growth through course sharing opportunities and quality curriculum and program development services. Higher Learning Partners’ highly skilled team of experts is committed to promoting innovative strategies and best practices while offering fully customizable consortium, program development, and continuing education service options to meet each institution’s strategic goals.

The Voices Group is a coalition of communications experts who have teamed up to train college and university presidents, provosts, and faculty in effective media relations, including op-ed writing and placement, media interviews, and more. The two principals, Pete Mackey and Andy Burness, together have more than 50 years of experience helping educational and other nonprofit institutions sharpen their ideas into an authentic voice and drive change. With Laura Wilcox, founder of WilcoxM3, and Carol Schadelbauer of Burness, they are helping leaders and faculty of CIC-member institutions voice their opinions, strengthen relationships with the media, and leverage the power of print, broadcast, and digital journalism to advance their ideas.

Ad Astra helps institutions graduate more students faster. Partnering with more than 500 colleges, universities, and systems nationwide, Ad Astra helps improve stewardship of instructional resources, streamline student access to courses, and accelerate student completions. Ad Astra's data-informed software and informative consulting services lead the industry in higher education scheduling software solutions.

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.

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.

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.

RH Perry & Associates is one of the most respected and most successful executive search firms serving higher education today. Established in 1974 by Robert H. Perry, RH Perry has completed over 1,100 assignments in its 48-year history, including more than 400 presidential engagements. Headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, their consultants maintain offices in nine states and the District of Columbia. The firm’s higher education practice consists of senior-level executives with a well-balanced mix of college and university leadership experience and executive search expertise. RH Perry’s senior consultants have a combined 250 years of higher education experience.

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.