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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.

Ellucian is a software company in the higher education space with offices around the world. Ellucian guides over 2,700 customers in more than 50 countries, improving operations and enhancing the user experience for their faculties, staff, and over 26 million students.

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. 

SAGE Scholars’ Private College & University Enrollment Marketing Consortium provides its nearly 400 colleges and universities ,including several CIC member institutions, with free access to a unique database of students who have expressed interest in attending private college. The families are either saving for college or employed by companies that provide superior benefits, including free Tuition Rewards. Consortium membership is free to colleges. The SAGE database of actively participating students includes more high school seniors than the combined seniors planning to attend four year colleges in the cities of Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Diego.

Sodexo enables universities to thrive amid a campus lifestyle evolution by delivering the industry’s most innovative range of food and hospitality programs. Their services are built on deep student insights and created specifically to build engagement, elevate brands, and enable health and wellbeing. Sodexo tailors their services to the unique needs and goals of an institution through an expert partnership that balances inspired living with unsurpassed value and financial impact, while staying true to their unwavering commitment to sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

​USA Funds is a nonprofit organization that supports Completion With a Purpose, building a more purposeful path for America’s students to and through college and on to rewarding careers and successful lives. USA Funds pursues its nonprofit mission through philanthropic activities and partnerships, policy research, and programs and services that enhance preparation for, access to and success in higher education.

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.

Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates takes an authentic approach to providing strategic and philanthropic consulting services to private colleges and universities. Their 25 years of experience is where their authentic approach first becomes apparent. JGA’s consulting team have been senior advancement officers, leaders of institutions, and philanthropic consultants. Whatever scenario or challenge leaders in higher education face, it’s likely someone on the team has faced it too. JGA’s breadth and depth of experience allow them to serve as thought leaders and openly share their experience and expertise. Every lesson they’ve learned along the way, they bring to the table to become their clients’ strengths.

National Management Resources Corporation was founded in 1978. National provides services exclusively to private institutions of higher learning. Services include physical plant maintenance and repair, custodial, landscape, event planning and setups, security, and construction management. National tailors its services to meet the needs and goals of the clients the company serves. With National, a college can rest assured that its facilities look their best for recruitment, retention, and advancement. 

AGB Search offers executive search, interim search, and compensation evaluation services exclusively for higher education institutions. Founded by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) in 2010, AGB Search has an unmatched understanding of the qualifications critical for effective higher education leadership. Their affiliation with AGB ensures clients receive valued governance, resources, and training, in addition to their highly-regarded search services.

Aramark delivers innovative dining and facility management solutions to create safe, healthy, and dynamic campuses that attract and engage students. As a partner to over 600 higher education institutions, their complete array of dining services includes master planning, culinary development and venue design, catering, concessions, and residential, full service, and express dining concepts. Aramark’s expertise in facilities services covers maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy and engineering solutions, capital project management, and building commissioning.

Berkeley Research Group (BRG)'s higher education team, led by co-founder and chairman David Teece, a renowned academic and chaired professor, and Stefano Falconi, draws on the experience of experts who have devoted their professional careers to the mission of higher education. The team engages in diverse assignments, from working with distinguished but financially distressed institutions to developing strategic expansion plans for universities intent on expanding their global footprints. BRG brings a broad combination of strategic financial engineering, innovative strategies, and extensive experience in change management and operational excellence.

Capture Higher Ed is an enrollment management and marketing firm that helps higher education institutions’ enrollment and advancement organizations make personalized, data-driven, timely and measured connections with prospective students and donors. Powered by the industry’s only behavioral intelligence platform — combining marketing automation, predictive modeling and a managed service approach — Capture’s marketing solutions and expert services are designed to identify, convert, and enroll the right students and attract the right donors for colleges and universities. Founded in 2011, Capture has served hundreds of institutions across the country while being recognized by Inc. 5000 as a fastest-growing U.S. company.

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.

Gonser Gerber LLP partners with college and university leaders who aim to increase their institutions' charitable giving results, enhance their institutional brand, and strengthen the human and financial capacities of their institutions. The firm believes that independent higher education helps promote the most virtuous of human impulses and makes our world more educated, healthy, caring, generous, and equitable for the benefit of all. Since 1950, Gonser Gerber has provided comprehensive advancement and leadership consulting services, professional development solutions, and customized executive search in support of presidents, board members, and advancement leaders at institutions throughout North America.

Hardwick Day, a division of EAB, is the leading source for financial aid optimization, enrollment strategy and net price calculators. The firm fine-tunes financial aid policies, builds award models, and offers full-cycle support to help colleges exceed revenue, recruitment, and enrollment goals.

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. 

Metz Culinary Management is a family-driven, privately owned company that collaborates with its clients to deliver restaurant-inspired hospitality to each and every guest since 1994. By taking the time to learn the needs of those they serve, Metz Culinary Management provides unsurpassed service that exceeds the needs of their guests. In 2020, Food Management Magazine named Metz Culinary Management one of its Top 15 Contract Management Companies in the U.S.

Orbis Education solves health care workforce shortages by creating collaborative partnerships between educators and employers. Orbis partnerships combine the university’s academic expertise, the health care provider’s clinical expertise, and the company’s own substantial program management expertise to drive transformative enrollment growth without sacrificing academic quality. Orbis specializes in managing degree programs for high-demand health care fields, such as nursing and occupational therapy, which also have a significant clinical education component. The company helps academic partners remove the typical barriers to enrollment growth, from lack of capital to constrained faculty resources to the challenge of securing and managing clinical placements. The result is a health care program that attracts quality students, creates more high-quality practitioners to meet employer demand, and provides a sustainable incremental revenue stream for the institution. 

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 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.

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.

Asset Strategy Consultants (ASC), celebrating its 30th year in 2021, continues to provide independent investment advisory services to endowments, foundations, retirement plans, operating reserves, and private wealth clients. With a long history of supporting educational clients, ASC advises on endowment portfolios as well as 403(b) plans for higher-ed. ASC’s thoughtful approach to investing helps manage risk and responsibility for institutions while achieving their individual investment needs and spending goals. Whether it be traditional consulting or an outsourced CIO model, ASC provides fiduciary oversight, education, and governance. In addition, growing 403(b) plans and offering financial wellness is how the firm helps college and university employees.

BCWH collaborates with colleges and universities to assess opportunities to enhance the campus and to design and capture the full potential of an institution's resources. A college or university campus is an eco-system for learning. At every scale, a well-designed campus serves the collegiate community with an environment for interaction, discovery, creation and reflection. BCWH helps institutions achieve that goal.

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.

Collegis Education has been invested in the success of our higher education partners for over 20 years. Their services are informed by their first-hand experience as industry pioneers. With Collegis Education, schools leverage their data and technology to pursue strategic outcomes like enrollment growth, anytime anywhere learning, and a sustainable future.

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. 

Derck & Edson, LLC‘s commitment to higher education is demonstrated through their numerous planning, enhancement, and athletics projects on campuses throughout the United States. The firm’s expertise is demonstrated by the lasting, positive impressions that their work leaves on college and university campuses. Since 1940, the company has been transforming campuses through planning, design, and implementation services that meet the needs of colleges and universities, including: feasibility studies, master planning, athletic facilities design, implementation services, engineering, GIS services, architectural services, site design, circulation solutions, construction observation, inventory and analysis, and identity enhancement. 

Dynamic Campus partners with colleges and universities to maximize the performance of their existing technology investments and IT support teams, ensuring that the institution is optimized for the rapidly-changing needs and goals of students and stakeholders alike. The firm’s proven blend of managed IT services, on-demand technical capabilities, and a vendor-agnostic approach delivers optimized IT performance, better strategic alignment, improved organizational visibility and accountability, lower institutional risk, and a campus IT environment that’s “future ready."

EIIA is a nonprofit, member-driven consortium, committed to protecting the promise of private, faith-inspired institutions of higher education through the delivery of innovative insurance and risk management solutions. EIIA integrates the collective wisdom of their members with industry expertise to achieve a dynamic partnership that generates extraordinary results for property and casualty, employee benefit programs, and student insurance programs. 

EFL Associates is a retained executive search firm established in 1978 with offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Denver, Colorado; and Houston, Texas. The firm offers customized search services to small and large institutions, both public and private, and has assisted more than 200 colleges and universities across the country. The firm’s consultants meet with institutional leadership to develop the list of services that would be most helpful for a particular search and then focus its efforts on fulfilling those tasks. EFL Associates’ distinctive feature is its commitment to meeting the specific needs of its clients. The consultant during the discovery phase of the project is the person who will guide the search through to successful appointment. EFL’s commitment to diversity is well above the industry average with diversity placements in 2015 exceeding 60 percent. The firm’s goal is to provide an efficient and effective process for its client institutions. 

Hastings+Chivetta Architects, Inc. has provided architectural services including master planning, design, and construction oversight for more than 220 collegiate clients in 42 states across the nation. Founded in 1960, the firm is especially proud of the relationships they have strived to forge with their 83 CIC member institutions. Projects with these partners include STEM, student life, student housing, academic, recreation, and athletic facilities. Hastings+Chivetta brings a whole campus perspective to all their planning and design endeavors.

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. 

Miller/Cook Inc. has been providing comprehensive enrollment management services to colleges and universities since 1989. Whether an institution’s goal is determining the extent to which its financial aid policies support its enrollment objectives, revising existing practices to more effectively and efficiently meet enrollment goals, or building a multiple-year, net-revenue model, the professionals at Miller/Cook are available to design a plan that meets an institution’s needs. While their clients’ goals have differed, Miller/Cook has met or exceeded goals at more than 90 percent of partner institutions. Miller/Cook has recently added a new associate team member – Quantum. While print media remains important, Quantum takes direct mail and publication needs to a new level with its customized and measurable smart mail and printing processes. 

​Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC is among the nation's leading advisers to college presidents and boards of trustees. Its services include conducting comparable salary and benefits studies; negotiating and drafting employment agreements; developing deferred compensation plans; and crafting post-presidency agreements. The firm also conducts intermediate sanctions and Sarbanes-Oxley reviews. The firm bases all of its compensation recommendations on current, comparable data as derived from primary sources. 

mStoner, Inc. is a digital-first agency committed to tailored solutions that deliver real results. The company crafts powerful, tailored, human-centric experiences to illuminate clients’ brands and allow them to tell their unique story. mStoner connects their clients with the right audience at the right time to form right-fit relationships. The firm positions teams for improved productivity, sustainable growth, internal alignment, and proof-positive success. mStoner aims to help clients create inspired work that they are proud to show off. Since 2001, mStoner has worked with more than 350 colleges, universities, and professional schools in the U.S. and abroad.

Noelker and Hull Associates, Inc. is a full-service architecture, master planning, and interior design firm providing award-winning design solutions to colleges and universities since 1957. The firm’s experience includes a diverse portfolio of master planning, site planning, feasibility studies, programming, and design, with particular expertise in student housing and dining facilities. The firm’s designs complement the campus community and promote students’ quality of life. The firm executes projects across the United States from its offices in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Frederick, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia. The firm is large enough to undertake any project, but small enough to have few layers of management. Each client works directly with its principals throughout a project. The firm prides itself on cultivating friendly and long-term relationships. Staff members listen, strive to understand clients’ needs, and respond with appropriate design solutions.

​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.

Pioneer College Caterers is a contract dining services company, with an unyielding commitment to service and excellece. Their partnerships are founded on integrity, trust, and a shared mission.

RHB is a marketing and design consultancy serving higher education. The firm has aided more than 125 colleges and universities in their efforts to solve branding, marketing, enrollment, and fund-raising challenges. RHB’s mission to help great causes succeed leads them to market research, strategic planning and creative implementation solutions for institutions. The firm utilizes its experience and expertise to offer informed counsel to college and university presidents regarding differentiated marketing positions, signature experiences, and revenue-generating strategies. RHB also collaborates with the Lawlor Group to generate The Survey of Independent College Presidents, available at www.higheredintelligence.com. Through RHB Insights, the firm writes about and shares its latest thoughts on higher ed marketing to provide clarity and confidence to a higher ed readership that spans the globe. 

Spelman Johnson is a retained executive search firm with a focus on identifying and recruiting outstanding leaders in education, advocacy associations, and social impact organizations.

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.

The Collaborative prides itself on design solutions tailored to each client’s specific needs and context. Rolling into their 50th year, with offices in Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan, the firm is led by seven principals who are hands-on in every project. Their 44-person team is broken down into functional focus areas, creating experts in the areas of design solutions and project delivery mechanics. In the past 25 years, a majority of The Collaborative’s work has been in higher education. They understand today’s trends and pressures, especially the focus on recruitment and retention. The Collaborative’s experience includes 80+ campuses and more than 650 major higher education projects. With this benchmarking knowledge, The Collaborative can provide guidance for translating strategic goals into physical parameters.

​The Lawlor Group, Inc. is a full-service, award-winning, higher education marketing firm that has served over 250 educational institutions, consortia, and associations since its founding in 1987, providing them with market research, strategic counsel, and integrated/interactive marketing communications services (print, web, digital/social, advertising, PR). The firm's core areas of expertise are enrollment management, institutional marketing, and, increasingly, alumni engagement and fundraising (capital campaign consulting, campaign messaging, case statements, annual fund communications, content, etc.). The firm also publishes Lawlor Perspective, a series of white papers for senior management and trustees; and Lawlor Focus, a monthly e-newsletter that explores topics relevant to college presidents and enrollment management, marketing, and communication professionals in higher education. In addition, Lawlor sponsors a series of professional development seminars and symposiums for higher education leaders during the course of the year, including the very popular annual summer seminar.

Yaffe & Company, Inc. can help where boards and executive teams interface, and where data and relationships intersect. The firm’s team is comprised of former presidents of prestigious colleges and universities, and has four decades of experience in helping institutions to thrive and grow. Yaffe & Company are experts in the areas of board effectiveness, executive compensation contracts and performance, IRS compliance, goal-setting and performance evaluation, retirement and retention plan design, succession planning, leadership development, and presidential transition. With the firm’s guidance, the institution’s entire team will have constructive conversations that lead to greater clarity, meaningful outcomes, and positive growth. 

Celli-Flynn Brennan Architects & Planners is a full-service architecture and planning firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in transforming college and university campuses. Since its founding in 1949, Celli-Flynn Brennan’s work at dozens of higher education institutions has led to national recognition in the field, and the firm’s support of CIC over the past 20 years has helped it gain an understanding of the issues facing presidential leaders on campus and beyond. The firm aims to design buildings that support institutional mission, complement the cultural landscape, and promote student recruitment and retention. The company’s portfolio includes every type of building that one would find on a college campus. 

​Emerge Education provides institutions across the country with expertise in adult higher education. Through a thorough on-campus interview and discovery process they partner with institutions to achieve objectives through a collaborative partnership focused on a specific set of services and solutions. Emerge has partnered with Dr. William Drake to assist colleges and universities in accreditation or reaffirmation processes as well as assisting institutions in returning to “good standing” when placed on probation or warning status. Dr. Drake is a former SACSCOC trustee and college president who has chaired and served on over 27 SACSCOC committees and 15 national accreditation committees.

Hunter Global Education, LLC bridges the educational and relational gaps between American and Asian educational institutions. American institutions are now being challenged to enter the global market. Hunter, through a variety of programs and services, seeks to establish long-term income producing programs for its clients. With 50 years of experience with American higher education and with long term established relationships within Asian higher education, Hunter is uniquely positioned to make income producing relationships a reality for institutions. In addition to international program development, Hunter also provides services to garner additional income producing opportunities within the United States.

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.

Kaludis Consulting has provided strategic advice, planning support, and management solutions to more than 700 colleges and universities and related organizations since 1977. The firm’s service portfolio emphasizes strategic, academic, and business planning; institutional economics and finance; and organizational design. Kaludis Consulting provides analysis, perspective, and guidance that enable clients to gain strategic traction in their thinking, planning, and decision making. The firm’s senior consultants have served as Presidents, Provosts, Academic Deans, CFOs, and in senior staff roles in Advancement in higher education.

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.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a full-service law firm with over 400 lawyers and other professionals practicing in 18 offices in seven states. For decades, institutions of higher education have depended on Steptoe & Johnson to help them navigate a changing educational landscape by designing policies and processes that serve to expand opportunities and minimize risk. They apply their broad and diverse experience to enhance colleges and universities’ strategic positions. The firm addresses and remediates active legal matters, as well as provides proactive, long-range guidance.

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.

Witt/Kieffer has been the nation's leader in executive search for education and health care for more than 45 years. Witt/Kieffer ranks among the top executive search firms nationwide and is the single largest firm specializing in senior-level executive search assignments for higher education, health care, and nonprofit organizations. Witt/Kieffer's mission is to identify outstanding leadership solutions for organizations committed to improving the quality of life. Witt/Kieffer clients include major colleges and universities, arts and cultural organizations, national associations, leading hospitals and health systems, physician group practices, sub-acute and long-term care facilities, and managed care and insurance companies.

The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting firm specializing in admissions, financial aid, and retention. They have worked collaboratively with more than 200 colleges and universities to achieve extraordinary outcomes. One of the firm's areas of expertise is working with institutions serving at-risk student populations. Clients have increased the number of new students by as much as 70 percent in one year, grown retention rates by as much as 7 percent in a single cycle, and many have recorded all-time, historic record enrollments.