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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. 

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.

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.

EAB’s mission is to make education smarter and communities stronger. The firm harnesses the collective power of more than 2,100 institutions to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional strategy.

GreenFig partners with colleges to equip students with digital skills and durable experiences to step into careers they will love. The GreenFig platform enables exploration of high-growth business pathways, and the accumulation of digital skills and industry-recognized certifications from applications such as Google, Salesforce, Facebook, HubSpot, and more. Faculty members can explore GreenFig’s high-impact pedagogy and teaching resources and offer students structured, real-world experiences to develop resilient 21st-century mindsets. GreenFig serves leading four-year institutions by bringing powerful new technologies, fresh insights, and best practices to their partner schools.

​Hopelab is a social innovation lab focused on designing science-based technologies to improve the health and well-being of teens and young adults.

​LRAP Association is an enrollment tool that positively impacts enrollment decisions. LRAP (Loan Repayment Assistance Program) helps colleges and universities enroll and retain students who may feel college is unaffordable, by resolving the fear of loans and student debt. If a student’s income after graduation is modest, LRAP helps repay their educational loans. The program covers federal loans, private alternative loans and parent PLUS loans. Students who aren’t stressed about debt are more likely to enroll.

​The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) provides career development, coaching, and mentoring to universities and their faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students through its three services: faculty success programs, membership, and workshops. The Center has more than 170 institutional members, including research, comprehensive, and liberal arts institutions, has conducted more than 400 workshops on campus and at conferences, and has had more than 5,000 faculty participate in the Faculty Success and Pathfinders Programs. Founded in 2010 by a former tenured faculty member, the NCFDD is dedicated to helping universities and their faculty members be more productive, increase external grand funding, and increase faculty retention.

​PeopleAdmin provides cloud-based talent management solutions for higher education. By providing innovative solutions designed to meet the unique needs of higher education, PeopleAdmin enables customers to streamline hiring processes, onboard faculty, manage faculty positions, develop compliant audit trails, and utilize reporting and data-driven predictive analytics.

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.

​VitaNavis (a division of The Myers Briggs Company) offers time-tested and research validated tools to aid all students toward higher levels of awareness and engagement leading to retention and completion in school. VitaNavis is a campus-wide academic career planning and readiness solution dedicated to ensuring that all students have the opportunity to explore all the possibilities in the world of work. This in turn enables action through personality and data-driven results, while guiding education planning conversations across an entire campus.

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.

Acadeum, formerly known as College Consortium, works with CIC colleges and universities committed to sharing high-quality online courses to improve student success. Together, Acadeum and the CIC Online Course Sharing Consortium are unlocking the collective potential of institutions to ensure that all learners have access to the courses they need at the time they need them. More than 200 CIC members now use Acadeum’s cross enrollment platform to improve student retention and completion while increasing institutional revenue.

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.

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.

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. 

​SightLine helps small to medium higher education institutions better understand the data they already have on their campuses. Using data science and algorithms, SightLine predicts student success, makes improvements in financial performance and graduation rates, and creates better engagement with alumni, with no need for software or steep learning curves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

​McAllister & Quinn is a higher education consulting firm that specializes in working with small colleges to secure federal grant funding. The firm is regarded as one of the most effective federal grant and faculty development firms for small colleges and universities. The firm currently represents more than 75 small and mid-sized colleges and has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for scholarships, academic programs, research, and student support services.

The Nelson Mullins School and College law team reaches across disciplines to help clients reach their goals and plan ahead. The firm provides boots-on-the-ground holistic representation for colleges and universities to serve their legal needs. Their education law professionals serve as thought leaders and partners to impact educational policy and advocate best practices. The firm has worked with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies and legislative bodies. They also represent clients before administrative tribunals and federal courts to achieve optimal results for their clients. A small sampling of their work includes strategic guidance, policy development, risk management, litigation and appellate work in areas such as Title IX, civil rights, college athletics, construction, real estate, finance and development, labor and employment, student issues, disabilities, immigration, accreditation, intellectual property, privacy and information security and tax.   

Synergis Education partners with institutions to launch pre-and post-licensure nursing programs and innovative doctoral degrees driven by your institution’s mission, employer trends, and student needs. They bring expertise and resources to colleges and universities that allow them to grow high-in-demand accessible programs. Synergis provides expertise that can assist its partners to engage in smart program design where sequence, pricing, and services create an economically viable program for three groups: the institution, Synergis, and, most importantly, the student.

Ziegler is a privately held investment bank, capital markets, and proprietary investments firm. They specialize in the education, healthcare, and senior living sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance, which generates a positive impact on the communities they serve. Headquartered in Chicago, with regional and branch offices throughout the U.S., Ziegler provides its clients with capital raising, strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income sales and trading, and research.

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.