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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. 

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.

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. The company’s mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals. Through Anthology Intelligent Experiences and over 60 SaaS products and services, Anthology advances learning in partnership with education, business and government institutions. Tapping into this unmatched portfolio of solutions, only Anthology can leverage data from across the EdTech ecosystem to create intelligent experiences that lead to better outcomes.

Campus Prevention Network by Vector Solutions consists of 1,200 colleges, universities, and national fraternities/sororities, reaching over 5M students, staff, and faculty with digital training on topics like substance misuse, sexual assault and harassment, diversity and inclusion, and mental wellness.

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.

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.

Gray Associates provides the only academic Program Evaluation System: PES+. PES+ combines data, software, and facilitated workshops that enable institutions to make data-informed program decisions that strengthen campus relationships. Unlike labor data suppliers, PES+ includes current, local data on student demand, plus jobs and skills for over 1,500 academic programs. It provides internal dashboards on program economics, academic performance, and diversity. PES+ enables collaborative, data-informed program evaluations that improve enrollment, financials, and DEI.

​Nearpeer improves enrollment, student engagement, wellness, and inclusion. The firm’s Peer Engagement Platform connects students academically and socially with their peers in a private, virtual community that is focused on authentic, 1:1 peer connections between students. Nearpeer’s unique approach serves all students, with special focus on introverted and less confident students who are at higher risk of loneliness and isolation. They also have demonstrated outsized impact with underrepresented populations’ sense of belonging. Nearpeer’s impact on their partners’ enrollment yield, melt, and persistence deliver over $1 million per year in higher tuition revenue.

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.

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.

The Virtual Care Group (VCG) provides holistic medical and mental wellness solutions for students. Numerous CIC campuses are already utilizing their unlimited telemedicine, teletherapy, life coaching, and on-demand crisis counseling services. VCG can provide access to an entire campus (or a selected group of students) in one business day with affordable telehealth, telemental health, or both. VCG partners with schools to supplement existing health services or to create a virtual wellness center. VCG uses Board-certified physicians and licensed counselors to care for students, 24/7.

Pharos Resources, LLC provides a comprehensive approach to improve student outcomes. Their unique software and approach will strengthen early alert, student care, and retention on campuses. Their relationship-focused perspective allows colleges to identify at-risk students, eliminate campus silos, increase student engagement, and enrich the culture of student success.

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.

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.

​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. 

​The National Student Clearinghouse has been education’s trusted data partner and nonprofit for over 25 years. Education leaders rely on the Clearinghouse’s unique national student data resources to understand student pathways and outcomes in order to help students succeed. Their newest service, the Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP), provides better access, to better data, for better results so that every student can thrive.

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.

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.