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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. Our commitment to doing the right thing—for our customers, employees, and communities—has never wavered, and is why today, we’re an industry leader in building financially sound futures.

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.

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.

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. National helps make colleges and universities look picture perfect all of the time.

​Encoura believes that education is the transformative catalyst for individual success and community potential. For nearly 50 years, the mission at Encoura® (formerly known as NRCCUA®) is to empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals. They provide custom technology solutions that combine Eduventures® thought leadership research, data science, strategic enrollment services, and multi-channel marketing to serve over 2,000 higher education institutions. Their partners benefit from their focus on encouraging students to find their path, while also helping high schools, colleges, and universities better serve students to significantly improve outcomes.

Gonser Gerber LLP partners with college and university leaders who aim to increase their institution’s 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.

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.

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.

Sodexo, a leader in quality of life services, is committed to enhancing the learning environment on campus. By focusing on quality of life services, the company reinforces the overall experience of campus life, which in turn improves its partners’ effectiveness and performance. From designing meals around lifestyle needs to designing buildings for increasing enrollments, its commitment to providing students and staff a nurturing learning environment spans the entire campus experience. 

The Registry is the nation's leading firm in the interim executive space. It is the only membership-based interim placement firm, which provides a business model that preempts the need for expensive, time-consuming, and potentially disruptive open-market interim searches. Over the last quarter-century, the Registry has defined and institutionalized "best practices" for the engagement of interim executives. Now with over 1,000 members, the Registry is prepared to respond to the interim needs and requirements of colleges and universities in every sector and throughout the nation. The Registry can immediately generate interim candidate pools for presidents/chancellors, all cabinet positions, and deans. Most importantly, the Registry provides the very best interim talent, and its members continue to achieve the very best results for their college and university clients.

Wiley Education Services is a leading, global provider of technology-enabled education solutions to meet the evolving needs of universities, corporations, and ultimately, learners. Wiley partners with more than 70 institutions across the U.S., Europe, and Australia, and supports over 800 degree programs. Their best-in-class services and market insights are driven by deep commitment and expertise—proven to elevate enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

AE7 Architects & Planners is a planning and architecture firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Jacksonville. AE7 works with their clients to help them maximize the value of their campus real estate. Their team works with administrative teams to assure that campus facilities are being utilized to their fullest potential, through space utilization studies, facility audits, and campus master plans. AE7 helps to create a student experience that fosters academic growth, encourages student engagement, provides for their mental well-being and safety, and creates long-lasting memories.

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.

​Beck Design is an award-winning architectural firm with a national reputation for creating unique design solutions that meet the special demands of their clients. At the core of their work is the passion for imaginative solution-minded design that adds value to land, buildings, and people’s lives. The team is known for their collaboration with clients and consultants, specializing in the design and planning of higher educational facilities and highly technical spaces. Beck Design is comprised of a group of talented professionals located in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and New York City. Beck can provide master planning, fundraising, renderings, interior design, architectural design, and promotional support materials to aid with supporting the project every step of the way.

Blue Moon Consulting Group (BMCG) is a boutique consulting firm focused on higher education. They provide insight, counsel, and experience to help colleges and universities effectively manage real-time response to significant issues and crisis events. BMCG also helps institutions mitigate issues and avoid crises altogether through the development of proactive crisis management, crisis communications, emergency management, and business resiliency plans, and by conducting training, exercises and leadership sessions.

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.

Capture Higher Ed is a leading enrollment management and marketing firm that helps higher education institutions make personalized, data-driven, timely and measured connections with prospective students. 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 for colleges and universities. Capture generates the industry’s strongest enrollment outcomes for client institutions, from hitting application targets to achieving net tuition goals.

Collegis Education serves as a catalyst for their partners’ success by providing the expertise, best practices, technology, and insights necessary to help tackle today’s challenges and prepare for the future. With over 25 years’ experience, Collegis Education provides comprehensive technology-enabled services to help grow enrollments, deliver high-quality learning experiences, manage the technology ecosystem, and inform strategic decisions.   

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.

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 provides a proven blend of managed IT services, on-demand technical capabilities, and a vendor-agnostic approach to help colleges and universities maximize the performance of their existing technology investments and IT support teams.

EY-Parthenon, in combination with the broader EY organization, has served as an advisor to the global education sector for over 20 years, completing more than 900 projects across 80 countries. By working across the public and private sector, their teams are in a unique position to observe both the supply and demand sides of education, and to monitor education trends as they play out on a local and global level. EY-Parthenon offer their clients a suite of capabilities, from strategy through implementation and across several sub-sectors including: K-12 systems and schools, higher education and workforce development, education service providers, and education transactions.

Ferrilli is a higher education technology services company founded in 2002. The company believes that technology alone is not enough and that relationships are at the heart of what they do. Their experts stand by, as support should never end because security is never secondary. Ferrilli continues to evolve with higher education. The company fills a variety of roles—such as leadership, managed services, strategic consultation, and technical support—and remains objective to improve operational efficiencies and to ensure students and strategy align and support the higher educational system. Ferrilli is a technical services company that shares goals for institutional and student success.

​Gray Associates provides higher education institutions with the data, advanced analytical tools, and rigorous research they need to forecast decisions, assess the competition, and model economics. Gray’s exclusive data analytics tools and unparalleled analysis provide academic institutions with deep strategic insight.

Jenzabar is a leader in delivering modern ERP, SIS, and data analytics solutions to higher education institutions around the world. Created out of a passion for education and driven by a vision of technology innovation, Jenzabar’s comprehensive suite of cloud-based solutions and services gives institutions the state-of-the-art functionality required to address the needs and expectations of today’s modern, digital-savvy students. With over 30 years of experience, Jenzabar supports more than 1,300 campuses worldwide with intuitive and powerful offerings than enable long-term success for both institutions and their students.

​MARKETview Education Partners (formerly Farrell Day) is an education technology company that delivers decision-grade analytics on demand so that higher education leaders have the intelligence and context they need to succeed. With a rapidly growing base of college and university partners and over 35 million student records in their platform, MARKETview reveals how college-bound student behavior is shifting in real-time, helps partners understand how their institution compares to cohorts of similar schools and across hundreds of data dimensions, and continually illuminates opportunities for focus and investment amid the rapidly changing landscape of higher education.

​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.

Pearl Meyer advises boards and senior management on the alignment of executive compensation with business and leadership strategy, making pay programs a powerful catalyst for value creation. Their industry experts focused exclusively on the higher education sector have helped hundreds of colleges and universities achieve their objectives.

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. 

​Westfall Gold has served institutions of higher education since its founding in 2002. Their model deepens relationships with strong financial partners, is consistent in reactivating lapsed givers, and is a very successful donor acquisition tool. Westfall Gold’s model strategically accelerates the relationship with high net worth and ultra high net worth families and creates a community of like-minded individuals who are moved to deeply engage financially and emotionally with the institution’s mission. A three-and-a-half day experience integrating the best practices in fundraising management consistently outperforms all other major donor strategies in cultivation time and effectiveness.

Ziegler provides its higher education clients with private placement structuring, capital raising, public private partnership structuring, strategic advisory services, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, for both rated and non-rated bond issues. The higher education practice complements Ziegler's other business lines in the healthcare, senior living and education sectors, allowing us to leverage our unique expertise in complex credit structures and financial advisory services. Through the practice, independent colleges and universities can learn what their competitors are doing, keep abreast of market trends, and take advantage of new financing opportunities.

AGB Search, LLC focuses exclusively on higher education leadership. The firm identifies interim appointments to preserve continuity, offers full search services to help institutions navigate the hiring process, provides transition assistance to set up leaders for long-term success, and offers compensation evaluation services to assess fair, competitive salaries. Each member of the consulting team brings years of experience as a higher education leader to the firm. AGB Search not only understands the demands of leadership, but also is deeply invested in supporting the next generation of leaders. 

Ardeo Education Solutions is a public benefit company dedicated to increasing access to the life-changing impact of higher education. Ardeo’s Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) positively impact enrollment decisions, helping institutions provide a powerful benefit to students who may feel financially shut out. If a student’s income after graduation is modest, their LRAP will help repay their student loans, including federal student, private alternative and parent PLUS loans. 

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.

AVI Foodsystems, Inc. is a family-owned and operated foodservice company founded by John Payiavlas in 1960. His son Anthony now serves as CEO and president, continuing his father’s tradition of responsible and sustained growth serving leading education, business, healthcare, and leisure and entertainment institutions across the United States and Canada. Today, AVI Foodsystems is the largest family-owned foodservice company in the United States with over $800 million in revenue. The firm has always been driven by core values that define who they are and how they act: integrity, excellence, Innovation, relationships, sensitivity toward people, sensitivity toward society, family, passion, customer and guest focus, and accountability.

BKD CPAs & Advisors provides audit, tax, compliance, and consulting services to higher education institutions nationwide, which can translate into practical, experience-based insight. From keeping up with evolving technologies and educational trends to evaluating whether the programs institutions offer benefit their reputation and bottom line, how campus leaders respond to their dynamic environment is important.

Brown, Hendrix & Associates has been reengineering consulting for more than twenty years, providing IT transformation, management, planning, and business process analysis. Each of their consultants brings extensive higher education and business background to every engagement. The firm was established to help colleges and universities adapt and thrive in the shifting sands of funding, new career opportunities, uncertain economies, and the ever-changing student population. Their clients should expect to engage only senior consultants with vast experience, working to perform such activities as strategic planning, contract negotiation, major transformational change, and staff development.

​C&W Services helps institutions of higher learning lower facility overhead costs, improve efficiencies, and ensure campuses are a fitting reflection of their heritage. For over 65 years C&W Services has been raising the value of campus services for some of North America’s leading colleges and universities.

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.

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 programs. 

​Flywire has been solving complex payment problems for students and education institutions since 2011. Today, they are the trusted choice of millions of students, thousands of institutions, and hundreds of education agents and partners worldwide. Backed by their powerful global payment network, first-class security, and around-the-clock multilingual support, Flywire’s comprehensive receivables solution delivers on life's most important moments by enabling institutions to seamlessly receive and reconcile payments from anyone, anywhere in the world–at any time.

Goff Public is a full-service communications agency based in Minnesota that helps colleges and universities across the country protect and enhance their reputations. They offer media and spokesperson training and coaching; communications strategy and planning; issues management; 24/7 crisis response; media relations and storytelling; and communications and planning for high-profile events.

Hanover Research, a leading research and analytics firm, helps institutions of all sizes and types tackle critical academic, marketing, and administrative challenges. Their experts develop customized plans using multiple research methodologies to deliver the insights institutions need to make informed decisions. In addition to their custom research, Hanover’s members also work with them to submit more competitive grants, develop a grant-seeking culture and competency, find the right grant opportunities, build relationships that lead to funding, and strategically position their programs and grants operations.

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.

Hunter Global Education, LLC bridges the educational and relational gaps between American and Asian educational institutions. American institutions that once served local and regional needs are now being challenged to enter the global market. But how? Hunter, through a variety of programs and services, aims to establish long-term income producing programs for its clients. Through its long history in Asia and its special pathway programming, Hunter has established successfully long-term relationships that provide the platform for developing partnerships and income producing programs for American institutions with Asian institutions.

Huron is a global professional services firm committed to achieving sustainable results in partnership with its clients. The company brings depth of expertise in strategy, technology, operations, advisory services, and analytics to drive lasting and measurable results in the health care, higher education, life sciences, and commercial sectors. Through focus, passion, and collaboration, Huron provides guidance to support organizations as they contend with the change transforming their industries and businesses. 

Hyatt-Fennell, Executive Search is a highly successful national and international executive search firm. The firm includes a strong support staff and excellent senior consultants who are rich in higher education and recruitment experience. Hyatt-Fennell is well-known and respected for placing top executives with private colleges and universities. Through a partnership with its clients, Hyatt-Fennell enhances and streamlines the search process and provides a commitment to find the perfect person for each position. Hyatt-Fennell brings over 60 years of experience to the process of client-centered service.

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. 

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. Our 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. We also represent clients before administrative tribunals and federal courts to achieve optimal results for our clients. A small sampling of our 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.   

Parkhurst Dining is a chef-driven contract dining company focusing exclusively on private higher education and corporate dining. They prioritize creating smiles through great food – that’s their passion and core competency.  Parkhurst Dining cultivates personal relationships and customizes dining programs to deliver the highest quality food and service reflective of each partner’s individual culture. They have an exceptional retention rate and believe it is a result of their dedication to genuine partner relationships.

Partners Development is a national provider of diversified real estate development services. The firm has built a solid reputation with decades of project performance, specializing in comprehensive facilities development and project management for private, independent colleges and universities. Partners’ resume includes administrative, academic, athletic, fine arts, lab, and residential facilities. Utilizing proven turn-key development methods, Partners assures that campus facility projects are completed on time and within the established budget.  

Pioneer College Caterers has been serving faith-based campuses exclusively, nationwide, since 1973. They have an unyielding commitment to relationships founded on integrity, trust, and a shared mission.

The RW Jones Agency is a full-service strategic communications firm hyper-focused on higher education. They understand the challenges and opportunities that independent colleges and universities face. From complex issues management counsel to the proactive development of distinctive message strategies, the RW Jones Agency knows how to help presidents and institutions develop and implement successful communications strategies. Their strategists are experts in national media relations, issues management communications, and campus communications. The RW Jones Agency has been dedicated to serving the education space for more than 30 years.

​Scott Healy & Associates (SH & A) is one of the most trusted names in higher education consulting, conducting national searches in enrollment management and health sciences. Founded as a veteran-owned consulting firm in 1998, SH & A has successfully conducted more than 260 enrollment management and 110 health sciences national searches with remarkable success. The firm has also placed more than 75 enrollment management professionals in interim positions throughout the country. SH & A is located in Naples, FL, with offices in Clinton, NY and Harrisburg, PA.

​Shorelight is reinventing the international education experience for both students and universities. In partnership with leading U.S. institutions, they fund, develop, and launch innovative and transformational internationalization initiatives — whether on campus or online, in the United States or students’ home countries. Shorelight partners with ambitious universities interested in unlocking the international student opportunity. They bring capital, extensive global marketing, recruitment assets, and deep operational expertise to each of our partnerships, built on trust, transparency, and alignment.

Spelman Johnson is an executive search firm. Founded in 1991, they are recognized for their work in 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. Founded in 1973, with offices in Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan, the firm is led by seven principals who are hands-on in every project. The firm’s 44-person team is broken down into functional focus areas, creating experts in the areas of design solutions and project delivery mechanics. The Collaborative’s experience includes more than 80 campuses and more than 650 major higher education projects. With this benchmarking knowledge, the firm can provide guidance for translating strategic goals into physical parameters.

​The Hill Group, Inc. is a premier provider of management counsel, specializing in strategy, operations, and measurement. The firm serves a wide range of private and public sector clients, including small to mid-size private colleges and universities, large corporations, and nonprofits. Through sound strategic planning services, confidential executive coaching, and exceptional care, The Hill Group partners with individuals and organizations to improve performance and achieve results. Their consultants have deep experience across several industries, enabling their team to draw on best practices from a variety of sectors to help their clients grow, innovate, and achieve maximum potential.

Art & Science Group offers market-informed strategy to higher education institutions, independent schools, and the nonprofit sector. Since its founding in 1994, the firm has provided its clients with strategic market research and recommendations, built on a foundation of both creative thinking and empirical rigor—art and science. The 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. The firm is dedicated to helping each institution position itself in ways that positively affect the decisions of its key constituents in the institution’s favor. The Group provides a customized and collaborative approach for each client, with recommendations rooted in sophisticated research and thorough analysis. 

BHDP’s comprehensive suite of higher education services have advanced the mission at over one hundred postsecondary institutions over the past 60 years. Their team of strategists, planners, architects, designers, and higher education specialists are relied upon by postsecondary leaders nationally across all institutional types. BHDP’s expertise in the planning and design of academic and student facilities, teaching and research laboratories, and administration and student support spaces is founded upon their deep knowledge of the business of higher education and a passion for improving student and faculty experiences.

​GMB Architecture + Engineering is an architectural and engineering firm specializing in higher education, sports, K-12 education, healthcare, corporate, and industrial environments. Founded as an architectural firm in 1968, their list of services quickly grew to include mechanical, electrical, civil, and structural engineering, interior design, and landscape architecture. GMB offices are filled with over 100 experts who enjoy sharing their knowledge, and it’s amazing what great minds can do when they work together. The firm has 50 years of learning, growing, and giving back under their belts and serve their clients from four offices: Holland, Grand Rapids and Royal Oak, Michigan, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

​Harvest Table Culinary Group is a campus dining partner students will love. They bring fresh ingredients and new ideas together in a place that encourages personal growth and a strong sense of community. Their team of culinarians and food enthusiasts is dedicated to working with campuses to deliver an innovative, unique, and personalized culinary experience. Together, Harvest Table Culinary Group turns fresh, local, and responsibly sourced ingredients into authentic food experiences where students learn, collaborate, and create lifelong memories.

RH Perry & Associates, an executive search firm, partners with institutions of higher education and other mission-driven organizations to identify outstanding leaders. Established in 1974, RH Perry’s senior consultants and administrative team bring higher education leadership experience and search expertise to every assignment. With an excellent national reputation and demonstrated record of success for CIC-member institutions, the firm is committed to representing their client institutions and engaging with candidates in the highest ethical and professional manner.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a national law firm of more than 370 lawyers and other professionals practicing in 18 offices in Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The firm’s higher education team consists of attorneys from multiple disciplines who cater to the diverse legal service needs of independent colleges throughout the United States, including advice on a broad array of compliance issues and tax-exempt financing. The firm’s attorneys have held positions in higher education as in-house counsel, accountants, development officers, trustees, and faculty members, and they have extensive experience handling issues confronting multiple colleges. In short, the firm understands higher education and constantly aspires to provide cost-effective, pragmatic solutions based on that understanding.

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.

The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting firm specializing in recruitment, financial aid, college finance and retention. The firm has assisted more than 200 colleges and universities in 42 states on issues related to enrollment management and enrollment growth. The Dysart Group consistently integrates enrollment management with institutional objectives regarding net revenue, budgeting, and strategic planning. Their clients have included private colleges, state universities, proprietary schools and a variety of special mission institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the first Historically Hispanic University in the country, more than a dozen women’s colleges, along with religion-affiliated schools of various denominations.