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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.

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.

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. 

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.

​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.

Ferrilli is a technology services provider exclusively serving the unique needs and challenges of higher education. Their team of dedicated higher education and technology experts are available 24/7 and will take the time to understand an institution’s individual needs and provide objective guidance. They are often called upon to solve problems or serve as a strategic partner who can help institutions find the best pathways forward. Clients value their expertise, integrity, reliability, specialized experience, and diverse range of capabilities.

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.

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 1,350 campuses worldwide with intuitive and powerful offerings that enable long-term success for both institutions and their students.

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.

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.

​Wiley University Services is a career-connected education provider that works with higher education institutions to meet learners’ needs and unlock human potential. They partner with over 70 colleges and universities around the globe and have helped 155,000 learners earn their degrees, advance their skills, and reach their career goals. 

​Aramark Collegiate Hospitality creates a hospitality ecosystem fueled by experiences and culinary excellence that are unique to every college and university. As an industry leader with over 50 years of experience, Aramark Collegiate Hospitality seeks to take their service a step further with each and every unique experience they craft.

​BibliU’s learning enablement platform is used by over 150 higher ed institutions, including St. Thomas University (FL), Jackson College, and WSU Tech to drive better student engagement and outcomes through more efficient, effective, and equitable learning. Leveraging digital content management, workflow automation, and analytics, BibliU’s solution puts digital textbooks, courseware, and monographs at the fingertips of all students. Working with 2000 publishers and OER providers to deliver millions of digital resources, BibliU combines academic freedom with innovative affordability and automation to deliver unmatched value to institutions, as well as the students they serve.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Harvest Table Culinary Group is a pioneering higher education food service company offering innovative, authentic, and personalized food experiences. Their team expects their food to taste, and they want to know where it came from and who prepared it. Harvest Table Culinary Group want to tell a story with their culinary experiences. They use transparent, fresh, responsibly-sourced ingredients to create exciting flavors from down the street and around the globe. World-class chefs, hospitality teams, and food enthusiasts are ready to create dishes and experiences that meet every need.

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.

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

MARKETview Education Partners connects a college’s existing, disparate student-record level data sets from prospect through first-year retention, appends household level third-party consumer data, and enables them to gauge real-time performance based on the data sets from 100 (and growing) other colleges and universities. This comprehensive view of the market coupled with their team’s expert counsel and analytical support is increasing net tuition revenue, building and shaping classes, and improving first-year retention rates for their partners.

​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.

​MyNextSeason was founded with the vision of helping organizations, companies, and individuals with important career transitions and ensuring they happen well. MyNextSeason’s executive transition support is a first-to-market solution, changing the paradigm of how higher education institutions support presidential transitions. Whether a president is moving on to a new opportunity or contemplating retirement, MyNextSeason recognizes the significance of this transition for the president and the university and is committed to the well-being of both. 

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. 

​Stifel is a full-service wealth management and investment banking firm founded in 1890. Their philosophy on investing is grounded on a more than 130-year-old tradition of trust, understanding, and solid, studied advice. The company is a registered investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Westfall Gold exists to fuel life transformation. Their model strategically accelerates major donor experiences, deepening engagement with prospective donors, and compresses the cultivation cycle from twelve to eighteen months to three-and-a-half days. As fundraising consultants, the Westfall Gold team has produced nearly 500 major donor experience weekends, raising over $1.5 billion for nonprofit organizations. The major donor fundraising agency moves donors from transactional to transformational giving, bonds them to their partners’ visions, and turns supporters into ambassadors.

​YOU at College is a digital health organization focused on proactively meeting the well-being needs of students, faculty, and staff to foster healthy and thriving campus communities. YOU at College utilizes student-centered design to build trust, usability, and evidence-basis into all of their interventions.

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.

AGB Consulting provides institutions and foundations with support, solutions, tools, and thought partnership to enable sound, strategic, and transformational decisions in the face of complex and evolving challenges. Their experts work with governing boards and leaders to strengthen higher education governing boards. AGB Consulting’s services include evaluating boards, assessing presidents, facilitating strategic planning and transformation, coaching chairs and presidents, supporting board composition and selection, developing effective foundation boards, and more.

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.

Ardeo Education Solutions is dedicated to increasing access to the life-changing impact of higher education. Ardeo’s Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) support students who may feel financially shut out, helping them attend and graduate from college. LRAPs provide a significant financial benefit: if a student’s income after graduation is modest, the program will help repay their student loans.

C&W Services helps institutions of higher learning lower overhead costs, improve efficiencies, and ensure their campuses are a fitting reflection of their heritage. With 70 years of experience serving North America’s leading colleges and universities, they understand the role that safe, clean, and pleasing environments play in attracting students, faculty, and endowments. Their cleaning and landscaping teams help keep campuses beautiful and appealing. Behind the scenes, maintenance services can help right the effects when maintenance has been deferred and maintain smooth operations across all generations of campus facilities.

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.

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. 

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. 

EY-Parthenon helps higher education institutions transform and thrive in practical and sustainable ways. Some of their many services include identifying opportunities for differentiation, optimizing the education delivery and service model, and managing transformative processes through partnerships or collaborations. The EY-Parthenon goal is to bring analysis and insight to higher education leaders to empower them to achieve the full potential of their institution.

​FORVIS, LLP ranks among the nation’s top 10 professional services firms. Created by the merger of equals of BKD, LLP and Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP (DHG), FORVIS is driven by the commitment to use their forward vision to deliver Unmatched Client Experiences™. FORVIS is built upon the strong legacies of BKD and DHG, which is reflected in a name that comprises partner initials and represents our unique focus on preparing our clients for what is next. With more than 5,500 dedicated professionals who serve clients in all 50 states as well as across the globe, FORVIS offers assurance, tax, advisory, and wealth management services.

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.

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 fifty 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.

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.   

​Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein represents education institutions through every type of legal matter that presents. Their understanding of the unique needs of schools and colleges comes from their attorneys’ years of experience and a cross-discipline practice in specialized legal areas. Their clients include every type of education institution–private and public colleges and universities, K-12 public school districts, private schools, and charter schools. Members of their politically savvy team are close observers of regulatory and cultural forces that impact today's schools as never before. Parker Poe partners with clients to devise practical solutions for increasingly complex matters, allowing them to focus on their core mission of educating students.

Parkhurst Dining is a family-owned and operated foodservice firm, catering exclusively to independent higher education institutions in the Northeast and Midwest. Parkhurst Dining is recognized by their client partners for their brand promises: delivering culinary excellence, knowing their sources, serving guests with a smile, and building genuine partner relationships. At Parkhurst, they believe in delivering inclusive dining solutions and creating a vibrant and differentiated campus life experience for students.

Partners Development is a full service real estate development firm focused on providing project management and owner's representation services to private, independent colleges and universities. They specialize in comprehensive facilities planning, financing, and development for institutions of higher education.

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.

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.

​Rankin Climate sits at the nexus of data-informed change management. For two decades, they have harnessed the power of institutional experiential climate assessment data to help organizations transform their cultures and build values-based communities of purpose. Whether providing insightful data to transform culture, developing action-oriented change management and climate development programs or creating values-based training to engage and inspire communities, Rankin Climate offers the solution to empower, support, and grow a community authentically.

​Rize Education helps independent colleges grow enrollment by building and managing affordable, career-oriented academic programs that leverage high-quality online courses taught by peer institutions.

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.

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 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 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.

 U3 Advisors works with anchor institutions to advance their mission and unlock their impact. Through envisioning and implementing transformative real estate and economic strategies and interventions, U3 Advisors creates vibrant and sustainable campuses and communities that promote economic impact and inclusion. U3 helps institutions advance bold visions, identify shared values, and take action to realize their goals for economic, physical, and cultural development.

​Angeles Investments has been providing OCIO (Outsourced Chief Investment Officer) services for over 20 years to foundations, endowments, and other non-profit institutions. They work with non-profit clients to structure customized portfolios that leverage their status as long-term investors while balancing the spending, liquidity needs, and mission-related interests of the institutions they support. Angeles maintains an asset base large enough to gain access to best-in-class managers and supports an experienced team that performs all the sophisticated functions required to evaluate and manage complex global portfolios. They act with integrity, serving as a trusted steward and long-term partner with their clients.

Art & Science Group, LLC, a Baltimore-based consulting firm, offers market-informed strategy to higher education, independent schools, and the non-profit 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.

​Chessiecap is a FINRA registered broker dealer with extensive experience advising higher education institutions on complex financial matters. They serve as trusted advisors to their clients, partnering to achieve the most favorable outcome. Chessiecap understands that every situation is different, and every institution is unique. Their principals have created an analytic process and framework for institutions to assess their financial risks and identify their options. The process is designed to work closely with the constituencies of the institution to understand the situation and dynamics, and then to work collaboratively to develop a solution that is optimal for the institution.

​Core Education Services, PBC, is a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to support small and mid-sized institutions through innovative shared services in market expansion, technology efficiency, and operational effectiveness. Core empowers its partner schools to modernize and transform their business models while remaining independent through innovative shared services made accessible by economies of scale. Core Education provides supporting services across an array of functional areas, including marketing, enrollment resources, workforce programs, technology modernization, operational efficiency, capital strategies, campus operations, and compliance services. The Core Affiliate Network launched in September 2022 with ten member institutions whose combined budgets total $457M.

​EducationDynamics is a higher education leader in connecting students with the educators that can best help them achieve their personal and professional goals. They offer a full suite of services, including enrollment management, marketing, branding, nurturing, retention services, and more. EducationDynamics give their college and university clients the flexibility to talk to prospective students where they currently live, moving them smoothly through the engagement funnel, from consideration to graduation.

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.

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.