Sponsors

Ardeo’s mission is to help students by increasing access to the life-changing impact of higher education and to enable our team, our clients and our students to achieve their full potential. Visit our website for more information.

CampusWorks supports higher education institutions in addressing complex challenges and building institutional sustainability. With a focus on student success and advancing institutional goals, we collaborate with colleges and universities to build resilient, future-ready institutions that empower students, faculty, and staff to achieve their full potential. Our team of experts brings deep knowledge and hands-on experience, delivering tailored solutions in areas such as technology, strategy, and operational excellence. For more details, visit our website.

As a national full-service CPA and consulting firm devoted to serving higher education and other nonprofit organizations, CapinCrouse provides professional solutions to organizations whose outcomes are measured in lives changed. For over 50 years, the firm has served universities and seminaries, domestic and international outreach organizations, foundations, media ministries, rescue missions, churches and denominations, and many others by providing support in the key areas of financial integrity and security. With a network of offices across the nation, CapinCrouse has the resources of a large firm and the personal touch of a local firm. Learn more at our website.

CapEd is a full-service provider of online and post-traditional learning solutions including micro-credentials and digital badges for colleges and universities.  Our solutions-focused relationships are custom built to support the broadest strategic intents of our partners allowing for packages that range from comprehensive revenue share to fee for service.  Visit our website for more information.

The Casagrande Institute for Higher Education Effectiveness empowers institutions to realize mission through enhanced board, leadership, and compensation effectiveness. We collaborate with leaders to provide sustainable and mission-aligned insights in board optimization, executive coaching, academic program prioritization, and fair compensation for faculty, staff, and executives. Consultants at the Casagrande Institute have worked with over 200 independent colleges and universities. Learn more at viterbo.edu/casagrande.

Coursera empowers any university to offer job-relevant online education to students, faculty, and staff. With Coursera for Campus, you'll build on top of your curriculum with innovative, career-aligned courses and micro-credentials to strengthen employment outcomes that attract students and increase enrollments. For more information, visit our website.

At Cotton Law, excellence and expertise in higher education employment law and executive compensation are our driving forces. Serving higher education for over half a century, our firm was originally founded by the late Raymond D. Cotton, Esq. Cotton Law exclusively counsels higher education executives, including: presidential transitions, contract negotiations, separation negotiations, discrimination, and compensation studies. For more information call Brandon J. M. Cotton at (720) 841-0500 or visit our website.

Credo is a higher education consulting firm focused on strategy and student success, with a goal to impact the lives of more than a million students by 2030 through radically transforming student outcomes on campuses around the country. We seek to create this impact in partnership with our client campuses through the lenses people, leadership, and culture; projects oriented toward action and measurable results; and a constant eye to the evolving landscape of higher education. Learn more on our website.

EducationDynamics is the transformative strategic partner that helps schools meet the challenges and opportunities of serving today’s student. Our mission is to help colleges and universities understand, engage, and serve students and expand opportunity through education. We have dedicated the last 30 years to helping schools serve adult and non-traditional students through online programs, and we are the largest provider of unbundled marketing and enrollment management services for online and adult-focused higher ed. For more information, visit our website.

Encoura® is an educational technology company serving over 2,000 higher ed institutions. Through the Encoura platform, the company combines data science, advanced analytics, research, & predictive modeling so institutions can meet their enrollment goals & improve student success & outcomes. For more information, visit our website.

Fiorini and Associates (F&A) is a consulting agency that works with institutions to build, support, and grow an effective grants culture. This is accomplished by supporting faculty via informational presentations and hands-on workshops designed to introduce them to best practices in grant writing. F&A also provides ongoing grant proposal mentoring, from ideation and funding research through development, editing, and review of grant applications. Finally, they strategize with institutions to plan, build, and implement the necessary scaffolding to maximize grant funding success. Their associates are senior faculty and administrators with experience and expertise in related industries and research centers. For more information, visit our website.

Gragg Advertising is a full service, integrated marketing agency with expertise in all media channels. Gragg implements attribution modeling for its clients. Attribution modeling is the understanding of how each media channel works with others to give you the greatest results. We have expertise in creative and brand development, traditional media, PPI, PPC, Social, SEO, Web development, referral strategies, and a host of proprietary products and services. All in-house. No outsourcing. Our unique integrated strategy with proven direct response tactics delivers quantifiable results. “With Gragg Advertising it is…Expectations Exceeded!” For more information visit www.graggadv.com or contact Lisa Olmedo, senior vice president of business development, at 816-931-0050 or lolmedo@graggadv.com. 

HES is a premier national provider of facilities management services focused 100% on educational institutions. We pride ourselves on building best-in-class programs for custodial, maintenance, and grounds services. With hundreds of years of combined facilities experience, our leadership team is comprised of results-oriented, hands-on executives and facilities experts who give your facilities our full attention. Whether for a grounds program, custodial services, or maintenance solutions, HES will change the way you look at facilities management. Learn more on our website.

Higher Ed Consolidation Solutions is a full-service college and university merger consultancy. At HCS, college and university merger consulting is all that we do. An institutional event of this magnitude deserves specialists who have the background and expertise to handle these sensitive transformative events. For more information, visit our website.

Hyatt-Fennell, Executive Search Plus, is a highly successful executive firm with a strong support staff and independent senior consultants rich in higher education and national and international recruitment and coaching experience.  Hyatt-Fennell enhances and individualizes the process for everyone and offers a commitment to provide exceptional services for our clients and institutions. For more information, visit our website.

The Way Forward: Inceptia helps colleges, universities and trade schools strengthen relationships and boost enrollment using agile, dependable solutions that enable students to successfully navigate admissions and financial aid, borrow wisely and resolve their loan repayment challenges. With tailored solutions, a deeply knowledgeable staff and a nonprofit’s commitment to service, Inceptia serves as an extension of your team, empowering you to reach, influence and close the loop with students faster so you can focus on what matters most—student success. Learn more on our website.

Today’s students expect to learn and live in safe, healthy, comfortable, and sustainable environments.  On campuses across the country, presidents and administrators face a seemingly overwhelming challenge: How to optimize campus environments, lower energy consumption, decrease operational costs, and reduce environmental impact, while at the same time attracting students and recruiting faculty? Johnson Controls, a leading provider of higher-education solutions, helps colleges and universities achieve their diverse goals by creating comfortable, quality learning environments that operate more intelligently and efficiently. Johnson Controls is the college partner for products, services, and funding. We blend a technical and financial expertise for a turn key solution.  To learn more, visit our website.

Mason Jay Blacher & Associates offers direct hands-on principal gift fundraising expertise that informs development audits, feasibility studies, and capital campaigns.  Mason Blacher, formerly director of major gifts at Stanford Business School (CA), has served institutions as interim director or vice president for advancement, filled difficult-to-hire major gift positions on contract, and strengthened/mentored boards of trustees in fundraising skills. To learn more, visit our website.

National Management Resources Corporation, founded in 1978, 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 they serve. With National, you can rest assured that your facilities look their best or recruitment, retention, and advancement.
For more information, visit our website.

Noelker and Hull Associates is a full-service architecture, master planning and interior design firm providing award-winning design solutions to colleges and universities since 1957. Our experience includes a diverse portfolio of master planning, site planning, feasibility studies, programming and design, with particular expertise in student housing and dining facilities. Our designs complement the campus community and promote students’ quality of life. We execute projects across the United States from our offices in Chambersburg, PA, and Frederick, MD. Our firm is large enough to undertake any project, but small enough to have few layers of management. Each client works directly with our principals throughout a project. We pride ourselves on cultivating friendly and long-term relationships. We listen, strive to understand our client’s needs, and respond with appropriate design solutions.
Learn more at our website.

A culture of data-informed improvement is possible.  Information gets used when it is readily available and easy to use in the moment it is needed. Nuventive helps institutions make better use of their information by providing it, agnostic to source, in context to specific improvement processes. This saves faculty and staff valuable time and helps institutions realize greater value from their existing information and technology investments. The Nuventive Improvement Platform supports a wide variety of improvement processes, including outcomes assessment, program review, strategic planning, diversity, and sustainability, as well as tying resource requests to goals. Discover tangible insights into what really moves the needle on your initiatives. Learn more at nuventive.com.

PeopleGrove is the solution leveraging navigation tools and relationships with students, alumni, industry leaders, and faculty to increase yield, retention, and alumni volunteerism. Mentorships, experiential learning, career support, co-curricular management, and AI driven connections are some of the components utilized to drive revenue and relevance for campus partners. From 3.4x increases in donor giving rates to 3.24x in enrollment rates, our 400+ campus partners and 20M students and alumni are experiencing meaningful results. Learn more at our website.

For 50 years, colleges and nonprofit organizations have turned to Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) to enroll the students they want, help more students graduate and succeed, and build lifelong relationships with donors. Our mission is to make colleges, universities, and nonprofits successful and vibrant with inspired and relevant engagement with our team of experts.
For more information, visit our website.

For more than three decades, the RW Jones Agency has advised U.S. higher education leaders on strategic communications, change management, constituent engagement and culture change. Our work spans proactive visibility campaigns and issues management, including full-service research and social media practices. RWJ Social offers customized social media strategy, training, support and implementation. RWJ Research provides rigorous data-informed organizational insights that translate to action. Learn more at our website.

Rankin Climate specializes in collaborating with institutions to cultivate a thriving campus community through assessment, planning and implementation of intervention strategies. Rankin Climate tailors its assessment approach from the moment we interact with your campus. We believe in transparent communication, so our experienced team of academic researchers and project managers keep in close contact with your key stakeholders every step of the way. From data-driven tools to the latest academic research, we work as a team to gain meaningful insights about your campus climate. Our highly collaborative process allows us to blend seamlessly with your culture to develop a road map for accomplishing your goals with customized solutions. Learn more at our website.

Segal is the leading independent employee benefits and HR consulting firm.  Our mission is to provide trusted advice that improves lives.  We have dedicated experts across the organization that collaborate to bring effective practices tailored to the academic environment.  Our higher education team leverages experience that spans markets and industries to develop solutions that meet your institution's unique needs.  Colleges and universities across the country and of all sizes have relied on Segal to provide objective HR consulting for years.  To learn more, visit our website.

The Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a U.S. law firm with strengths in energy, labor & employment, litigation, and transactional law. Steptoe & Johnson has over 400 lawyers and other professionals practicing in 18 offices in Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia.  For more information, visit our website.

Stevens Strategy is a full-service consulting firm specializing in managing the process of strategic change in colleges, universities and schools.  We offer professional services to the leaders of these institutions in the areas of Institutional Vision and Strategy, Strategic Organizational Leadership, Market and Program Analytics, Finance and Data Analytics and Institution-wide Policy Development. Our consultants have extensive experience serving more than 100 independent and public colleges, universities and schools—including positions as present and former trustees, presidents, faculty, vice presidents and other senior staff—each with a particular area of expertise in college, university and school leadership and management.  Visit our website for more information.

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 leaders and executives who can help institutions to define, to shape, and to achieve a more resilient and sustainable future. While the number of our interim engagements continues to increase at unprecedented levels, colleges and universities are also arranging for Ras Consulting Solutions also provided by our members—all of whom represent the “gold standard” of the registry.  For all leadership transitions, make your first stop 
The Registry. 

TIAA was founded in 1918 to help teachers retire with confidence. 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 be the change—for our clients, associates and communities—has never wavered and it’s what motivates us to deliver lifetime income for all with investments that build a better world. Learn more at our website.

Uwill is the leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students. Utilizing its proprietary technology and counselor team, Uwill pioneered the first student and therapist matching platform. The solution offers an immediate appointment with a licensed counselor based on student preferences, all modalities of teletherapy, a direct crisis connection, urgent care telehealth, wellness events, realtime data, and support. Uwill supports more than 3 million students at 400+ institutions in 50 states and 40 countries. For more information, visit uwill.com