Sponsors
NAICU thanks the following sponsors for their support of the
2026 Annual Meeting & Advocacy Day:
CAPSTONE SPONSOR
For nearly five decades, Academic Search has been a mission-driven organization dedicated to expanding leadership capacity at higher education institutions. Academic Search strengthens colleges and universities through the identification, recruitment, and development of leaders. The team is composed of higher education leaders who bring a wealth of knowledge and expansive networks. Through this experience, the organization is uniquely positioned to understand, appreciate, and address the specific needs of each institution it partners with. Learn more at our website.
BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate
Boldyn Networks for higher education is the leader in delivering managed technology services to colleges and universities nationwide. Our comprehensive portfolio of managed residential and campus network, cloud, IT, and security services helps schools reclaim time for IT innovation while transforming the student, faculty, staff, and administrative experience. Following more than 25 years of exclusive service to higher education, Boldyn is committed to ensuring every partner institution is empowered to succeed and thrive. Learn more at: www.boldyn.com
As a national full-service accounting and advisory firm exclusively serving higher education institutions 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, foundations, churches and denominations, domestic and international outreach organizations, media ministries, rescue missions, and many others by providing support in the key areas of financial integrity and security. At CapinCrouse, our clients enjoy the best of both worlds — personalized service rooted in trusted relationships, backed by the expansive resources of Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI), a top 25* nationally ranked accounting and advisory firm. As a division of CRI, we provide seamless access to a full suite of specialized services whenever your needs evolve. With a nationwide network and a commitment to individualized attention, CapinCrouse is uniquely positioned to help you navigate complex challenges and achieve meaningful results. Discover how we empower institutions like yours at capincrouse.com.
Capital Education (CapEd) is a full-service provider of online and post/non-traditional learning solutions both academic and recruitment, for colleges and universities. Our solutions-focused partnerships 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.
Credo: Powered by Carnegie partners with college and university leaders nationally to drive institutional planning and strategy, transform student success, and support and develop leaders. In 2025, Carnegie and Credo leadership were thrilled to announce the acquisition of Credo into the Carnegie portfolio. Together, Carnegie and Credo are providing clients with strategic consulting and comprehensive solutions, integrated presidential strategy, institutional and campus planning, enrollment management, brand and marketing strategies, and student success partnerships to address the complex challenges facing higher education today. More info is available on our website.
Partnering with presidents, boards, and academic leaders, the Casagrande Institute for Higher Education Effectiveness helps institutions optimize governance, strengthen academic portfolios, evaluate grant-funded initiatives, and develop compensation strategies designed to attract and retain mission-focused and high-performing executives, faculty, and staff. Our consultants have helped 200+ independent colleges and universities realize mission through enhanced effectiveness. Learn more at viterbo.edu/casagrande.
College Board reaches more than 7 million students a year, helping them navigate the path from high school to college and career. Our not-for-profit membership organization was founded more than 120 years ago. We pioneered programs like the SAT® and AP® to expand opportunities for students and help them develop the skills they need. Our BigFuture® program helps students plan for college, pay for college, and explore careers. Learn more at cb.org.
At CollegeVine, we help universities reinvent their operating models to remain sustainable for the next century by deploying safe, 24/7 AI agents. Today, colleges spend $240 billion on administration through complex, labor-intensive workflows. We believe AI agents can make universities dramatically more efficient and agile by streamlining processes, reducing administrative costs, and delivering a far better student experience. For more information, visit our website.
The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting firm specializing in enrollment management. We have provided consultation services to more than 250 colleges and universities throughout the United States with extraordinary results. New student enrollments have grown by as much as 70% in a single cycle while discount rates have been stabilized or reduced. Proven strategies have increased retention rates by as much as 7% in one year. Our passion is helping private colleges and universities, especially those serving at-risk populations.
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.
At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, and advancement. We work with each partner differently, tailoring our portfolio of research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions to meet the unique needs of every leadership team, as well as the students and employees they serve. Learn more at eab.com.
Elior Collegiate Dining partners with forward-thinking colleges and universities across the U.S., serving more than 32 million meals each year. We deliver bold, culturally relevant dining experiences that energize campus life, build community, and turn food into a defining part of the student journey. Visit our website for more information.
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.
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 (HCS) offers full-service merger, partnership, and affiliations consulting for colleges and universities—from early feasibility and financial runway analysis through implementation and post‑merger assessment. We train boards, perform desirability and due diligence studies, model finances, identify partners, develop communications, branding/marketing, support shared services or closures, and evaluate outcomes—all tailored to your institution’s mission and timing. For more information, visit our website.
Husch Blackwell Consulting, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Husch Blackwell LLP. Nationally known for its Higher Education Practice of over 40 attorneys dedicated to legal services for colleges and universities, Husch Blackwell is also known for its innovation. Through data analytics and consulting services with scaffolding and supports, Husch Blackwell Consulting helps institutions successfully navigate the ever-changing economic landscape. Our team helps colleges and universities adopt more proactive, outcome-driven approaches to ensure institutional sustainability, and help provide stakeholders a clear, objective view of institutional performance.
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.
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.
Kimmel Bogrette Architecture is a full-service Design firm specializing in Architecture, Master Planning, Interior Design and Site Planning for Mission Driven Educational Institutions. To date, we have worked on over 75 higher-ed campuses, helping to further each of their unique Missions with projects that build their individual brands and attract/retain the students they desire most. Our Mission is to provide “Extraordinary Solutions for Ordinary Budgets” and it is our commitment to deliver projects that exceed your expectations, within the available funding. To learn more, visit our website.
Landmark College was the world's first college built exclusively for students who learn differently, including individuals with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, or executive function challenges. In addition to associate and bachelor's degree programs, Landmark offers extensive on-campus and online programming that supports neurodivergent learners with their transition to college and prepares them for careers following graduation. Learn more at www.landmark.edu.
Liviniti is a national PBM operating with complete transparency, returning 100% of drug discounts and rebates to clients. Founded by pharmacists, our model has gained national attention as the way pharmacy benefits should be delivered – helping to keep drugs accessible and affordable. The RxCompass program sources the lowest price for drugs among multiple pathways, creating substantial savings. It’s easy for members to get support since real people, not machines, answer calls 24/7/365. Leveraging custom-built technologies, the company moves fast while flexing to meet client needs. Liviniti helps plan sponsors reduce drug spend, understand cost drivers and stretch their benefit dollars. Visit www.liviniti.com.
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.
Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management helping organizations build, develop, and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success. Our strategy-driven compensation and leadership consulting services act as powerful catalysts for value creation and competitive advantage by addressing the critical links between people and outcomes. Our industry experts, focused exclusively on the higher education sector, have helped hundreds of colleges and universities achieve their objectives. To learn more visit our website at www.pearlmeyer.com.
PeopleGrove is the platform that transforms the student experience and future-proofs institutions. By solving the critical challenges facing higher education, from scaling mentorship and engaging alumni to ensuring student belonging and managing complex clinical and non-clinical education. PeopleGrove is the solution that eliminates systemic obstacles like fragmented scheduling, poor placement rates, and limited career readiness, enabling institutions to meet accreditation standards and close opportunity gaps. Join the 650+ institutions and 20 million students who rely on PeopleGrove to drive lifelong success. Learn more at our website.
Rize Education partners with small colleges to grow enrollment and improve student outcomes by offering career-aligned academic programs. Over 115 colleges use our innovative program sharing model to launch and maintain high-demand programs faster and more affordably than developing them independently. Our mission is to provide a pathway to fulfilling employment for every student while improving the financial sustainability of small colleges. Today our partners have collectively adopted 600+ academic programs using the Rize model and have been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed.
Steptoe & Johnson partners with colleges and universities as a trusted counsel, offering tailored, practical solutions across a wide spectrum of institutional needs. With deep familiarity of the higher-education landscape—thanks in part to attorneys with experience as academic administrators and faculty—we help institutions design risk-smart policies and processes while also preparing to litigate when necessary. We advise leadership and boards on key areas including business operations, governance, Title IX and anti-discrimination compliance, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and institutional partnerships and mergers. By combining strategic vision and practical support, we empower institutions to focus on their core mission while minimizing legal and operational exposure. For more information, please visit steptoe-johnson.com/higher-education.
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. Together, we fight to ensure a more secure financial future for all. Learn more at our website.
Wespath Institutional Investments (WII) provides investment management services exclusively to nonprofit organizations, including colleges, universities and other higher education institutions. WII's Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) investment model is purpose-built for nonprofit, mission-driven organizations through values-aligned investment strategies, personalized service and an unwavering commitment to long-term financial stewardship. As a nonprofit serving other nonprofits, WII has unique expertise and insight to help our clients overcome challenges and grow their missions. Learn more about how WII can serve your organization: https://info.wespath.com/acton/media/16907/naicu-2026