Sponsors

NAICU thanks the following sponsors for their support of the 2024 Annual Meeting & Advocacy Day:

		Academic Search has offered executive search services exclusively to higher education institutions, associations, and research organizations for almost 50 years. Academic Search is the only search firm in the nation with a formal relationship to a premier leadership development program. As the subsidiary of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), Academic Search provides substantial financial support to a number of leadership identification, development, and support programs for the independent college sector. We are proud to have expanded our services over the years to include executive coaching, leadership transition planning, and onboarding support.  Learn more at our website.
		The American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI) is a leading nonprofit organization that offers leadership identification, development, and support programs for administrators at public and private colleges and universities across the country through the generous support of Academic Search. AALI works to cultivate the next generation of higher education leadership for the college and university of the future.  For more info, visit our website.
		Established in Austin in 1999, Apogee is a leading provider of managed technology services that enable colleges and universities to innovate to enrich the campus experience and foster student vitality. Uniquely positioned to serve higher education, Apogee supports a community of more than one million students and administrators at over 350 colleges and universities nationwide. The company’s comprehensive portfolio includes Managed Campus (networks and managed IT and cloud services), ResNet (residential networks), campus engagement and digital signage, and video services. Visit our website, for more information.
		ArentFox Schiff is internationally recognized in core practice areas where business, government, and the law intersect. The firm provides strategic legal counsel and multidisciplinary solutions to a global roster of corporations, government organizations, nonprofits, universities, and trade and professional associations. Our practice breadth and collaboration among our more than 650 lawyers and professionals, geographic reach spanning seven offices across the United States, and industry knowledge across nearly two dozen industries combine to provide clients with business-oriented legal and regulatory advice designed to ensure they achieve their commercial and public policy goals. 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.
		CapinCrouse LLP is a national full-service CPA and consulting firm devoted to providing professional solutions to organizations whose outcomes are measured in lives changed. For over 50 years, the firm has served colleges, universities, seminaries, and other nonprofit organizations by providing support in the key areas of financial integrity and security. CapinCrouse has the resources of a large firm and the personal touch of a local firm. For more information, visit our website.
		Casagrande Consulting has provided board, leadership and compensation effectiveness insight to more than 100 institutions of higher education since our launch in 2009. See our website for more information.
		Cengage helps higher education instructors, learners and institutions with course materials built around their needs. Cengage provides education content and technology to support the learning goals of more than 12M digital learners, from middle school to graduate school, at more than 20,000 institutions globally.  Visit our website for more information.
		CollegeVine is the world’s largest network connecting students, colleges and school counselors. Over 2 million students use CollegeVine to research colleges, find advisors, connect with college admissions teams, submit their applications, secure financial aid, and improve their chances of getting accepted—all at no cost to them or their families. CollegeVine partners with over 300 colleges and universities to give them modern ways to find, engage, and recruit students, and provides guidance counselors a suite of tools to help them meaningfully serve all of the students in their districts. For more information, visit our website.
		Core Education is a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to support nonprofit institutions through business model transformation and innovative shared services. We do this by leveraging economies of scale across the Core Affiliate Network's $800M system operating budget to achieve operational effectiveness, technological efficiency, and market expansion.  For more information, visit our website.
		Creative Dining Services is a hospitality management company that provides sustainable, innovative, and personalized dining programs for businesses, colleges and universities, and senior living communities. Creative Dining is a trusted hospitality partner to over 70 clients across the United States and growing. The company is headquartered in Zeeland, MI. To learn more, 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; multi-year projects oriented toward action and measurable results; and a constant eye to the evolving landscape of higher education. Learn more on our website.
		At DegreeSight, we are dedicated to enhancing the educational experience for students and institutions. Our reimagined coursework evaluation solutions boost enrollment rates, streamline equivalency management, and simplify costly and time-consuming processes being managed by faculty and staff. Our mission is to make the degree attainment process more accessible for everyone by serving as collaborative partners with institutions to solve their most critical challenges through technology. For more information, visit our website.
		Universities and colleges trust Dynamic Campus 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. Our 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.” Visit our website for more information.
		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.
		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 Education Licensure Pros helps colleges and universities comply with all licensure-related laws and policies, including the new Department of Education Title IV regulations. We unravel complex and dynamic licensure requirements, saving your faculty and staff significant time and frustration. As a convenient solution, we created The Bookmark -- our one-of-a-kind curated online research library that includes requirements across professions for all US states and territories. Colleges and universities are invited to become members of The Bookmark to access this essential information. Our other services include legal research, curriculum comparisons, education, communication strategy, and compliance processes – specific to professional and occupational licensure. To learn more, 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.
		Isaacson, Miller is one of the country’s premier executive search firms serving higher education institutions and academic medical centers. Through thousands of searches across the entire range of academic institutions, Isaacson, Miller has developed a comprehensive practice that partners with the most distinguished universities and selective liberal arts colleges to recruit exceptional academic and functional leadership. For more information, please 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.
		Through a powerful combination of technology and services, Liaison helps over 40,000+ undergraduate, graduate, and postbac programs across more than 1,200 campuses achieve their recruitment, admissions, enrollment, and student success goals. Liaison’s solutions include Centralized Application Service (CAS), TargetX, and Othot as well as Enrollment Marketing Services (EM), WebAdMIT, Outcomes by Liaison, SlideRoom, and Time2Track.  See more at 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.
		Metz Culinary & Environmental Services works closely with you to create a customized hospitality program reflecting your campus culture.  Metz delivers fresh, “Chef Inspired” menu items and our facilities team makes certain your school’s grounds, classrooms, and offices are sparkling clean.  You have a trusted partner with Metz and we look forward to serving your students. Learn more at 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.
		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 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 sits at the nexus of data-informed campus change management. For two decades, we have harnessed the power of experiential climate assessment data to help colleges and universities 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 your communities, Rankin Climate offers the solution to empower you to support and grow your community authentically. Learn more at our website.
		SageView Advisory Group, LLC is an independent Registered Investment Advisor with over 270 employees located in more than 30 offices nationwide. The firm provides unbiased retirement plan and wealth management consulting services to clients throughout the U.S. We have been evaluating and advising institutions and individuals since 1989. SageView advises on over 1,900 defined contribution, defined benefit and deferred compensation plans and more than 4,000 households  totaling $151 billion of client assets. Our advisors each have extensive experience in the financial industry and have worked with some of the largest plans in the nation. Learn more on our website.
		Segal is the firm of choice for institutions seeking a partner to create dynamic and comprehensive human resources, benefits, and organizational development strategies to support their institutional goals and objectives. Our firm's dedicated, cross-functional higher education practice brings to your institution broad experience and deep understanding of the dynamics of academic institutions. To learn more, visit our website.
		The Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Higher Education Team has established itself as trusted legal counsel to institutions of higher education (IHEs) across the United States as they navigate a swiftly changing educational landscape. We provide practical solutions tailored to meet the evolving needs of IHEs by designing policies and processes that serve to expand opportunities and minimize risk. Our diverse team leverages extensive experience to enhance the strategic position of our higher education clients, offering proactive, long-range guidance in a variety of areas of campus life. In addition to serving as academic administrators and faculty, many members of the Steptoe & Johnson Higher Education Team have worked at all levels of government; led public policy initiatives; and have served as board members of educational institutions and non-profit organizations. 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.
		TimelyCare is higher education’s most trusted virtual health and well-being provider, serving more than two million students at 350 campuses nationwide. Founded in 2017, TimelyCare pioneered the first telehealth solution built exclusively for higher education, with a mission to improve the health and well-being of college students by making virtual medical and mental health care accessible anytime, anywhere. To learn more, visit our website.
		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.
		The Virtual Care Group (VCG) provides medical, mental, and psychiatric healthcare services to college campuses throughout the country. Board-certified physicians, licensed counselors, and board-certified psychiatrists support the needs of students, faculty, and staff at 100+ colleges and universities providing safe, affordable, private, and convenient healthcare. To learn more, visit our website.