Sponsors

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.