Strategic Partnerships
The APCU has established preferred relationships with a number of higher education service providers that have a proven track record of success in our sector. Most of our partners have been recommended to us by APCU member schools based on previous interactions. Others have been carefully vetted by APCU staff to ensure that they are a good fit for our members and willing to offer exclusive services and/or discounted pricing.
12twenty is making career development and hiring simpler, more equitable, and more efficient — from the first hire after college all the way to retirement. Meet the data-driven platform that helps universities and employers connect top college talent to the perfect career opportunities.
At Academic Innovators, our goal is to reimagine how higher education works by respecting campus culture, historic traditions, and the capacity of college and university campuses to adapt, change, and evolve. If a college faces a challenge, we work with the institution as thought partners to meet their challenge and turn it into an opportunity.
For more than four decades, Academic Search has been partnering with higher education institutions and associations to assemble the best teams possible. Our mission is to enhance institutional capacity by providing outstanding executive recruitment services, executive coaching, and transition support, in collaboration with our parent organization, the American Academic Leadership Institute.
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partners with employers affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to provide a broad range of benefits programs, including medical, dental, vision, retirement, death and disability, and flexible spending accounts. We are committed to wholeness and mutual care, administering benefits to 65,000 individuals with professional expertise and compassion.
Carnegie is the Student Connection Company that empowers colleges and universities to connect and build lifelong relationships with today’s diverse learners. Every strategy we build, every voice we help shape, and every decision we guide is rooted in one belief: when students succeed, higher education thrives—and the world wins.
For over 50 years, EIIA has been protecting the promise of higher education by offering our members a sophisticated range of insurance and risk management services and advocating for them in the insurance marketplace. Search the insurance landscape and you won’t find another organization quite like EIIA. When it comes to serving the insurance and risk management needs of colleges and universities, it is without equal.
Gray DI supplies innovative, leading-edge software that provides easy access to data streams critical to academic program evaluation and management. Our college and university partners rely on us to provide better tools and data, a proven and customizable process, and expert facilitation to help decision makers develop institutional strategies, select programs, pick locations, and prepare curricula.
JM Partner Solutions specializes in providing tailored solutions to meet specific enrollment and revenue challenges. Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we take time to understand the unique needs and goals of each client and develop customized strategies to help them achieve success.
Liaison seamlessly integrates technical and strategic expertise to help higher education institutions and students make well-informed enrollment decisions that connect academic ambition with lifetime achievement. Our vision of creating a more educated world is the catalyst that ignites our passion for expanding access, simplifying experiences, and empowering decision makers.
Since 2000, Nuventive has helped leading higher education institutions across the country succeed in accomplishing their strategic objectives. Our technology solutions and services enable colleges and universities—large and small—to plan more consistently, collaborate more effectively, make smarter decisions, and ultimately, create a culture of data-informed, goal-aligned performance.
Pharos Resources provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to improve student outcomes. Based on our experience in higher education, we have created the right tools to increase every efficiency and enhance your student’s success. Our innovative software and philosophy will enable you to identify at-risk students, eliminate silos, connect students with touchpoint relationships, and improve student care, retention, and graduation.
The Presbyterian Foundation is your partner in growing and managing your funds to support your educational institution for years to come. We can walk with you in the financial challenges you face, including guidance on property sales and how to boost legacy gifts. We have lots of experience—and we’d love to talk to you. Reach out to Glen Bell.
Very few law firms offer the breadth and scope of experience in higher education that is available through Steptoe & Johnson. In addition, Steptoe & Johnson offers highly specialized experience in areas of the law that are becoming increasingly important for colleges and universities, including Title IX and discrimination matters, employment and labor issues, intellectual property and copyright concerns, records and data security, and litigation.
The following service organizations have also made a commitment to the APCU to support the work of our members and to provide programs and services at discounted rates and/or with enhanced features.
The British Council is the UK’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. They support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding, and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. The APCU partners with the British Council to deliver the Study USA program, a highly successful program that offers undergraduate students in Northern Ireland the opportunity to study for one year at an APCU member school.
The Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) is a nationwide network of colleges and universities formed to enrich the intellectual and theological exploration of vocation among undergraduate students. This initiative is administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) with generous support from Lilly Endowment Inc. and members’ dues.
Executives in Church-Related Higher Education (ECRHE) is an informal consortium of association executives who support faith-inspired colleges and universities. The semi-annual ECRHE meetings provide an opportunity for ecumenical cooperation and coordination among the associations and an occasion for the association executives to discuss among peers the challenges and opportunities faced by their organizations and their member colleges and universities.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the only national organization solely focused on representing private, non-profit higher education on public policy issues in Washington, D.C. As one of the six major presidential higher education associations, NAICU’s institutional membership is comprised of presidents from accredited private, non-profit colleges and universities.
Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center is a center of excellence, cultivating spiritual growth, recreation, and learning in an inclusive environment of natural beauty, hospitality, and peace. We invite all to experience God through education, exploration, and inspiration.