Mission:

• An association of research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.

President:

• Robert M Berdahl

Employees & Expenditures:

• 23 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, AAU had total expenditures of $4,575,036 compared to $4,053,516  in 2005

Website:

• http://www.aau.edu

About Them:

• The primary purpose of AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies promoting strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.
• AAU members include 60 American universities and two Canadian universities.

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Mission:

• The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges strengthens and protects this country’s unique form of institutions governance through the research, services, and advocacy. AGB is committed to citizen trusteeship of American higher education.

President:

• Richard D. Legon

Employees & Expenditures:

• 34 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, AGB had total expenditures of $6,747,892 compared to $6,153,973 in 2005

Website

• http://www.agb.org/

About Them:

• AGB is the only national association that serves the interests and needs of academic governing boards, boards of institutionally related foundations, and campus CEOs and other senior-level campus administrators on issues related to higher education governance and leadership.
• AGB’s programs focus on:
• Strengthening partnerships between presidents and governing boards
• Defining and clarifying the responsibilities of governing board members
• Providing guidance to trustees, board leaders, and campus leaders in their governance-related roles
• Encouraging a level of professionalism for trusteeship, a voluntary function
• Monitoring issues that affect higher education and governance and providing guidance for boards and campus leaders
• Fostering cooperation among all education stakeholders

Sample Publications:

• Trusteeship, a bi-monthly magazine reporting on trends, issues, and practices in higher education that can help board members and chief executives better understand their distinctive and complementary roles and to strengthen board performance.
• Ten Public Policy Issues for Higher Education, 2007-2008
• The Information Mosaic:  Strategic Decision Making for Universities and Colleges
• Making the Grade:  How Boards Can Ensure Academic Quality
• For a list of other AGB publications, visit the AGB bookstore at http://www.agb.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=527

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Mission:

• To sustain the integrity of higher education by establishing standards for accrediting higher education programs focused on liberal learning in areas such as history, mathematics, science, literature, languages and philosophy, and by accrediting institutions based on these standards.

President:

• Dr. Jeffrey Wallin

Employees & Expenditures:

• 5 full-time employees
• In the 2001 fiscal year (the most recent year with available data), AALE had total expenditures of $1,211,252, compared to $929,245 in 2000

Website:

• http//www.aale.org

About Them:

• The AALE focuses exclusively on undergraduate level liberal arts colleges and programs within colleges.  Additionally, AALE is a national accreditor of charter schools.

Publications:

• Two Approaches to Constructing a Liberal Education
• Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century
• Discerning is More Than Counting

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Mission:

• To provide professional development, guidelines and voluntary standards to be used by higher education officials regarding the best practices in records management, admissions, enrollment management, administrative information technology and student services.

Executive Director:

• Jerome Sullivan

Employees & Expenditures:

• 36 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, AACRAO’s total expenditures were $6,295,553, compared to $5,341,584 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.aacrao.org

About Them:

• AACRAO is a nonprofit, voluntary, professional association of more than 10,000 higher education admissions and registration professionals who represent approximately 2,500 institutions in more than 30 countries.
• AACRAO has developed programs and held meetings, forums and workshops on federal regulatory and compliance issues, congressional and federal agency activity, and higher education coverage in the national news.

Sample Publications:

• College & University, a quarterly journal
• The College Admissions Officer’s Guide
• Managing for Outcomes:  Shifting from Process-Centric to Results-Oriented Operations
• Academic Dishonesty, Developing and Implementing Institutional Policy
• For a list of other AACRAO publications, visit http://www.aacrao.org/publications/

 

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Mission:

• To extend higher education to all citizens of the United States.

President:

• Constantine W. Curris

Employees & Expenditures:

• 41 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, AASCU had total expenditures of $10,476,183, compared to $10,209,118 in 2005

Website:

• http://www.aascu.org

About Them:

• The primary goals of AASCU are:
• To promote appreciation and support for public higher education and the distinctive contributions of our member colleges and universities;
• To analyze public policy, and to advocate for member institutions and the students they serve;
• To provide policy leadership and program support to strengthen academic quality, promote access and inclusion, and facilitate educational innovation; and,
• To create professional development opportunities for institutional leaders, especially presidents, chancellors and their spouses.
• AASCU represents more than 400 public colleges, universities and systems of higher education throughout the United States and its territories.
• AASCU schools enroll more than three million students or 56 percent of the students enrolled at all public four-year institutions.

Publications:

• Public Purpose, a magazine

 

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Mission:

To advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.

President:

• Cary Nelson

Employees & Expenditures:

• 38 full-time employees
• In the 2005 fiscal year, AAUP had total expenditures of $5,477,698 compared to $5,508,109 in 2004

Website:

• http://www.aaup.org

About Them:

• Founded in 1915, the AAUP has about 45,000 members at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
• AAUP assists individual faculty members when there is a possibility that academic freedom or due process rights have been violated.
• AAUP has issued statements on the following topics: academic freedom, distance education, diversity and affirmative action, faculty compensation and workload, graduate student education, intellectual property, tenure and retirement, and work and family policies.

Sample Publications:

• Academe, a bimonthly magazine
• AAUP in Action and Faculty Matters, member newsletters
• For a list of other AAUP publications, visit http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/

 

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Mission:

• To work systematically with alumni, donors, trustees and education leaders across the country to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives a philosophically-balanced, open-minded, high-quality education at an affordable price.

President:

• Anne D. Neal

Employees & Expenditures:

• 5 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, ACTA had total expenditures of $869,527, compared to $786,377 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.goacta.org

About Them:

• Since 1995, ACTA has been working with college and university trustees to ensure responsible management of higher education resources, end grade inflation, establish a solid core curriculum, and restore intellectual diversity on campus.
• ACTA’s conducts specific programs for alumni, trustees, and state leaders. Among these programs are the ATHENA Roundtable, an annual gathering of education leaders and trustees to discuss critical issues facing higher education, and the Governor’s Project, a national effort to encourage reform-minded governors to challenge the current direction of higher education in their states.
• ACTA acts as a voice for college and university alumni on issues that are threatening academic freedom.

Publications:

• Inside Academe, a quarterly newsletter
• The Intelligent Donor’s Guide to College Giving
• Educating Teachers: The Best Minds Speak Out
• Teachers Who Can: How Informed Trustees Can Ensure Teacher Quality

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Mission:

• To serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and to influence higher education public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives.

President:

• David Ward

Employees & Expenditures:

• 213 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, ACE had total expenditures of $44,793,586, compared to $39,515,650 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.acenet.edu

About Them:

• Founded in 1918, the American Council on Education helps colleges and universities anticipate and address the challenges of the 21st century.
• ACE membership base includes approximately 1,800 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education-related associations, organizations, and corporations.
• ACE’s areas of focus include:
• Access, Success, Equity, and Diversity
• Institutional Effectiveness
• Lifelong Learning
• Internationalization
• Publications:
• Higher Education & National Affairs, an online newsletter

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Mission:

• To support educational excellence with quality leadership and professional management through education, research, and recognition and to maintain, protect, and promote the quality of educational facilities.
• Executive Vice President:
• E. Lander Medlin

Employees & Expenditures:

• 16 full-time employees
• In the 2006 fiscal year, APPA had total expenditures of $3,723,905, compared to $3,732,068 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.appa.org

About Them:

• APPA is an international association dedicated to maintaining, protecting, and promoting the quality of educational facilities and represents more than 1,500 learning institutions serving over 4,700 individuals.
• APPA provides continuing education programs for expanding the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in physical plant management and provide annual leadership forums where facilities managers can exchange information and attend sessions to advance skills

Publications:

• Facilities Manager, a magazine
• Inside APPA, a bi-monthly online newsletter
• Buildings … The Gifts That Keep on Taking
• Leadership in Educational Facilities Administration

 

 

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Mission:

• To support individuals, provide fora, and develop initiatives that advance and strengthen the integrated common study of world classics and texts of major cultural significance.

President:

• Phillip Sloan

Employees & Expenditures:

• No full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2005, ACTC had total expenditures of $249,375, compared to $180,913 in 2004

Website:

• http://www.coretexts.org

About Them:

• ACTC is a membership driven professional association concerned with the improvement of liberal education through the use of core texts.
• Every year ACTC holds an annual conference that brings together humanists, artists, social scientists, and scientists to share their concerns for liberal education.
• ACTC runs a “Liberal Arts Institute” at Saint Mary’s College, which provides help to faculty and administrators in the development of core programs as well as baccalaureate degree programs.

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Mission:

• To make the aims of liberal learning a vigorous and constant influence on institutional purpose and educational practice in higher education.

President:

• Carol Geary Schneider

Employees & Expenditures:

• 59 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, AACU had total expenditures of $6,386,316, compared to $6,218,579 in 2005. 

Website:

• http://www.aacu.org

About Them:

• AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.
• Founded in 1915 by college presidents, AAC&U now represents the entire spectrum of American colleges and universities—large and small, public and private, two-year and four-year. AAC&U comprises more than 1,150 accredited colleges and universities that collectively educate more than five million students every year.
• AACU organizes its work around five broad goals:
• A Guiding Vision for Liberal Education
• Inclusive Excellence
• Intentional and Integrative Learning
• Civic, Diversity and Global Engagement
• Authentic Evidence

Sample Publications:

• Liberal Education, a quarterly magazine
• Peer Review, a quarterly briefing on emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate liberal education
• On Campus with Women, a quarterly online newsletter
• For a list of other AAC&U publications, visit http://www.aacu.org/publications/index.cfm

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Mission:

• To revive the study of free institutions and free societies as a major concern of American higher education and to promote civic education at all instructional levels.

President:

• Bradford Wilson

Employees & Expenditures:

• One employee
• Not available (organization was newly created in 2007)

Website:

• http://www.freestudies.org

About Them:

• The association encourages research and discussion on an interdisciplinary basis, encompassing political science, history, constitutional scholarship, philosophy, and economics, as well as other scholarly communities less traditionally focused on freedom, such as psychology, anthropology, education, and religion.
• ASFI knits together scholars and programs sharing an interest in, and an appreciation of, free institutions, but also possessing the critical capacity to seek an understanding of the costs of freedom, the forces which work to unravel it, and why free institutions and free societies have failed to take strong root in much of the world.

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Mission:

• To research the issues of rising costs and stagnant efficiency in higher education, with a special emphasis on the United States.

Director:

• Dr. Richard Vedder

Employees & Expenditures:

• Two employees
• The organization is too new to have its financials available.

Website:

• http://www.collegeaffordability.net

About Them:

• They exists to help facilitate a broader dialogue on the issues and problems facing our institutes of higher education.
• CCAP does research on federal student aid, productivity of faculty members, and causes of higher education inefficiencies.

Publications:

• Over Invested and Over Priced: American Higher Education Today

 

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Mission:

• To advance and support educational institutions around the world by enhancing the effectiveness of the alumni relations, communications, marketing, fundraising, and other advancement professionals who serve them.

President:

• John Lippincott

Employees & Expenditures:

• 81 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, CASE had total expenditures of $14,505,367 compared to $13,614,384 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.case.org

About Them:

• Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals at all levels who work in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing and other areas. CASE's membership includes more than 3,300 colleges, universities, independent elementary and secondary schools, and educational associates in 59 countries around the world.
• The Council for Advancement and Support of Education believes there are three core disciplines of educational advancement: alumni relations, communications and marketing, and development (fundraising).
• CASE focuses on programs that help its members build strong relationship with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education.

Sample Publications:

• Currents, a monthly magazine
• Advancing Small Colleges
• Baseball, Fundraising and the 80/20 Rule
• Intentional Stewardship:  Bringing Your Donors to Their Highest Level of Philanthropy
• For a list of other CASE publications, visit the CASE Bookstore at http://www.case.org/container.cfm?CONTAINERID=77&CRUMB=2&NAVID=61

 

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Mission:

• The mission of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is:
• To establish, adopt, and disseminate unified and timely professional standards to guide student learning and development support programs and services and related higher education initiatives.
• To promote the assessment and improvement of higher education services and programs through self-study, evaluation, and the use of CAS standards.
• To establish, adopt, and disseminate unified and timely professional preparation standards for the education of student affairs practitioners.
• To promote the assessment and improvement of professional preparation graduate programs for student affairs administrators through the use of CAS standards for assessment, evaluation, and self-study purposes.
• To advance the use and importance of professional standards among practitioners and educators in higher education.
• To develop and provide materials to assist and support practitioners and educators in the use of professional standards in higher education.
• To promote and encourage public and private higher education systems and institutions to focus attention on the assurance of quality in all educational endeavors.
• To promote inter-association efforts to address the issues of quality assurance, student learning and development, and professional integrity in higher education.

Part-time Director:

• Phyliss Mable

Employees & Expenditures:

• No full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, CAS had total expenditures of $204,674 compared to $134,342 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.cas.edu

About Them:

• The CAS has developed a list of standards and guidelines to identify criteria and principles by which institutions may choose to assess and enhance various areas of their academic, administrative, or student affairs programs and services.
• CAS is an international consortium of over 35 major higher education associations devoted to the establishment and dissemination of standards and the enhancement of student learning.

Publications:

• Professional Standards for Higher Education
• Frameworks for Assessing Learning and Development Outcomes

 

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Mission:

• Advancing independent higher education and its leadership

President:

• Richard Ekman

Employees & Expenditures:

• 21 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006-2007, CIC had total expenditures of $4,390,715, as compared to $4,088,636 in fiscal year 2005-2006

Website:

• http://www.cic.edu

About Them:

• CIC is a major national service organization for all small and mid-sized, independent, liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States.
• CIC’s focus is on providing support to college and university leadership, advancing institutional excellence, and enhancing higher education’s contributions to society.
• CIC provides services to campus leaders as well as seminars, workshops, and programs that assist institutions in improving educational programs, administrative and financial performance, and institutional visibility.

Sample Publications:

• Independent, CIC’s newsletter
• Business and the Liberal Arts:  Integrating Professional and Liberal Education
• Presidential Transitions in Private Colleges
• For a list of other CIC publications, visit http://www.cic.edu/publications/books_reports/index.asp

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Mission:

• Achieving real, measurable impact in education, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation’s most pressing education problems.

Co-directors:

• Andrew Rotherham
• Thomas Toch

Employees & Expenditures:

• 12 full-time employees
• Expenditures for their first year of operation were $504,288.

Website:

• http://www.educationsector.org

About Them:

• Education Sector provides policy makers, the general public and the press with the information and analysis necessary to understand the educational challenges the country is facing as well as how these issues can be addressed

Publications:

• Leading Lady:  Sallie Mae and the Origins of Today’s Student Loan Controversy
• College Rankings Reformed
• ES Review, a periodic journal

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Mission:

• To promote the study and love of American history.

President:

• James Basker

Employees & Expenditures:

• 34 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, the Gilder Lehrman Institute had total expenditures of $8,739,025, compared to $8,131,427 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.gilderlehrman.org

About Them:

• In order to succeed at promoting the study and love of American history, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general pubic by creating history centered schools and academic research centers, organizing seminars and enrichment programs, producing print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsoring lectures, and administering a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state.

Publications:

• Early American Abolitionists
• Slavery in the Founding Era
• Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
• For a list of other Institute publications, visit their History Shop at http://www.gilderlehrmanstore.org/

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Mission:

• To revitalize the study and teaching of history by reorienting the historical profession toward an accessible, integrated, history free from fragmentation and over-specialization.

President:

• Eric Arnesen

Employees & Expenditures:

• 8 officers
• Information on expenditures is not available

Website:

• http://www.bu.edu/historic

About Them:

• The Society promotes frank debate in an atmosphere of civility, mutual respect, and common courtesy. All we require is that participants lay down plausible premises, reason logically, appeal to evidence, and prepare for exchanges with those who hold different points of view.
• The Historical Society conducts activities that are intellectually profitable, providing a forum where economic, political, intellectual, social, and other historians can exchange ideas and contribute to each other’s work.

Publications:

• Historically Speaking, a bi-monthly publication
• The Journal of the Historical Society, a quarterly journal

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Mission:

• To increase access and success in postsecondary education around the world through unique research and innovative programs that inform key decision makers who shape public policy and support economic and social development.

President:

• Thomas Parker

Employees & Expenditures:

• 18 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2005 year, IHEP had total expenditures of $4,317,279 compared to $2,799,967 in 2004.

Website:

• http://www.ihep.org

About Them:

• IHEP serves as a resource for government agencies, higher education organizations, philanthropic foundations, and others committed to increasing access and success in postsecondary education. It offers policy recommendations and unique research to address complex issues facing higher education and to help people reach their full potential by participating and succeeding in postsecondary education.
• A top IHEP policy center is the Global Center on Private Financing of Higher Education.
• Sample Publications:
• Increasing Student Success at Minority-Serving Institutions
• College and University Ranking Systems:  Global Perspectives and American Challenges
• The Global State of Higher Education and the Rise of Private Finance
• For a list of other IHEP publications, visit http://www.ihep.org/Publications/view-all-publications.cfm

 

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Mission:

• To convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of and appreciation for the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.

President:

• T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Employees & Expenditures:

• 52 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2007, ISI had total expenditures of $12,824,611, compared to $11,009,595 in 2006.

Website:

• http://www.isi.org

About Them:

• Since ISI’s founding in 1953, the institute has been working “to educate for liberty.”
• ISI seeks to enhance our nation’s founding principles, which include limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, rule of law, market economy, and moral norms.
• Through its integrated program of lectures, conferences, publications, and fellowships, the Institute annually works with hundreds of thousands of students and faculty from coast to coast. An array of free publications and other resources is available to students and teachers.

Sample Publications:

• Intercollegiate Review, a bi-yearly journal of “scholarship and opinion”
• Modern Age, a quarterly journal for conservative thinkers
• The Political Science Reviewer, an annual journal of political philosophy
• Choosing the Right College:  2008-2009
• For a list of other ISI publications, visit http://www.isi.org/books/index.aspx

 

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Mission:

• To increase the diversity of ideas taught, debated, and discussed on campus, to improve the quality of teaching, to increase student’s commitment to learning, and encourage cost-effective administration and governance.
• Executive Vice President:
• Jane Shaw

Employees & Expenditures:

• 7 full- and part-time employees
• In fiscal year 2005, the Pope Center had total expenditures of $325,957, compared to $413,455 in 2004

Website:

• http://www.popecenter.org

About Them:

• Pope Center projects include critical analyses and reports on higher education issues, with a particular emphasis on North Carolina.
• To accomplish their mission, the center informs parents, students, trustees, alumni and administrators about actual learning on campus, informs taxpayers about the use and impact of their funds, finds ways to acquaint students with ideas that are dismissed or marginalized on campuses, and acts as a watchdog for legislative and administrative governance.
• The Pope Center addresses such issues as: academic freedom and student rights, admissions, alternative solutions, athletics, community colleges, curriculum, diversity, faculty compensation, faculty productivity, state appropriations and tuition, student fees, and university spending.

Sample Publications:

• Legal Education in North Carolina
• To Be or Not to Be:  Shakespeare in the English Department
• Student Activity Fees:  Who Gets What and Who Decides?
• For a list of other John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy publications, visit http://www.popecenter.org/inquiry_papers/index.html

 

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Mission:

• To advance the economic viability and business practices of higher education institutions in fulfillment of their academic missions.

President:

• John Walda

Employees & Expenditures:

• 54 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, NACUBO had total expenditures of $13,198,409.

Website:

• http://www.nacubo.org

About Them:

• NACUBO is located in Washington, DC and serves a membership of more than 2,500 colleges, universities, and higher education service providers across the country.
• They offer professional development programs that include accounting, finance, tax, campus operations, student financial services, information technology, leadership, and management.

Sample Publications:

• Business Officer, a monthly magazine
• College and University Business Administration
• What Leaders Need to Know and Do
• Yearly NACUBO Endowment Studies
• For a list of other NACUBO publications, visit the NACUBO bookstore at http://www.nacubo.org/x43.xml  

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Mission:

• To serve as the unified national voice of independent higher education.

President:

• David L. Warren

Employees & Expenditures:

• 21 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, NAICU had total expenditures of $4,657,151 compared to $4,543,201 in 2005

Website:

• http://www.naicu.edu

About Them:

• Since 1976, the association has represented private colleges and universities on policy issues with the federal government, such as those affecting student aid, taxation, and government regulation.
• NAICU has nearly 1,000 members nationwide.  The members represent traditional liberal arts colleges, major research universities, church- and faith-related institutions, historically black colleges and universities, women's colleges, performing and visual arts institutions, two-year colleges, and schools of law, medicine, engineering, business, and other professions.
• The NAICU staff meets with policymakers, tracks campus trends, conducts research, analyzes higher education issues, publishes information, helps coordinate state-level activities, and advises members of legislative and regulatory developments with potential impact on their institutions.

Publications:

• Your Voice, Your Vote
• Twelve Facts That May Surprise You About America’s Private Colleges and Universities

 

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Mission:

• To restore intellectual substance, individual merit, and academic freedom in the university.

President:

• Stephen H. Balch

Employees & Expenditures:

• 10 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, NAS had total expenditures of $1,897,933, compared to $1,422,967  in 2005

Website:

• http://www.nas.org

About Them:

• NAS is an independent membership association of academics working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities.
• NAS serves as a watchdog on issues related to intellectual integrity in the curriculum, in the classroom, and across the campus.
• Located in Princeton, NAS has forty-six state affiliates and five thousand professors, graduate students, administrators, and trustees as members and associate members.
• NAS focuses on ideological litmus tests in faculty hiring and confronts trivialized curricula, hollow baccalaureate requirements, restrictive speech and ‘civility’ codes, self-dealing administrators, violators of academic freedom, phony allegations intended to silence opposition, the post-modernist evisceration of the humanities, and politicized science.

Publications:

• Academic Questions, a quarterly journal

 

Student Press Law Center (SPLC)

Mission:

• To be an advocate for student free-press rights and to provide information, advice, and legal assistance at no charge to students and the educators who work with them.
• Executive Director:
• Frank LoMonte

Employees & Expenditures:

• 7 full-time employees
• In fiscal year 2006, SPLC had total expenditures of $498,122, compared to $469,974 in 2005.

Website:

• http://www.splc.org

About Them:

• SPLC acts as the nation’s only legal assistance agency that educates high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities of the First Amendment. SPLC also provide free legal advice while operating a formal Attorney Referral Network of approximately 150 lawyers. 
• SPLC co-sponsors the Courage in Student Journalism Awards with the Newseum and National Scholastic Press Association.

Publications:

• SPLC Report, a quarterly newsletter