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AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 20-23, 2010
Washington, DC

The Association of American Colleges and Universities thanks the following sponsors for their generous support of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting.  Most will have representatives at the January meeting, and we invite you to take this opportunity to become more familiar with their products and services. 

Contributing Sponsors

Blackboard
Blackboard Inc. is a global leader in innovative solutions that improve the experience of millions of students and learners around the world every day. Blackboard's solutions allow higher education institutions to extend teaching and learning online, engage learners anytime, anywhere through their mobile devices, and communicate more effectively with their communities.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source for news and jobs for the faculty members and administrators who run America's colleges and universities. The Chronicle covers news and trends in student learning and assessment, admissions and financial aid, government actions, and much more. It also publishes Chronicle Careers, the largest job marketplace in higher education. Sign up for your free account at Chronicle.com/myaccount to read articles, search for jobs, and get free e-mail newsletters sent directly to your inbox.

DIVERSE:  Issues In Higher Education
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has been America’s premier source of timely news, provocative commentary, insightful interviews, and in-depth special reports on diversity in higher education for over two decades. Leaders from academe, industry, and public policy have all come to rely on this award-winning news magazine to stay abreast of the trends and issues that go to the very core of the future of this country and its place in an ever-changing world.

Inside Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed is the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Breaking news, lively commentary, and thousands of job listings draw an engaged readership of more than 500,000 each month. Daily. Online. Free. Ahead of the curve. Join the new conversation in higher education at insidehighered.com

The IDEA Center
The IDEA Center, a non-profit corporation, provides services to higher education to support the improvement of teaching, learning, and administrative performance.  Its primary service, the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system, is a tool that can service both individual and program improvement/evaluation efforts. Also available are feedback instruments to support improvement efforts of department chairs, deans, and other administrators.

Waypoint Outcomes
To develop authentic data on student learning, schools must assess students on complex tasks. Waypoint Outcomes features customizable, interactive rubrics, aligned with learning outcomes, which help faculty create exceptional feedback for students in just a few mouse clicks. The resulting data can be easily aggregated and reported at multiple levels.

For over 40 years Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, has been publishing books, periodicals, and other media to inform and inspire professionals in the academic community. We are also a proud publishing partner of AAC&U, and our first joint publication – Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures by Julie Thompson Klein – will release December 2009.

Friends

Academic Management Systems
Academic Management Systems is an information technology company started by academic administrators intent on creating affordable software solutions needed by other academic administrators in higher education and professional education.  Designing the solution derives from understanding the problem!  AMS software solutions are focused on assessment (CoursEval), enrollment management (AdMit), and health profession program management (SiteAssign).

Data 180
Data180 provides flexible, web-based solutions for academe. Data180’s Folio180 brings unparalleled energy and opportunity to student learning and development, and to institutional mentoring and enabling. From resumes and multimedia e-portfolios to co-curricular transcripts and assessment management systems, Folio 180 empowers students and academic institutions without limits. Data180’s Faculty180 gives faculty and staff the control to automate faculty activity data collection and reporting with prompts and process management tools built right in. With Faculty180, supporting all stakeholders becomes simple and easy.

Digication
Designed by educators, for educators, Digication is a leading provider of easy-to-use e-Portfolio solutions for higher education institutions. Students at more than 2,000 schools use Digication e-Portfolios as a workspace for learning and to easily, flexibly and professionally showcase their work and achievements across schools and districts. E-Portfolios create new opportunities for learning, reflection, communication, assessment, and career advancement. Integrated tightly with the company’s award winning e-Portfolio system is the Assessment Management System.

IDP Education
IDP Education is the world's largest student placement firm, with more than 70 company-owned counseling centers in 24 countries, staffed by professional counselors. Beginning in Fall 2010, IDP will add the United States as a destination for its Asian and Middle Eastern students. For more information, visit www.usa.idp.com

LiveText
LiveText is a leading provider of learning assessment and accreditation management web tools, expert consulting services, and broad support services for colleges and universities facing the challenges of assessing student learning, evaluating programs, and planning for accreditation. LiveText's standards-based learning assessment and Accreditation Management System™ provides the most advanced, flexible, and intuitive web-based tools for developing, assessing, and measuring student learning and program evaluation.  LiveText services are founded on a collaborative user community that connects students, faculty, and administrators, supports the analysis of long range standards-based learning, and facilitates continuous student, curriculum, and program assessment.

Nuventive
Nuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing and demonstrating continuous improvement in education. Our enterprise suite of software solutions: TracDat for enterprise assessment management and integrated planning; Insight for presenting and communicating programmatic and institution-wide initiatives; and iWebfolio for electronic portfolio solutions; equip individuals and organizations to better understand, assess, improve, and communicate personal and institutional improvement.

rSmart
rSmart, the provider of enterprise support for open source application software in education, develops, certifies, tests, deploys and supports a suite of enterprise financial and collaboration and learning applications for colleges, universities, and K-12 institutions. As an active member, contributor, and commercial affiliate of the Kuali and Sakai projects, rSmart provides software applications and commercial support designed to meet unique needs of educational institutions.

SmartCatalog System
The SmartCatalog System helps you manage and publish print and online catalogs. Users simply login and indicate their revisions. Every change and user is tracked for complete confidence and accuracy. When changes are complete, the SmartCatalog  System produces the best web catalogs on the market with a higher level of ADA compliance and search engine optimization. The SmartCatalog System can integrate with all major student information systems

Stylus Publishing
Stylus publishes books and journals that focus on higher education. Our program covers such areas as teaching and learning, assessment, online learning, racial diversity on campus, women’s issues, student affairs, and leadership and administration in higher education. We aim to publish practical books, and books that promote the exchange of ideas, and employ theory and research to promote effective practice.

TaskStream –Advancing Educational Excellence
TaskStream provides web-based solutions to manage outcomes assessment. The Accountability Management System (AMS) by TaskStream offers an efficient and effective way to plan, document, and analyze student learning outcomes, assessment methods, findings and plans for improvement, eliminating the challenges associated with managing accountability processes institution-wide. The Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) by TaskStream facilitates the demonstration and assessment of student performance with innovative tools for electronic portfolios, rubric scoring, data reporting and analysis, field placement management and surveying. Our industry leadership is based on the unparalleled supporting services we provide to all users and our commitment to promoting learner-centered education.

Tk20
Tk20’s CampusWide is a comprehensive assessment and reporting system for collecting and managing your program, departmental, and institutional data, both academic and non-academic, for the measurement of accountability, institutional effectiveness, and for accreditation. In addition, Tk20’s upgradeable solution offers surveys, course evaluations, document storage, course management, tracking of faculty activity, electronic portfolios, field placement, and advisement.