GLOBAL POSITIONING
Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees

AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 26-29, 2011
San Francisco, California / Hyatt Regency Hotel

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

Campus Labs
Campus Labs (formerly StudentVoice) is the leader in providing innovative web-based technology, assessment resources, and expert consultation to colleges and universities across North America. Campus Labs provides the means to organize assessment activities, collect data, benchmark with peer campuses, and report outcomes in meaningful ways. Through the utilization of the Campus Labs assessment platform, colleges and universities are able to measure student learning, enhance programs and services, and ensure student success.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source for news, jobs, and information for college and university faculty and administrators around the world. Designed to keep readers on the forefront of academic knowledge, The Chronicle delivers the latest news in information technology, distance education, management, finance, and policy. The Chronicle enhances collaboration and dialogue online through blogs, discussion boards, career resources, and other content used by 1.7 million unique visitors online each month, and more than 350,000 readers in print each week. The Chronicle is the preeminent news resource in academe and the only academic resource you need.

Council On Undergraduate Research
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals share a focus on providing undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at all institutions serving undergraduate students. CUR believes that faculty members enhance their teaching and contribution to society by remaining active in research and by involving undergraduates in research. CUR’s leadership works with agencies and foundations to enhance research opportunities for faculty and students; provides support for faculty development; develops publications and outreach activities designed to share successful models and strategies for establishing and institutionalizing undergraduate research programs; and provides information on the importance of undergraduate research to state legislatures, private foundations, government agencies, and the U.S. Congress.

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.

Foliotek
Foliotek uses a multi-portfolio design to meet the diverse needs of academic programs planning to use student portfolios for student learning, student assessment, program improvement, and job placement. Foliotek’s ease of use and wealth of time-saving features help to eliminate barriers to acceptance faced by schools that are planning to implement improved assessment/accreditation systems.

The Idea Center
Celebrating 35 years of service to higher education, The IDEA Center provides tools to assess and improve teaching, learning, and administrative leadership. Its primary service, the Student Ratings of Instruction system, can service both individual and program improvement/evaluation efforts. We also have feedback instruments to rate department chairs and other administrators.

Jossey-Bass
Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, provides books, periodicals, online professional development, other media to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations and their communities.  Jossey-Bass' publications feature the work of some of the world's best-known authors in leadership, business, education, religion and spirituality, parenting, nonprofit, public health and health administration, conflict resolution and relationships. 

Knewton has developed the world’s first Adaptive Learning Platform™, which customizes educational content to create a uniquely personalized learning path for every student. With learning solutions powered by Knewton, colleges across the country are raising readiness rates, increasing student retention, and ensuring first-year success.

Latinos in Higher Ed
LatinosinHigherEd.com is the first Latino professional employment web site designed specifically for the higher education community. It was launched in response to a growing concern about the need to promote career opportunities in higher education for the growing Latino population and helps employers connect with the largest pool of Latino professionals in higher education in the United States, Puerto Rico and internationally by disseminating employment opportunities to registered candidates and a national network of Latino-serving organizations and listservs.

LiveText
LiveText provides e-Portfolio, learning assessment, and accreditation management web tools, expert consulting services, and broad support services to continuously improve higher education. LiveText's standards-based learning assessment and Accreditation Management System™ provides the most comprehensive, flexible, and easy-to-use web-based tools for developing, assessing, and measuring student learning.

The New York Times
As a vibrant daily record of history in the making, The New York Times can ignite student interest by linking learning to living – serving the ideals of today’s demanding educational aims by spurring critical thinking, increasing local and global awareness and fostering a more informed and engaged citizenry. For more information please contact The New York Times in College; call (866) 776-3698 or send an e-mail to edu@nytimes.com .

Rosetta Stone
Provide all students with the world language skills needed for the 21st century economy. Rosetta Stone® Classroom delivers language-learning capabilities to college campuses across the nation. Our breakthrough technology enables effective, engaging instruction in 20+ world languages. Visit our booth to discuss groundbreaking language solutions for your campus.

Study Group
Study Group is a global leader in the provision of university preparation and English language training for international students across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The Group delivers programs at its own Taylors Colleges in Australia and New Zealand and its Bellerbys Colleges in the UK, as well as at its 18 International Study Centers on university campuses across the UK and the US. Study Group is internationally recognized for its university brand stewardship and record of academic quality and reliability (90%+ progression rates). Study Group has an unrivalled global marketing network of 30 Regional Offices worldwide recruiting 55,000 students from over 140 countries each year

TaskStream
TaskStream empowers institutions to go beyond compliance and establish a culture of continuous improvement. We provide the highest quality web-based software and supporting services to efficiently plan and manage assessment processes and facilitate the demonstration of learning achievement. Using TaskStream's powerful tools for assessment and accreditation planning, outcomes alignment, e-portfolios, rubric-based data collection and reporting, field placement management, surveys, and more, educators around the world are ensuring that students are learning the skills and knowledge they need to be successful.

Waypoint Outcomes
Waypoint Outcomes helps educators create rich, timely feedback for students while generating authentic outcomes data. Featuring customizable, interactive rubrics aligned with the institution’s learning outcomes, Waypoint is tightly integrated with Blackboard, eCollege, and Moodle. Featuring a flexible licensing model that encourages early adopters, Waypoint is utilized by colleges of education, engineering, business, the health sciences, and liberal arts. These academic disciplines use Waypoint in a variety of ways, from traditional to course-embedded assessment. The resulting outcomes data can be easily aggregated and reported at multiple levels, helping institutions close the loop on assessment while improving student engagement and retention.

Friends

Academic Management Systems
Student evaluations of courses and instructors are a fact of administrative and teaching life in American higher education—sometimes but not always a happy fact. CoursEval is a software system designed for academic environments that provides the key tools to manage vital evaluation tasks quickly, easily, and affordably. CoursEval reports offer the kind of clear, powerful data that instructors, chairs, deans and provosts need to stimulate improvement in campus teaching and learning. For a free semester “pilot” email Brian Hopewell or call at (716) 867-8434.

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. 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.

Epsilen Environment is an innovative global eLearning system that combines the best practices of course delivery with fully-integrated ePortfolios and Web 2.0 social networking. Delivered cost effectively through a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, Epsilen is supported by outstanding customer service. Epsilen is majority-owned by The New York Times Company

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.

The Philadelphia Center
The Philadelphia Center (TPC) is one of the nation's oldest experiential education programs. Since 1967, TPC has helped more than 6,500 students from over 80 colleges and 50 countries discover their personal and professional direction in life. We have over 800 internships available for almost any major and offer students a 16 week semester program and an 8 week summer program.

RCampus
RCampus ePortfolio Management System is an intuitive approach to authentic assessment needs. RCampus provides a simplified environment for structured collection of evidence while promoting student creativity through multiple ePortfolios. At its cornerstone, our award-winning iRubric Assessment system enables seamless evaluation, data collection, feedback, and analysis in a comprehensive package. With H.D. Matrices, schools can easily collect, aggregate and assess the best work of students with ease. Available through flexible hosting and licensing options, RCampus ePortolios by Reazon Systems, Inc. was a finalist for High-Tech Innovation Awards in 2010.

Stylus Publishing
Founded in 1996, Stylus publishes books and journals that focus on higher education, and books on inclusive teaching in K-12. Our higher education program covers such areas as teaching and learning, service learning, assessment, online learning, racial diversity on campus, women's issues, student affairs, doctoral education, and leadership and administration.

Tk20
Tk20 is a leading provider of CampusWide systems for strategic planning, assessments, institutional effectiveness and student retention. Our systems allow detailed planning for the meeting of institutional goals and objectives, comprehensive, customized assessment, data integration with other systems on campus, and seamless reporting for accreditation and unit improvement on system-wide institutional performance

For More Information about the Sponsorship Program

Please contact the Development Office at (202) 884-7421 or e-mail development@aacu.org.