The WAICU Academic Programs Services model, built in collaboration with Rize Education, provides WAICU member institutions with affordable access to in-demand, high-quality academic programs through course-sharing. The strategic partnership will help Wisconsin colleges and universities adapt to the changing needs of students and the workforce.

Rize is a leading provider of online program-sharing solutions, specializing in the development of majors, minors and concentrations in high-demand fields such as Cybersecurity and Business Analytics. By leveraging their expertise, colleges can maximize enrollment revenue, enhance student retention rates, and improve overall student satisfaction.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org

Genio creates better learners. Our personal study app uses learning science to ensure learners don’t waste information that matters. Students capture everything from class, stay organized, review content at their own pace, and build personalized resources through a structured, AI-assisted learning process. Trusted by more than 750 institutions globally, Genio reduces waste in the learning experience and improves retention with struggling students. We’ve improved learning in over 1.6 million classes, empowering 100,000s of learners to reduce stress, boost confidence, and improve learning and grades. And it works: 91% of users improved and maintained their grades using Genio.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

WAICU Colleges have strategically partnered with CollegeSource to join the Transferology network, harnessing its array of features to enhance the transfer experience for both students and staff. Through Transferology, students gain access to a user-friendly interface where they can input their courses, exams, and military occupations to view how those credits transfer to WAICU member Colleges instantly. Students can also explore pre-established pathways that streamline their academic journey toward degree completion and request information and advising support.

For staff, Transferology offers tools for efficient course articulation, evaluating transfer credits through TES, and ensuring accuracy in the transfer process. By leveraging these features, WAICU Colleges not only prioritize student success but also benefit from being members through access to Transferology’s robust national network, which fosters collaboration and data-driven decision-making among member institutions.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Links
Support is available directly on the https://www.transferology.com and https://www.transferologylab.com websites.

Additionally, we offer free monthly training webinars for institution staff: https://collegesource.com/webinars/.

Airgas offers industrial, medical, and specialty gases, plus equipment and welding and safety supplies. Receive top-quality products and unmatched expertise through an integrated network of more than 1,400 branches, cylinder fill plants, production facilities, specialty gas laboratories, and distribution centers.

Established in 1978, LabRepCo is one of the largest consultative laboratory equipment sales organizations in the US. Their mission is to exceed the expectations of the scientific community and be the true solutions provider of laboratory equipment. LabRepCo offers the highest levels of professional expertise, over 40 years of industry experience, and quality products, providing the right solution for every lab environment:

• Life sciences equipment
• Clinical equipment
• Laboratory cold storage equipment
• Pharmaceutical equipment
• Biosafety and biotechnology equipment
• Lab animal research equipment
• New lab construction and setup
• Cryogenics
• Lab furniture
• Laboratory sterilizers

The Nikon Instruments contract offers the leading optical and digital imaging technology for biomedical, clinical, and research microscope applications. Access proprietary technologies through Nikon Microscope Solutions, the Nikon Instruments unit focused exclusively on serving research education. Advance your research efforts knowing these instruments meet the strictest quality standards. Nikon Instruments, Inc. is committed to helping further bioscience and imaging technology and is particularly focused on excellence in microscopy and digital image microscopy. As the only microscope company to manufacture its own glass, Nikon Instruments ensures the very strictest quality assurance throughout the entire production process.

As the channel brand of Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, VWR serves as a leading global provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, education, government, and healthcare industries. VWR offers an integrated, seamless purchasing experience that is optimized for the way you do business. Their portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development, and production activities in the industries they serve.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org

As the nation’s largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical and surgical supplies, Medline Industries, LP provides an extensive product offering backed by expedited support and controlled costs. This contract offers a full range of medical/surgical products, equipment, and apparel, innovative wound care products for athletes, and therapy and rehabilitation supplies. This contract also offers access to pharmaceuticals including vaccines, antibiotics, generic injectable drugs, OTCs, and vitamin supplements. Medline partners with you to create solutions that improve operating performance and reduce costs – no matter the size, location, or type of facility:

• Full scope coverage (medical/surgical, sports medicine/athletics, and pharmaceuticals) and access to catalog of over 335K items
• Access to vaccines for students and staff, antibiotics, vitamins, supplements, and OTC oral, topical, and ophthalmic products
• Flexible packing configurations tailored to department needs
• 98% on-time delivery rate – 42 distribution centers across the US, own their own fleet
• Medline’s logistics infrastructure supports next-day delivery of many items

Uwill is the leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students. Utilizing its proprietary technology and counselor team, Uwill pioneered the first student and therapist matching platform. The solution offers an immediate appointment with a licensed counselor based on student preferences, all modalities of teletherapy, a direct crisis connection 24/7/365, 24/7 urgent care, wellness events, real-time data, and support. Uwill supports more than 3 million students at 400+ institutions.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

WAICU has partnered with Sprintax to provide Nonresident Tax Preparation services and support for international students and scholars.  Tax can be a tricky topic for any nonresident to master.  This is especially true when tax-filing season rolls around.  After all, every nonresident in the US is required to file tax documents before the April 15^th deadline.  It can be hard to file a tax return correctly if you have never done so before. With that in mind, Sprintax is on hand to help!  They will prepare all necessary tax forms for you, including Form 8843, 1040-NR and state tax forms if applicable.  They can also assist with FICA and ITIN applications if needed.  E-filing is also available for federal returns on Sprintax, and there are many resources available, including 24/7 live chat assistance, free webinars are more.

How to contact Sprintax directly:
Students can access the 24/7 live chat on the Sprintax website when logged into their account, or can reach out by email to hello@sprintax.com.

Staff members at the school will always have access to Elvera King, Account Manager at eking@sprintax.com.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Strengthen your safety, well-being, and inclusion initiatives with high-impact training and higher education software solutions for students, faculty, and staff. Over 2000 colleges and universities trust Vector Solutions to empower faculty, staff, and students with relevant content and valuable strategies embedded in courses specifically designed for higher education. Spend less time on tedious administrative tasks thanks to intuitive features, such as analytics and reporting, customizations, and more!

Specializing in Title IX training, Catharsis Productions delivers truly engaging and interactive interpersonal violence prevention content that responds to each learner’s input in a conversational way, making each learner’s online experience unique. Catharsis programs are overwhelmingly preferred by students, faculty, and staff when asked to compare them to others. Catharsis trainings meet the VAWA/Clery/Title IX education requirements by addressing consent, bystander intervention, healthy relationships, sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. Catharsis provides easily accessible personalized client service and offers all the technical capabilities of much larger companies. 

Higher Education Licensure Pros LLC created The Bookmark as a one-stop solution for professional and occupational licensure research needs. Under federal Department of Education Title IV regulations and NC-SARA policy, institutions must certify that programs related to licensure meet educational requirements in every state/territory where students are located and provide certain disclosures. The Bookmark includes all of the information that institutions need for more than 80 license types for every U.S. state and territory, saving staff and faculty thousands of hours of research. The Bookmark membership also includes templates and resources for developing required licensure disclosures and policies, along with webinars on licensure-related topics throughout the year.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Student Health and Wellness Made Simple
CampusWell is a health and wellness program for colleges & universities across the US and Canada. Like you, they believe that student wellness is the key to academic success, and their goal is to help you deliver that message to more of your students through hyper-targeted digital media campaigns in the voice and on the channels that get the highest engagement.

Mission
CampusWell’s mission is to improve student health behaviors and unite the efforts of your student affairs departments to promote student success on your campus via heavily researched, evidence-based articles and videos. They aim to lighten the load of busy school administrators by providing them with a trustworthy, turnkey solution to health and wellness promotion. They also work to increase the visibility of your health messaging, engaging students both on- and off-campus, and to strengthen the effectiveness of your messaging using detailed analytics.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Gallagher Student Health, as WAICU’s approved partner, is dedicated to providing a Comprehensive ACA Compliant Health Insurance plan tailored for students attending WAICU member institutions. Gallagher’s services encompass a customized school website and waiver system, meticulously designed to enhance the student experience through intuitive navigation and real-time reporting capabilities for administrators. Utilizing advanced technology such as Sitecore and Salesforce CRM, our platform ensures security, Single Sign-On (SSO) capability, and compliance with SOC-2 certification, Website Compatibility and Access Guidelines (WCAG), and HIPAA standards, thus catering to students with disabilities.

With over three decades of experience in healthcare and insurance, Gallagher Student Health & Special Risk is committed to staying abreast of the latest industry trends and regulations. As specialists in student health and insurance, they leverage their expertise to provide comprehensive protection solutions, drawing upon the extensive resources and global reach of Arthur J. Gallagher, one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting firms.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org

For over 30 years, CISI has been at the forefront of providing a diverse range of comprehensive insurance products tailored to the international education market. Their global coverage extends to every country, continent, and even remote regions on land and sea. CISI specializes in offering travel, technical, and medical assistance, ensuring a supportive environment for participants throughout their journeys.

In times of crisis, CISI’s dedicated team collaborates with travelers to coordinate care even before their departure, demonstrating CISI’s commitment to their clients’ well-being. CISI’s services directly benefit over 200,000 educational travel and cultural exchange participants annually, making them a trusted health, safety, and risk partner for international programs.

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Core Education, a public benefit corporation, is WAICU’s exclusive partner for business model transformation and a long-term, mission-critical operating partner of colleges and universities. The Core-WAICU agreement allows WAICU-member institutions to enhance their business models through a unique operating partnership designed to leverage economies of scale to improve revenue, technology, and operating effectiveness. Core has established a market-leading platform of transformative business model solutions, including revenue growth and diversification, digital campus transformation, managed technology services, workflow optimization, institutional research, financial planning and modeling, and capital strategies.

Core believes transformation isn’t a series of fragmented projects. Rather, transformation takes place within a comprehensive institutional operating architecture. The modern institution comprises a set of interconnected “engines” that convert mission into motion, vision into velocity, and capacity into sustained performance. Core helps schools identify where to start and how to connect transformation efforts within each engine to the greater architecture.  Start anywhere and evolve.

The Engines of the Institutional Operating Architecture

1. Growth & Transformation (Strategic Expansion)
2. Strategic Cost (Capital Efficiency)
3. Brand (Identity and Trust)
4. Academic Portfolio (Learning and Market Alignment)
5. Leadership (Governance and Talent Architecture)
6. Real Estate (Asset and Capital Strategy)
7. ERP (Digital Backbone)
8. Analytics (Institutional Intelligence)
9. AI (Adaptive and Self-Learning Operations)
10. MAP (Structural Partnerships)

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.

Ballast is a team of professionals with real-world experience at colleges and universities providing Title IX training, investigations, adjudications, interim role-filling and related services to WAICU members. Ballast partners with educational institutions by providing Title IX solutions in a collaborative, customizable, and practical manner. Ballast recognizes that each school is unique, and tailors its services to fit specific campus needs while honoring institutional knowledge and values.

Specializing in Title IX training, Catharsis Productions delivers truly engaging and interactive interpersonal violence prevention content that responds to each learner’s input in a conversational way, making each learner’s online experience unique. Catharsis programs are overwhelmingly preferred by students, faculty, and staff when asked to compare them to others. Catharsis trainings meet the VAWA/Clery/Title IX education requirements by addressing consent, bystander intervention, healthy relationships, sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. Catharsis provides easily accessible personalized client service and offers all the technical capabilities of much larger companies. 

Grand River solutions provides a wide range of products and services to further an equitable culture of trust, respect, and belonging. They are a community of experts from education, law, technology, and business brought together by the shared belief that all students and employees, from every level and size institution, deserve equal access to their learning and working environments, free from harassment and discrimination.

Grand River Solutions uniquely supports each community in developing systematic change that not only meets compliance requirements but also creates a sustainable framework for mutual respect. Their in-the-field practitioners specialize across the spectrum from building systems and capabilities to comprehensive response and resolution services that effectively address your gender, equity, and Clery Act goals.

WAICU partners with Husch Blackwell to provide compliance auditing for members at three levels of participation, as well as discounted rates for other legal services.

For more than a century, Husch Blackwell has been committed to the advancement of knowledge. Their Education law team has built a reputation as a leader in representing public and private institutions at all levels of learning, from preschool through graduate and professional education.

Husch Blackwell advises clients on civil rights issues, technology, employment, land use transactions, student affairs, and myriad other issues. Based on their thorough understanding of each institution’s unique culture and operations, they recommend actions that advance each client’s goals. Husch Blackwell also serve as primary outside counsel and first point of legal contact to many educational institutions.

Husch Blackwell also represents more than 250 higher education institutions, providing compliance, operations, and litigation legal services. Their team includes former in-house counsel at educational institutions, major corporations, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. They regularly advise colleges and universities on student affairs, collegiate athletics and NCAA compliance, Title IX, Title IV, labor and employment matters, and corporate transactions.

Strengthen your safety, well-being, and inclusion initiatives with high-impact training and higher education software solutions for students, faculty, and staff. Over 2000 colleges and universities trust Vector Solutions to empower faculty, staff, and students with relevant content and valuable strategies embedded in courses specifically designed for higher education. Spend less time on tedious administrative tasks thanks to intuitive features, such as analytics and reporting, customizations, and more!

The D. Stafford & Associates (DSA) contract provides comprehensive Title IX services for educational institutions nationwide. They offer a range of Title IX consulting services, such as policy reviews, investigations, training, and toolkits. D. Stafford & Associates helps institutions build a culture of care and empower a safe and discrimination-free learning environment for all. Services include:

• Title IX toolkits and custom training services for client institutions (in-person and virtual)
• Title IX Compliance audits, policy reviews and development and consulting services
• Independent Title IX and Civil Rights Investigation services
• National coverage for all Title IX Services
• National Title IX Classes available for Coordinators and Investigators