JourneyEd manages the Adobe licenses for the WAICU members.  We ensure that through the collaborative purchasing power of the members that each member is able to receive the highest discount available from Adobe.

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

Transact Campus + CBORD delivers comprehensive higher education solutions including Integrated Payments (processing, tuition, plans, billing, eMarket), Campus ID (mobile credential, meal plans, door access), and Campus Commerce (cloud POS, mobile ordering, hardware), with direct ERP integration. They also serve healthcare and corporate environments, creating seamless experiences. Transact Campus + CBORD, is the leading provider of integrated campus technology solutions serving over 2,000 higher education institutions. Their cloud-based, mobile-first platform seamlessly connects payments, campus ID, and commerce systems to create a unified digital campus experience. With robust ERP integrations, contactless capabilities, and comprehensive data insights, they empower institutions to streamline operations while delivering the modern, convenient experiences today’s students’ demand.

The Board Portal Program through Diligent and BoardEffect drives efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement among trustees, executives and administrators. The 100 percent web-based interface means no special software or hardware to install, and less paper to waste.

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

See it In Action

DeepSeas provides colleges and universities across the country a full suite of advisory, compliance, and testing services tailored to the unique needs of higher education. In addition, DeepSeas MDR+, combines the data, scale, and automation from the DeepSeas Cyber Defense Platform with world-class analysts, engineers, and incident responders to ensure timely, relevant, and validated threat notifications. DeepSeas MDR+ is the first and only MDR solution that covers the entire converged attack surface, including OT, IT, cloud, and mobile environments.

WAICU partners with The Coalition for College Cost Savings to utilize several of their cost-saving collaborative programs. The DeepSeas program is one of those affiliate programs. This is available to WAICU members due to WAICU’s membership in the Coalition.

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

SecurIT360 is a full-service cybersecurity consulting firm which was founded in 2009. Its founder, David Forrestall (CISSP, CISA), has put together a team of credentialed professionals who are collectively focused on the physics of securing IT. SecurIT360 is proud to be an independent, vendor agnostic, technology company focused on developing programs and systems specifically catered to their clients’ needs.

SecurIT360 empowers their clients with the advice needed to improve and maintain their security posture and meet regulatory compliance standards.

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WAICU partners with The Coalition for College Cost Savings to utilize several of their cost-saving collaborative programs. The DeepSeas program is one of those affiliate programs. This is available to WAICU members due to WAICU’s membership in the Coalition.

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

Constituo provides cloud-based integration for colleges & universities. Their iPaaS modernizes how all of your cloud and legacy systems work together, maximizing integration flexibility, accelerates processes, and untangles local integrations that hamper efficiency. With Constituo, your integration options are limitless. Constituo can integrate any application with any ERP.

With Constituo you can license individual solutions or go the enterprise route and have no limitations on the number of integrations. All Constituo integration solutions include the following standard features and benefits:

• Reduced IT burden
• Free technical support
• Flexible & accurate duplicate detection with remediation form
• Dashboard to manage & monitor integrations
• Real-time or scheduled integration
• Non-programmatic data preparation
• API management
• Audit tools
• Centralized user management
• Production and test revisions

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

The WAICU Microsoft Agreement is an annual licensing program through SoftwareONE specially created to address the unique needs of higher education institutions.

SoftwareONE makes IT investments go further, helping organizations transform operations using technology and optimize their software and cloud subscriptions for the new reality. By assisting clients in migrating and modernizing their workloads and applications – and in parallel, navigating and optimizing the resulting software and cloud changes –  SoftwareOne unlocks the value of technology.

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

B&H has a full line of over 700,000 photo, video, audio, surveillance, and day-to-day technology products available on their easy-to-use portal. Benefit from favored pricing, fast delivery, and unsurpassed customer service, plus:

• Instant quotes and real-time contract pricing through their online purchasing portal
• Technical advice, planning, and solutions from experienced professionals
• Same-day shipping available for select items on orders placed before 4PM

DigiCOPY is a Wisconsin-based digital printer that provides unique print solutions for WAICU members. The WAICU agreement covers a wide array of services, including special pricing on business cards and paper purchases.

Facilities management, including on-site and virtual print solutions. To date, DigiCOPY has replaced six internal print shops at member colleges with a virtual print solution.

Direct mail, from design and setup to production and distribution. DigiCOPY has the tools to handle your entire mailing projects from start to finish. DigiCOPY is a USPS Authorized full service mailing agent. The mailing types include:

• First Class Mail® (Less than 200 pieces & select larger mailings)
• Standard “Bulk” Mail™ (Select mailings more than 200 pieces)
• Variable Data
• List Verification
• Production, Postage & Delivery
• Postage discounts for Educational Institutions

State-of-the-art web-to-print software to facilitate all these solutions via customized online web portals. There are no initial or ongoing fees for setting up the web portals for WAICU members. This WAICU program is designed to be flexible and allows choices for members. For example, DigiCOPY can be used by select, specific departments on campus, or, if members prefer, DigiCOPY can be implemented as a campus wide print services solution. Member references available upon request.

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

Xerox products help you print faster, be more productive, and produce higher quality documents. Their extensive product portfolio includes everything from entry-level desktop copiers and printers to high-volume monochrome and color multifunction devices for institutions of all sizes. Managed Print Services improve workflow, Xerox® DocuShare for Education makes content management easy, and Xerox® ConnectKey® Apps for education help you be more productive, collaborative, and effective.

This program is available to WAICU members through WAICU’s partnership with The Coalition for College Cost Savings.

Corpay provides a streamlined invoice and payment automation platform that brings Accounts Payable (AP) departments into the modern age. Corpay’s platform saves AP departments thousands of hours annually, enhances visibility, increases accuracy, improves efficiency, and earns rebates while reducing paper, fraud risks, and operating costs.

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.

CDW-G is a trusted technology vendor to WAICU and many other higher education institutions and systems nationally with a team dedicated to understanding the unique challenges that these institutions face. The WAICU contract ensures that WAICU members are being discounted across all of our technology categories. With CDW-G, WAICU schools can develop the best total solution while attaining the most value with CDW-G’s full range of products and services, from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions.

CDW-G is technology “agnostic,” focused on finding the right solution for you rather than pushing a particular brand, and their sales and service delivery teams consist of highly skilled technology specialists and advanced service delivery engineers that understand HiED. CDW-G’s offerings are comprehensive, including expert consulting, design, configuration, installation, and lifecycle management services. CDW-G has services dedicated to each stage of your solution rollout and IT journey, with technical support and professional services experts, architects and engineers that give your IT team the time they need to turn IT into a competitive advantage.

The best way to learn about CDW-G’s capabilities is to ask your account manager. The account team focuses on the priorities of Higher Education like: modern learning environments, smart and connected campuses, student engagement and retention, and cybersecurity and data integrity and building a resilient workplace. Please let us know if you have any questions!

WAICU partners with The Coalition for College Cost Savings and the HESS Consortium to utilize several of their cost-saving collaborative programs. The Insight program is one of those affiliate programs. This is available to WAICU members due to WAICU’s membership in the Coalition.

Insight provides computer and network hardware, software and peripherals with an exclusive discount to all HESS and WAICU member institutions. Insight Public Sector works with you to implement specialized higher education solutions that address your ambitious goals, including:

• Modernizing your campus and data center
• Supporting student aspirations
• Achieving agility in the cloud
• Procuring and managing devices
• Delivering collaboration tools

For more information HESS Consortium Business Partners – The HESS Consortium

The WAICU Educational Technology Consortium, or WAICU ETC, was organized in 2005 for the joint selection, purchase (including financing), implementation, maintenance, and operation of a common administrative/academic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. On some measures, WAICU ETC is considered one of the largest, if not the largest, academic technology consortium in the United States. WAICU ETC members benefit from discounted software costs and dramatically reduced pricing on maintenance. WAICU ETC is, in principle and practice, vendor neutral and offers two state-of-the-art solutions.

Benefits of membership

• Professional learning community, community of practice, network, and peer support group
• Administrative advantage with single contract negotiation
• Combined louder voice for vendor attention
• Predictable pricing over time

WAICU ETC Contact
Bill Schultz
Executive Director of WAICU ETC
bill.schultz@waicu.org
(608) 204-5236

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

Website accessibility compliance is essential for promoting inclusivity, meeting legal requirements, enhancing user experience and fulfilling social responsibility obligations. It is an integral part of creating an inclusive and accessible digital environment for everyone. An accessible web site is both a compliance requirement and a demonstration of your institution’s values and commitment to inclusivity.

However, WAICU members have identified several challenges in meeting the technical standards for web content, such as time to review flagged issues, lack of resources to implement changes when identified, and keeping up with third party content.

WAICU partner Core Education offers a spectrum of Web Accessibility Services, exclusively designed for WAICU members, to meet the range of operational needs:

1. Site Accessibility Audit and Recommendations
2. Implementation of Identified Areas of Improvement
3. Subscription-Based Monitoring and Support