Partners & Impact

We've partnered and worked with leading organizations to transform approaches to connect learning and work, including:

• American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U): Curriculum to Careers Innovation Institute

• American Council on Education (ACE): Workplace learning assessment, Shell USA; ACE credit recommendation review

• Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL): LearningCounts Portfolio Assessment program

• EdStrat | Educational Strategy and Design Group: Reduced credit bachelor’s degrees research project

• Institute for Effectiveness in Higher Education: Impact Partner; Author

• NC-SARA: Engagement, education, and communications consultation

• Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU): Fellows Program initial design; workshop faculty

• Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission: Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Taskforce; CPL institutional workshops and policy development

• QA Commons: Strategy and support

• The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Programs: Academic and internship quality and program assessment

• WICHE: Advisory Group on State Approaches to Short-term Secondary Credentials (Report)

Our college and university partners repeatedly call on us to lead, guide, and support academic, workforce, and student success initiatives, including the following institutions:

• Clackamas Community College, Oregon

• Dominican University of California, California

• Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts

• McDaniel College, Maryland

• Menlo College, California

• Mission College, California

• Newstate University (Advisory Board)

• Northern Marianas College, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

• Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon

• Portland Community Colleges, Oregon

• Prison University Project / Mt. Tamalpais College, California

• School for New Learning, DePaul University, Illinois

• Simmons University, Massachusetts

• Tangaza University College (with School for New Learning, DePaul University), Nairobi, Kenya

• University of Oklahoma

• Valdosta State University, Georgia

We regularly contribute expertise to initiatives transforming how education aligns with career opportunity and economic mobility:

• Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES)—Distance Education Committee

• Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA)—Board of Directors

• American Council on Education (ACE) Non-Degree Programs—Carnegie Classifications

• American Council on Education (ACE)—Stackable Credentials Framework Task Group, resulting in the report Quality Dimensions for Connected Credentials

• Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS)—Selection Committee—Award for the Improvement of General Education

• C-BEN Advisor in the Center for Skills Partnership for Skills Validation initiative

• Competency-Based Education Research Journal Editorial Committee

• Connecting Credentials—National task group on quality credentialing, resulting in the report Building Trust in Credentials

• Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)—Selection Committee—Student Learning Outcomes Institutional Award

• Credential Engine—Various user and task groups

• Institute for Higher Education Effectiveness—Accreditation Liaison Collaborative Advisory & Accreditation Fellow

• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

• NACE Skills-based Learning Initiatives

• NASASPS - Distance Education Committee

• UPCEA Council for Credential Innovation

• WICHE / Pew Charitable Trusts—Report: State Approaches to Short-Term Postsecondary Credentials