Collaborations

AICUO Partner: Overture Technologies; Prager, Sealy & Co.

The Ohio Private Loan Marketplace, sponsored by AICUO and developed by Overture Technologies of Bethesda, Md., is an online loan comparison and shopping service available to more than 140,000 students attending 51 Ohio nonprofit institutions of higher education. The Marketplace is the only online service that presents students with upfront, accurate comparisons of rates and terms — not “as low as” advertisements — so they can effectively evaluate available private loan funding options, if they have exhausted federal and institutional grants and loans. As part of Overture’s Private Loan Marketplace network of Web sites, operating in Ohio and 10 other states, the Ohio marketplace also helps students discover untapped sources of loans; emphasizes financial literacy and smart borrowing habits; preserves borrower credit scores and privacy; and provides colleges and universities with a straightforward path to HEOA Section 601 compliance. The Marketplace connects borrowers to a wide range of lenders, including national banks and nonprofit credit unions. Students interested in the Ohio Private Loan Marketplace should contact their campus financial aid offices.

For more information:

• Lloyd Leanse, Prager, Sealy & Co.: lloyd@prager.com or (415) 403-1914
• Peter Carroll, Overture Technologies: pcarroll@overturecorp.com or (301) 492-2142
• Bob Burke, AICUO: rburke@aicuo.edu or (614) 228-2196

Private Loan Disclosures

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AICUO Partner: Sightlines, LLC

Sightlines is a leader in helping colleges and universities better manage their facilities operation and capital investments. Sightlines provides tools for strategic planning, analyzing and benchmarking that generate an independent, reliable comparison of campus performance in these areas against peer institutions.

Using its unique, proprietary Return on Physical Assets (ROPA^SM) process, Sightlines visits each campus annually to collect more than 200 indicators of facilities and financial data and then identifies trends and provides useful analysis and benchmarks. With Sightlines, institutions receive the context and validation they need to make sound, clear, informed and financially credible decisions about campus facilities. As a result, campuses can optimize capital investments, address backlog of deferred maintenance projects, develop a strategy to steward physical assets, improve the effectiveness of facility operations, reduce energy consumption and better serve students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

AICUO's agreement with Sightlines provides a discount of up to 15% off the cost of the first-year historical analysis. In addition, by signing up through AICUO, Sightlines will be providing your institution with annual sector analysis of how well AICUO members are addressing physical asset needs compared to independent and public institutions across the country. For a Web demo, click here.

For more information please contact one of the following people:

• Bob Burke, Director of Research for AICUO at rburke@aicuo.edu
• Jim Kadamus, Sightlines at 203-682-4950 or
  by email at jkadamus@sightlines.com
• Thomas Huberty, Sightlines at thuberty@sightlines.com

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AICUO Partner: inter-University Council of Ohio

Association members can save substantially on office supplies, dormitory beds, computers and software, group insurance, and more by using purchasing contracts negotiated by the Inter-University Council of Ohio Purchasing Group, of which AICUO is a member.

For more information, visit the collaborations web site.