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Claremont McKenna College is a highly selective, independent, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college Its mission, within the mutually supportive framework of The Claremont Colleges, is to educate its students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions, and to support faculty and student scholarship that contribute to intellectual vitality and the understanding of public policy issues.

Committed to higher education in the tradition of the liberal arts, serving a diverse community of learners in undergraduate and graduate programs, while maintaining its historical commitment to women in its campus program.  By participating in this community, students deveop their abilities to think critically, to communicate responsibly, to engage in lifelong learning and leadership, and to effect positive change in a global society.

The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Charlottesville, VA, is deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people through its extensive legal and educational programs. The Institute provides its legal services at no charge to those whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated.

The Austin Peay State University Foundation supports the mission of Austin Peay University, which is a comprehensive university committed to raising the educational attainment of the citizenry, developing programs and services that address regional needs, and providing collaborative opportunities that connect university expertise with private and public resources.  These endeavors contribute to the intellectual, economic, social, physical, and cultural development of the region.

The educational mission of St. John’s College is to foster searching consideration of the most important human questions through reading and discussion of great books — works of philosophy, literature, science, mathematics, and music. Through the study of these works, the College seeks to free human beings from prejudice and unexamined opinion, and to help students make thoughtful choices in public and private life.

On Point for College helps low-income and first-generation students access, enroll in, and persist through postsecondary education. The organization provides hands‑on college-access services (application and financial aid assistance), ongoing college success advising and mentoring, and career-readiness supports across Central New York so students can complete college and enter the workforce.

Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Gallaudet maintains a proud tradition of research and scholarly activity and prepares its graduates for career opportunities in a highly competitive, technological, and rapidly changing world.

To offer undergraduate and graduate education for a broad range of professions, while providing a strong foundation of liberal learning, thereby giving a highly diverse population of students the opportunity to lift their lives and prospects. Our objective is to create thinking professionals who are highly sought after as innovators and successful leaders, and who will positively impact twenty-first century society.

NewU is the first new private nonprofit undergraduate university to call Washington, DC home in over 100 years. It is also the first new in-person college to launch in the US in the last 15 years. Our Vision is that by the year 2030 other leading universities will adopt our business and academic model to transform Higher Education for the benefit of students, parents, and society.

The purpose of the Association is to provide services to all alumni of the University of Virginia (the University), thereby assisting the University and its students, faculty, and administration in attaining the University's highest priority of achieving eminence as a center of higher learning. This assistance shall also be directed to the attainment of Thomas Jefferson's desire that the University educate students who will become leaders in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation.

As the premier urban, public research university in Virginia, VCU’s mission is to advance knowledge and student success through its commitments to: an engaged, learner-centered environmentthat fosters inquiry, discovery and innovation in a global setting researchthat expands the boundaries of new knowledge and creative expression and promotes translational applications to improve human health interdisciplinary collaborationsthat bring new perspectives to complex problems and mobilize creative energies that advance innovation and solve global challenges health carethat strives to preserve and restore health for all people, to seek the cause and cure of diseases through groundbreaking research, and to educate those who serve humanity diversitythat provides a climate of inclusion, a dedication to addressing disparities wherever they exist, and an opportunity to explore and create in an environment of trust sustainable, university-community partnershipsthat enhance the educational, economic and cultural vitality of the communities VCU serves in Virginia and around the world

With an overarching mission of “advancing health worldwide,” UC San Francisco is devoted at every level to serving the public. At UC San Francisco, we are driven by the idea that when the best research, the best teaching and the best patient care converge, we can deliver breakthroughs that help heal the world. From free children’s health screenings to providing care for the low-income, homeless and under-insured, from innovative partnerships attacking the roots of poor health care to cutting-edge biotechnology that will cure some of the most pernicious diseases, UCSF brings significant resources to an ambitious public mission — and not only does so every day, but has done so for nearly 150 years.