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- EIN 39-1039417
- (608) 256-7761
- 112 W Washington Ave Ste 700 Madison WI 53703-0000 USA
- www.waicu.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Higher Education
Mission: Promote and facilitate services to wisconsin's private nonprofit colleges and universities.
Programs: Collaborative services - the waicu collaboration project is a comprehensive initiative to perform administrative support functions of wisconsin's twenty-four private nonprofit colleges and universities on a collaborative basis. The objectives are to save money, to improve the quality of services to students, faculty, and staff, and to serve as a national model for controlling college costs.
student access - waicu has organized joint admission programs since 1978, currently logging more than 300,000 contacts with potential students and their parents and counselors each year. Waicu's admission programs are specifically designed to reinforce the student recruitment efforts of members. Waicu's role is to highlight the affordability and opportunities quality of wisconsin's private nonprofit colleges and to create opportunities for students and counselors to consider private nonprofit colleges.
scholarships - the organization awards on an annual basis approximately $900,000 to 164 private college students. In addition they manage six endowed scholarship programs valued at approximately $16. 3 million. These scholarships allow many students to continue their college education.