Programs

CARES Health Care Consortium

In 2004, ICUT initiated Collegiate Association Resource of the Southwest, Inc. (CARES), a health care consortium for ICUT member institutions.  CARES is a self-funded, nonprofit organization that offers a competitive risk pool, proactive financial management, and enhanced customer service.  It currently have five(5) medical programs available to assist ICUT member institutions.

E-Committee (where E stands for Efficiency)

This ad hoc committee was created in 2004 to identify ways ICUT member institutions could gain efficiencies in student service operations through shared resources.  The Committee is comprised of 10 institution members (3 from each of the affected disciplines: business office, enrollment management, and financial aid plus 1 from IT).  Representatives from ICUT and Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) play supporting and facilitating roles for the Committee.

The Committee oversees two ongoing projects: Voluntary Peer Review and High School Counselor Training.  The Peer Review provides for a team of professionals from ICUT campuses to visit an institution; review the procedures for admissions, financial aid, and student accounts; and recommend ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs all at a minimal cost to the institution.  The High School Counselor Training consists of ICUT staff making presentations to counselors to correct the myths which perpetuate about the affordability, accessibility, and availability of independent higher education.

Private Student Loan Market Place

The Private Student Loan Marketplace is a portal where students are able to view in a comparative, side-by-side manner the specific loan rates and terms they would see if they applied to these lenders directly. Click here to read the disclaimer.

Texas Environmental Compliance Consortium

The Board of Directors at its 2008 Annual Meeting authorized ICUT staff to pursue the creation of a consortium to address a growing concern to its membership of potential EPA campus inspections.  This consortium was finalized in February 2010 with over 50 Texas higher education institutions participating in this environmental program.

Agreements

• Adobe -- For purchasing of Adobe products for institutions, faculty, staff & students.

• First American -- A leasing and asset management agreement which provides competitive lease rates as an alternative to the expenditure of capital dollars for equipment purchases, particularly for products in areas of rapid technology development like computer labs and communication infrastructure.

• Identity Theft Loss Prevention (IDTLP) -- Helps to build a defensible position with criteria derived from commonalities in privacy, security, usage, and notification law, as well as, Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions involving information breaches since 2005.
  

  IDTLP Programs are compatible with:

  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards
  • The Red Flags Rule
  • Information Legislation

• Microsoft Campus -- For institutional licensing of all campus computers and servers with a bundle of Microsoft products at an educational discount. Student licenses are also available.

• Microsoft Select -- For institutional purchasing of a wide range of Microsoft software at an educational discount. This also allows for personal purchasing of Microsoft software at discounted prices by students, faculty and staff.

• Provista -- A large group purchasing organization (GPO) which offers access to almost 200 supply and equipment contracts including office equipment and supplies for educational areas, furniture for buildings and residence halls, chemicals and paper products for operations, food for dining facilities, and medical supplies and pharmaceuticals for on-campus student clinics.  Provista’s portfolio of national contracts offer low, competitive pricing, customer service and ordering systems to lower both your supply expense and processing costs.

• Rawlinson Procurement Advisors (RPA) -- RPA will conduct a Purchasing Process Evaluation for your campus, evaluating, reporting and making recommendations in the following areas of your purchasing function:
  • Organization
  • Policies, Procedures and Processes
  • Systems Utilized
  • Supplier Selection Methods
  • Quality of Products and Services Purchased
  
  SchoolDude -- For Software as a Service (SaaS) technology applications to enable institutions to better manage both their facility and IT work order processes.

• Unimarket -- Delivers the next generation of eProcurement through an Amazon-like user experience on a secure B2B collaborative network via the Software-As-A-Service (Saas) model. With Web 2.0 technology and seamless integration to suppliers' supply-chains and customers' financials, Unimarket is Procurement 2.0