Meet Our Amazing Partners
APL nextED partners with industry-leading experts to ensure your team is equipped with the latest innovative higher education resources available. We believe in the power of coming together. Our partners all bring a unique set of skills, perspectives and experiences that makes their contributions to our team vital.
Service Partners
Our partners provide solutions to meet the unique needs of higher education and to ensure your team has the best possible experience.
Magna Publications
Magna Publications connects teachers and leaders with noted education authorities. Meeting our customers where they want to learn, we provide expert-created professional-development content in focused and flexible formats including print, online, and conferences suitable for individuals or entire campuses.
TalentRise
TalentRise is an executive search and talent management consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. An industry player since 2008, TalentRise provides flexible, customized leadership and organizational solutions to mid- to large-market employers.
Amazon Web Services
AWS provides the technology backbone for the entire APL nextED application. Leveraging the capacity and stability AWS provides allows us to work with institutions of all sizes and continue to provide new and improved features and services.
APL nextED is proud to be a member of AWS EdStart and AWS Activate Accelerator programs.
Kelly Education
Kelly Education is the only workforce solutions company serving every level of the education system, from pre-K to higher education and beyond. Kelly partners with public and private colleges and universities to customize outsourcing solutions to select segments of their workforce including—adjunct instructors, IT professionals, clerical, custodial, remote workers, and more.
Investment Partners
Bisk Ventures
Bisk Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating growth for EdTech startups. Their companies are engaged in the transformation of educational engagement, access, and effectiveness in the higher education and corporate learning space.
Strada Education
Strada Education Network supports postsecondary educators and institutions as they adapt to a rapidly changing learning ecosystem, connecting them with career-focused learners, employers, and policymakers so they can collaborate to help students succeed in school and in the workplace.
Elevate Ventures
Elevate Ventures exists to create sustainable cultures and infrastructure across Indiana that support the ongoing development and success of entrepreneurs. Our vision is to be regarded as a critical guide, resource and community catalyst for developing high-performing, high-growth, Indiana-based businesses.
Michelson Runway
Michelson Runway actively builds relationships with institutions, supports socially-minded innovators working to solve problems in postsecondary education, and engages with policymakers to devise high-impact, sustainable, and scalable solutions that will improve academic and social outcomes for millions of college students and adult learners.
APL Supports
We are members of various higher education organizations that support the advancement of higher education.
ACE Women’s Network Indiana
ACE Women’s Network of Indiana is a community, inclusive of all women, that inspires, develops, and supports women leaders to transform higher education.
UPCEA
UPCEA is the only organization in North America focusing on the professional, continuing and online (PCO) education enterprise. For more than 100 years, UPCEA has served most of the leading public and private colleges and universities in North America.