NEWARK, NJ, July 22, 2024 – Edge is pleased to announce that the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has joined the EdgeMarket cooperative as an Affiliate Partner. Through this partnership, AAC&U and its members can take advantage of thousands of services and solutions through EdgeMarket’s streamlined procurement process. Edge and AAC&U will mutually explore new ways to add value to the constituencies they serve.
AAC&U is a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the vitality and democratic purposes of undergraduate liberal education. Serving administrators, faculty, staff, and students at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across the country and around the world, AAC&U serves as a catalyst and facilitator for innovations that improve teaching and learning and support student success. AAC&U offers special discounts to its members on select products and services from a range of higher education providers, and now as an EdgeMarket Affiliate Partner, that catalog has greatly expanded.
Designed to reduce the time, cost, and hassle of purchasing products and services, the EdgeMarket portal provides easy access to a variety of procured point solutions and services, including one of the most powerful procured IT and Services catalogs in the nation.
“This is much more than a transactional relationship; this is a partnership where we will seek ways to combine our strengths to create new opportunities for the higher education community. We are excited to learn more about what is important to AAC&U and its members and how Edge and EdgeMarket can add to AAC&U’s legacy of deep and positive impact.”
— Dan Miller
Associate Vice President, Edge Market and Solution Strategy
Edge
“The ethos of Edge aligns well with AAC&U’s vision of improving educational quality and equity, and EdgeMarket now serves as pathway to the essential technologies and services that support AAC&U’s members’ pursuit of that vision,” said Dan Miller, Associate Vice President, EdgeMarket and Solution Strategy. “This is much more than a transactional relationship; this is a partnership where we will seek ways to combine our strengths to create new opportunities for the higher education community. We are excited to learn more about what is important to AAC&U and its members and how Edge and EdgeMarket can add to AAC&U’s legacy of deep and positive impact.”
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About the American Association of Colleges and Universities: AAC&U is a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the democratic purposes of higher education by promoting equity, innovation, and excellence in liberal education. Through its programs and events, publications and research, public advocacy, and campus-based projects, AAC&U serves as a catalyst and facilitator for innovations that improve educational quality and equity and that support the success of all students. In addition to accredited public and private, two-year and four-year colleges and universities, and state higher education systems and agencies throughout the United States, AAC&U’s membership includes degree-granting higher education institutions around the world as well as other organizations and individuals. To learn more, visit www.aacu.org.
About Edge: Edge serves as a member-owned, nonprofit provider of high performance optical fiber networking and internetworking, Internet2, and a vast array of best-in-class technology solutions for cybersecurity, educational technologies, cloud computing, and professional managed services. Edge provides these solutions to colleges and universities, K-12 school districts, government entities, hospital networks and nonprofit business entities as part of a membership-based consortium. Edge’s membership spans the northeast, along with a growing list of EdgeMarket participants nationwide. Edge’s common good mission ensures success by empowering members for digital transformation with affordable, reliable and thought-leading purpose-built, advanced connectivity, technologies and services.
