On Nov. 1, 2024, HighEdWeb legally changed its name to Digital Collegium. Our mission remains to educate digital professionals who work at higher education institutions. We provide educational materials and opportunities that develop knowledge, skills and abilities. As a result, we advance higher education.
Our approach
With a focus on the digital issues facing colleges and universities, we help your school achieve its goals with:
Professional development
We provide opportunities to learn and grow through in-person conferences, online summits and our Professional Development Library.
Community
We offer various ways to connect with others through our Slack workspace, community group discussions and networking events.
Access for all
Regardless of where you work in higher education — IT, marketing, admissions, advancement or academics — we welcome you and offer resources and opportunities that benefit your institutions.
Our values
Our core values provide the foundation for how Digital Collegium operates.
Trustworthy
We are ethical in our decision-making. We strive for transparency in our actions.
Open
We embrace open access to knowledge and resources. We value and respect the contributions and feedback of our members. We seek diversity and promote inclusion.
Collaborative
We encourage collaboration over competitiveness. We foster a culture of service within the organization.
Membership
Digital Collegium membership connects a community of professionals to share knowledge, resources and experiences. We welcome everyone involved in the digital efforts at a college or university. Membership options include individual and institutional pricing. There is also a free option for faculty and staff. Membership numbers as of Dec. 31, 2024:
4,366
Total members
105
Institutional members
College and university members
Digital Collegium has institutional members from the United States, its territories and Canada. Faculty, staff and students of these institutions receive paid member benefits at no cost. This is a list of our member institutions during 2024 by state:
The value of membership
10/10 would recommend!
Digital Collegium has been a game changer, providing opportunities to connect, to volunteer with and learn from other digital professionals.
Digital Collegium is one of the most important pillars of my professional life.
Between the knowledge from the conferences, people I have met and experiences from volunteering, it has helped shape who I am today.
Events
Digital Collegium continues to offer high-quality events annually, providing professional development and networking opportunities. The events include an annual conference, one-day summits, watch parties and community group discussions.
41
events hosted in 2024
2,969
total number of
attendees
From the evaluations
Professional Development Library
Paid members of Digital Collegium have on-demand access to professional development resources. This includes recordings of conference sessions.
121
Sessions added in 2024
Volunteering
Digital Collegium operates on volunteer power. We value and appreciate our volunteers, who share their expertise and knowledge as presenters, committee members, session moderators and more.
309
total volunteers
4,107
hours volunteered
From our volunteers
DigiCol volunteers are passionate about what they do.
And it shows in how they carry out the mission in a thoughtful, kind and inclusive way. It makes me want to continue to be part of this!
I’ll definitely look back on this as a really meaningful part of my career.
Volunteering for DigiCol has helped me grow my skills and connect with inspiring people from across the country.
New initiatives
Digital Collegium continually seeks to grow and improve the resources and opportunities we offer. In 2024, the board approved a strategic plan to guide the association through 2026.
In 2024, the association achieved the following milestones with its strategic priorities:
Grow and support the higher ed digital community
Launched a refreshed brand by establishing the Digital Collegium brand identity, positioning, messaging and guidelines.
Formalized diversity recruitment processes as part of the call for proposals
Advance higher education
Held two regional conferences in alignment with the Educational Events Model.
Increase organizational resiliency
Developed and launched a Corporate Partner Program providing for multi-levels of partnership and secured nine corporate partners.
Conducted a risk assessment to identify the organization’s top three risks and developed a plan to address the highest priority risk in 2025.
Leadership
As we move the association from the HighEdWeb we all knew, it’s important to remember what hasn’t changed — we are a community of sharers, of selfless volunteers, all working to move higher education forward.
We are stronger for all of our members and excited as we move further into this next chapter.
Board of directors
Aaron Knight, president
(2018-25)
SUNY ESF
Elected president in 2022
Robert Heyser, treasurer
(2021-27)
Tarrant County College
Elected treasurer in 2022
Josh Charles, vice president
(2022-25)
Rutgers Business School
Elected vice president in 2023
Janice Cheng, secretary
(2023-26)
eCornell
Elected secretary in 2023
Chris D’Orso
(2021-24)
Rochester Institute of Technology
Elected parliamentarian in 2022
Eric Sembrat
(2023-26)
Georgia Tech
Elected parliamentarian in 2024
Tisha Arnold
(2024-27)
Grambling State University
Beth Miller
(2023-26)
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Mark Nakamura
(2024-27)
Stanford University
Michael O’Neill
(2024-25)
University of Iowa
Brian Piper
(2021-27)
University of Rochester
Christian Santillo
(2021-24)
College of the Holy Cross; EAB
Brenden Sparks
(2022-26)
San Jose State University
Lindsey Sneed
(2022-25)
University of Mississippi; Pearson Education
Jackie Vetrano
(2019-24)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sara Clark
Executive director for Digital Collegium
Financials
Digital Collegium has a strong financial foundation and is in a good position to continue meeting the learning needs of our community.
Sponsors
Digital Collegium truly appreciates the support of our sponsors and partners. Their support allows us to continue offering resources and events that are affordable for our members. These organizations provided support for our 2024 events and activities.
Corporate partners
- Beacon Technologies
- Concept3D
- Four Kitchens
- GMB (formerly Up & Up)
- Hannon Hill
- iFactory
- Mighty Citizen
- Terminalfour
- Verndale
Individual event sponsors
- Campus Sonar
- Carnegie
- CDP Communications
- CivicPlus
- Clean Catalog
- Cludo
- Concept3D (formerly Localist)
- Electric Citizen
- Equalize Digital
- Evolving Web
- FFW Agency (now Jakala)
- Five Jars
- Gas Mark 8
- Genius Monkey
- Hannon Hill
- idfive
- ivy.ai
- Kalamuna
- Kanopi Studios
- Lullabot
- Pantheon
- Pathify
- Pixo Tech
- Promet Source
- Prospectus Plus
- Push10
- Sanmita
- Search Discovery (now Further)
- SearchStax
- Silktide
- Siteimprove
- Sitio.ai
- Squiz
- Storyblok
- TransACT Communications
- Terminalfour
- Trumba
- Umbrella Digital
- UNC Keenan-Flager
- Unincorporated
- Verndale
- White Whale
- Writer Girl