CIAC LIMITED

Name

CIAC LIMITED

Legal name

The California Intersegmental Articulation Council

Website

https://ciac.csusb.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CIAC is a statewide professional forum hosted by California State University, San Bernardino that coordinates course articulation and college transfer issues among community colleges, CSU campuses, and UC institutions in California.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Articulation Coordination Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Articulation & Credit Transfer Partnerships (EDAIABAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Comprehensive Community Colleges (Transfer + Workforce) (EDAHADAE)

Keywords

• Articulation officer services
• College transfer coordination
• Intersegmental education forum
• Professional development mentoring
• Course articulation resources

Headquarters

HQ city

San Bernardino

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

CIAC serves as a statewide forum for Articulation Officers to meet, discuss, and resolve college transfer and articulation issues across California's three postsecondary education segments (community colleges, CSU, and UC). It delivers advocacy, professional development, mentoring, and liaison services between segmental offices, faculty senates, and member institutions, supported by governance documents (bylaws), an Articulation Handbook, an annual conference, and resource directories for course outlines, online catalogs, and campus articulation sites.

Product overview

CIAC (California Intersegmental Articulation Council) is a professional association and statewide forum for Articulation Officers in California, not a product-based technology company. It does not offer commercial products or services in the traditional sense. The organization provides resources including CIAC Bylaws, NCIAC Bylaws, SCIAC Bylaws, an Articulation Handbook, Mentors, Tools, Campus Articulation Sites, Articulation Links, Course Outlines, and Online Catalogs. It also organizes annual conferences and maintains regional chapters (Northern Region and Southern Region).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Conferences

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers): National professional association serving registrars, admissions officers, and enrollment managers across all U.S. higher education. Broader in geographic scope than CIAC and serves a wider professional audience, but overlaps on articulation and transfer policy work.

Emerging players

• ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer): California's official statewide articulation and transfer information system, operated by the CSU. Adjacent to CIAC in that both serve California intersegmental articulation, but ASSIST is a digital platform/database rather than a professional membership forum.

Others

• California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office: State-level governing body for California's 115 community colleges. Indirectly comparable to CIAC because CIAC's work intersects with CCC transfer and articulation policy, but CCCCO is a regulatory/governance body, not a membership forum.

Regional players

• Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges - Transfer Council: Statewide transfer coordination body within Washington focused on articulation between community/technical colleges and four-year institutions. Comparable in intersegmental transfer-coordination mission to CIAC, but operates in Washington state.
• Oregon Transfer Compass (Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission): Statewide transfer initiative coordinating credit transfer and articulation across Oregon's public higher education segments. Comparable to CIAC in purpose and statewide focus, but Oregon-specific.

Direct peers

• Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): Statewide intersegmental articulation body coordinating transfer and credit transfer across Illinois public higher education segments. Directly comparable to CIAC in mission, scope (statewide transfer coordination), and constituency (articulation officers and member institutions).
• TACRAO (Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers): Texas statewide professional association for collegiate registrars and admissions officers, with parallel transfer/articulation coordination role. Comparable in function to CIAC as a statewide professional forum.
• MACRAO (Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers): Michigan statewide professional association for registrars and admissions officers handling transfer and articulation issues. Comparable to CIAC as a state-level membership forum serving transfer-related professional staff.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/csusbnews
• YouTubeyoutube.com/csusb
• Facebookfacebook.com/CSUSB
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ciac-limited
• Instagraminstagram.com/csusb
• TikToktiktok.com/@csusbofficial?lang=en

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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