AIKCU’s Office of Business Services works to bring value to member campuses through collaboration. It strives to help campuses contain costs and leverage the collective size of the Association while developing business partnerships that are beneficial to member campuses and partners. These free up campus resources that can then be devoted to what our campuses do best – providing high quality, affordable and personalized education.

AIKCU works closely with campus business officers to establish collaborative priorities, review products and services, promote campus participation in these programs, seek Association marketplace pricing, and evaluate products and programs. Participation by AIKCU members in these programs is strictly voluntary and endorsement by the Association does not imply individual campus affiliation.

To learn more about AIKCU’s Office of Business Services, please contact Bob Johnston.

Current AIKCU business partners include (click here to view full descriptions of each partnership):

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The Kentucky School Boards Association – property, casualty, and liability insurance
Marathon’s SuperFleet – no-fee fuel savings and campus vehicle fleet management program
Valvoline Instant Oil Change – campus vehicle oil change and maintenance services (part of SuperFleet program); discounts for campus constituents
eCampus.com – “textbooks and stuff”
The Learning House, Inc. – distance learning courses, products, and services
The Student Loan People – low cost student and parent loans
JPMorgan Chase – no-fee campus procurement card program
Office Depot – office products and supplies

Additional initiatives of the Office of Business Services include:

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• Health Insurance – In response to escalating campus health care costs, AIKCU has established the AIKCU Benefit Trust, a pooled, partially self-funded approach to health care for campus employees. AIKCU is well into the development process and plans to make this new option for campus health insurance available to campuses in 2006.
• Library collaboration – AIKCU member libraries share in contract pricing that makes it economically feasible for our campuses to offer top quality information resources to their constituents. In addition to shared contracts with individual vendors, library partnerships also include a shared contract with the Kentucky Virtual Library and a relationship with the Appalachian College Association that allows AIKCU to purchase selected databases under ACA contracts.
• Campus energy audits - AIKCU continues to work with campuses to evaluate utility costs to ensure that campuses are receiving the most cost efficient and advantageous rate offered by the utility. This program has been successful in realizing short and long term savings for those campuses that have participated.
• Information Technology – AIKCU continues to explore collaborative opportunities in Information Technology, including hardware and software vendor agreements.
• Printing and Copying Services – AIKCU has conducted an analysis of campus printing and copying needs and is currently exploring opportunities for campuses to collaborate in these areas.