EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS INC
Unlocking the Promise of International Education
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Since 1980, Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) has been ensuring that foreign-educated people are respected and recognized for their educational achievements. ECE reviews academic achievements by individuals from other countries and converts them to the U.S. or Canadian system for purposes of studying or working in the United States or studying in Canada.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
ECE® Aid
A charitable initiative developed to provide fee waivers for educational credential reports for vulnerable populations.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The mission of ECE is to promote the betterment of individuals' lives and society by ensuring that educational qualifications are fairly and accurately recognized across borders.
ECE welcomes immigrants and refugees from all countries and remains committed to serving those seeking employment, professional licensure, further education, and other benefits for which educational achievement is a prerequisite.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
What ECE does:
ECE provides foreign-educated people an opportunity to pursue their potential, enhancing their life and society.
• Public Servants: As a non-profit, we passionately serve the global community through credential evaluations, refugee assistance, training, and development.
• Thought Leaders: We have a proven worldwide reputation as leaders in applied comparative education and credential evaluation.
• Inside-Out Practitioners: We encourage and empower our associates to lead fulfilling, balanced, responsible lives.
How ECE does it:
As a champion of doing the right thing, ECE leads the industry with excellence, ethics, and care.
• Caring Counsel: We guide our clients with kindness, empathy, and respect.
• Ethical Standards: We hold ourselves and the industry to high standards in actions and offerings.
• Rigorous Research: Dedicated to doing the job right, we seek truth and knowledge and prioritize quality and accuracy in all that we do.
• Continuous Improvement: We are thoughtful about how we can better serve our customers with products and experiences.
Why ECE does it:
ECE honors and promotes the significance of people, education, and opportunity.
• Advocates of Opportunity: We help those in need fulfill their potential and make a contribution through hard work and dedication.
• Education Ambassadors: We respect educational systems and institutions worldwide and are dedicated to honoring authentic credentials.
• Employee Recognition: We pride ourselves on a flexible, respectful, collaborative workplace where people feel valued.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
ECE offers outstanding customer service with online chat capabilities. Customers and representatives can always speak with a real person, whether it is a customer service representative, evaluator, associate specialist, marketing or sales representative, or manager or director of ECE.
ECE completes academic credential evaluations and assessments within 5-business days, ensuring quick results for those we serve. This is the fastest turnaround time in the field.
As an industry leader, we use our more than 400 years of combined experience and an average of almost 12 years each, an unsurpassed reference library of over 35,000 publications and files, and service to more than 600,000 applicants. Our rigorous evaluator training process requires 10-12 months of training. Likewise, ECE maintains a secure database of over 250,000 digital sample credentials.
ECE is a charter member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) as well as a member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, European Association for International Education (EAIE), and the Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals (TAICEP).
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
For over 40 years, ECE has assisted more the 600,000 applicants, thousands of higher education institutes and professional organizations, and educated thousands of professionals through webinars, conference presentations, and virtual summits on credential evaluation, comparative education, and professional development.
We will continue to provide high-quality services to those we serve. Additionally, ECE will continue to innovate through offering new products to customers, higher education representatives, resettlement agencies, healthcare and employment professionals, and other stakeholders.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS INC
Board of directorsas of 03/22/2023
Elena Anderson
At Ease Solutions, LLC
Adria Baker
Rice University
Rajika Bhandari
Rajika Bhandari Advisors
Keith Kamperschroer
Sikich LLP (retired)
Arthur Coren
University Canada West
Kavita Pandit
Georgia State University
Kimara Ellefson
Kern National Network for Caring & Character in Medicine (KNN)
Joanna Graham
DG Services LLC & JR Running LLC
Kris Olds
University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Frey
Global Head of CLOs and Broadly Syndicated Loans (retired)
Dave Hynek
Business Fitness, Inc.
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.