ECE® Press Page
Our primary business is preparing foreign education credential evaluation reports. A credential evaluation compares academic and professional degrees earned in one country to academic and professional degrees earned in another. Colleges, universities, employers, licensing boards, and governments use these academic assessments to evaluate foreign education as part of the admission, hiring, or licensure process.
We also provide support and training to educational institutions and other businesses that perform their own credential evaluation.
Our Mission
To promote the betterment of individuals’ lives and society by ensuring that educational qualifications are fairly and accurately recognized across borders.
Press Releases
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October 2025 - ECE Recruits Regulatory Global Affairs Leader Erica Fuller
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January 2025 - ECE Welcomes Gisèle Yasmeen to Board of Directors
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November 2024 - ECE Collaborates with MyDocs to Enhance Credential Evaluation
November 2024 - ECE Appoints Stacy Riley as President -
February 2024 - ECE Appoints Daniel Benischek as COO
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August 2022 - ECE Announces Four New Board Members
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July 2022 - Announcing the United States National Qualifications Framework Project
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January 2022 - ECE Appoints Two New Board Members
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October 2021 - ECE Becomes Patron of the Groningen Declaration Network
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July 2021 - ECE Becomes Member of the Slate Preferred Partner Program
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June 2021 - ECE Releases Education System Charts and Keys
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June 2021 - ECE Offers Transnational Discount
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March 2021 - ECE Launches Chinese Website
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March 2021 - ECE Announces Four New Board Members
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December 2018 - ECE® Aid campaign wraps up third year
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August 2018 - ECE develops customized solution for health care credentialing
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April 2018 - BBB Serving Wisconsin Names 2018 Business Ethics Award Recipients
Awards
2018 BBB Torch Awards for Ethics in the Nonprofit Sector Category
ECE in the News
BizTimes Milwaukee, July 15, 2021 - MMAC 2021 Focus on the Future Awards – ECE receives Honorable Mention in Growth
Milwaukee Business Journal, March 10, 2021 - Milwaukee nonprofit helping students apply overseas education in the U.S. rebounds as travel returns
Fast Facts
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Founded in 1980 as a nonprofit organization
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President: Stacy Riley
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Total number of employees: 100+
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More than 850,000+ evaluations completed since founded
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Reference library with over 35,000 publications
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ECE® e-Learning online training in credential evaluation launched February 2010
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ECE® Connection website supporting professional colleagues with advice and resources launched May 2011
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ECE® Connection Advantage additional paid resources available to subscribers launched March 2014
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ECE® Aid charity supporting refugees and others in need launched August 2016
ECE® Experts
Researching or writing about international education or related topics? Talk to an expert at ECE in the following areas:
- International education, including systems of education, credit transfer and grading
- Fraud in educational documents, including types of fraud, detecting fake documents, and verification methods
- Digital documents including the transmission of educational records and the growing use of verification databases around the world
- Immigration
Institutional Memberships
- AACRAO - American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
- AIEA - Association of International Education Administrators
- AIRC - American International Recruitment Council
- ARUCC - Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada
- CIS - Coincil of International Schools
- Groningen Declaration Signatory
- IIE - Institute of International Education
- NACES - National Association of Credential Evaluation Services
- NAFSA (Global Partner) - Association of International Educators
- NAGAP - The Association for Graduate Enrollment Management
- SACRAO - Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
- TAICEP - The Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals
Staff are professionally active as members in:
- AACRAO - American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
- AIRC - American International Recruitment Council
- EAIE - European Association for International Education
- Groningen Declaration Signatory
- NAFSA - Association of International Educators
- NAGAP - The Association for Graduate Enrollment Management
- TAICEP - The Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals
Contact
For more information or to connect with an expert in educational credential evaluation, contact:
Leigh Lane Peine
Senior Director of Marketing and Client Solutions
lpeine@ece.org