Fall 2025 Tours
The IECA College Committee and IECA staff are excited to offer two college tours this fall, available to current IECA Professional and Associate members.
Lottery registration for each tour will be open from 9:00 a.m. Eastern on Monday, June 23, to 9:00 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, June 25. The lottery links will be added to this page and posted on the Member Network that Monday morning.
To be eligible for registration, it is imperative that you submit your application for the lottery within that 48-hour window. To maximize the number of members able to participate, you may attend only one of the two fall tours.
New this year: for those entering the lotteries for both tours, during the lottery registration process, you will be asked your preference between the two. If you are selected by lottery for both, you will receive the spot on your preferred tour.
Beer, Cheese, and Pizza Tour (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago)
September 7-12, 2025
New England Tour
September 14-18, 2025
Tour Registration Process
IECA has implemented a lottery system to ensure fairness in the tour participation registration system.
- When tour registration opens, all those who are interested and committed to attending have 48 hours to complete their preliminary registration(s).
- The preliminary registration includes providing credit card information, but cards are not charged at that time.
- A randomizer website selects those to attend from the list of those who have completed the preliminary registration for each tour.
- Those who are selected for a tour immediately have their payments processed to their credit card and receive a confirmation email.
- If two tours are running concurrently, during the lottery registration process, you will be asked your preference between the two. If you are selected by lottery for both, you will receive the spot on your preferred tour.
Those not selected are added to the waitlist in the randomized lottery order.
- Should tour opportunities open up due to cancellations, those on the waitlist are notified, in their randomized order, and given the choice to accept the spot or be removed from the waitlist.
Know Before You Register
Tours are thoughtfully planned by volunteers taking into consideration several factors, including planning a variety of schools to appeal to IECA members from all regions of the country with inclusivity in mind.
We try to include a combination of schools with national, broad regional, and special appeal–including HBCUs, CTCLs, single-sex, and those with a variety of strong programs and admission rates, when possible. Although not all the schools on this tour will work for your students, we hope you are able to appreciate them all and find something of value at each visit. Sometimes schools we would like to visit are unwilling or unable to accommodate us. This might explain their absence from the itinerary.
An info session, tour, and student panel are requested but schools ultimately provide what they can for our visit. If time permits, we will include a bookstore visit, but it is not always possible.
We do our best to plan a tour with schools in proximity to each other but sometimes, in order to capture a variety of colleges, the schedule will include some longer drives. We also plan tours well in advance and sometimes changes occur in school priorities, budgets, and initiatives, necessitating modifications in our itineraries.
Organize a Tour
If your IECA committee would like to organize an in-person campus tour for IECA members, please fill out the form below.