New Delivery Models Open Doors to Modernization
One of the most exciting shifts we’re seeing in the higher education administrative technology industry is the service implementation partners’ role in reshaping access and opening modernization opportunities to new market segments. Partnering closely with software providers and offering long-term engagement models, firms are creating new deployment and support systems that promise to lower costs […]
Identity in the AI Age: SailPoint Navigate 2025 Conference Update
At Navigate 2025 in beautiful Austin, Texas, SailPoint took the opportunity to launch several meaningful products, focusing on the emerging threats in a rapidly evolving security ecosystem. The products are created through the lens that identity has become the new control plane for enterprise security. That vision makes sense. However, it also reveals some harsh […]
Anthology’s Strategic Shift: A Retreat from the All-in-One Bet
Anthology’s recent announcement of a “strategic transformation” signals a significant course correction. The company plans to divest its student, finance, and HCM products, with Ellucian named as the stalking horse bidder and Encoura also taking on part of the portfolio. At the same time, Anthology will restructure itself around its Teaching and Learning portfolio and […]
Is There a Better Way? How Higher Ed Can Finally Adapt
For too long, higher education has wrestled with inefficiency, silos, and structures that resist change. Now, in 2025, the cracks are impossible to ignore. Yet amid the dysfunction lies a chance to do things differently. Dynamic Work Design offers institutions a pathway to cut through complexity, connect people and processes, and build the resilience needed […]
Workday Rising 2025: Repositioning Workday
This year at Workday Rising, the energy was impossible to miss. With more than 30,000 attendees from 76 countries, including over 1,300 higher education participants, the event felt vibrant—and a little overwhelming. Workday made bold announcements with three acquisitions in recent months, a major product announcement with Workday Data Cloud, and a pathway to monetize […]
Inclusivity and Scalability: Parallel Priorities in Higher Education
Higher education stands at a crossroads, shaped by shifting demographics, the growing demand for accessible learning, and the persistent need for institutions to serve an increasing number of students more effectively. Against this shifting backdrop, the concepts of “inclusivity” and “scalability” stand prominently. Though frequently discussed together and occasionally entwined in strategic planning, these ideas […]
Build for Stability, Invest in What Makes You Stand Out
In the rush to modernize and innovate, many institutions fall into one of two traps: they either obsess over perfecting their core systems or they leap into strategic initiatives without a strong data foundation. Because Systems of Record are such a significant investment, there’s a natural desire to extract every ounce of value, often by […]
AI in Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy at Scale…And the Stakes if We Get it Wrong
For decades, we’ve known what “good teaching” looks like: timely formative feedback, targeted reteaching, scaffolded guided practice, and classrooms designed around Universal Design for Learning (UDL)—with multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression. We’ve also known why these practices are hard to sustain: they require time, diagnostic acuity, and continuous adaptation that few faculty can […]
Choosing the Right Partner for Change
Reflecting on our Future Campus™ Summit, an unmistakable theme was clear: in an era of constant disruption and distraction, the urgency for colleges and universities to catalyze change at pace and scale is accelerating. Their ability, or lack thereof, to do so will be a decisive factor in how efficiently they can operate in the […]
Curiosity > Coding: What Really Matters for Careers in the AI Era
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), AI is projected to displace 9 million jobs by 2025 but also create 11 million new ones. That net gain is the story many headlines miss. And it’s the key to how we should prepare our children (and ourselves) for the future. Recently, I’ve been hearing the same […]
