Oracle’s Vision Comes Together: The Company That Now Builds AI from Silicon to Service
There comes a point when a company stops talking about what it wants to become and starts proving what it already is. That was Oracle this week at AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, a company now emerging as a unified force rather than a collection of disconnected ambitions. For years, Oracle’s story has been […]
From Anxiety to Action: Your 90-Day AI Upskilling Roadmap
A significant gap is opening between those who can leverage AI and those who can’t. This guide is a practical roadmap to ensure you’re on the right side of that divide. Why This Matters (And Why It’s Not All Doom) Over the past year, I’ve had countless conversations with colleagues and clients who are excited […]
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 […]
