Best Practices for Overcoming Recruitment Challenges
Higher education recruitment and admissions professionals faced strong headwinds and a forthcoming enrollment cliff long before the pandemic hit, with National Student Clearinghouse data showing that total postsecondary enrollment declined by nearly 2 million students between 2011 and 2020. Though institutions were already using a wide array of technology tools to help in their efforts […]
Anthology Together 2023: Building Out on the Promise of a Single Solution
Approximately 2,000 attendees gathered at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, to learn what Anthology has delivered to its extensive product suite and what’s on tap for the next six months and beyond. Attendees applauded enthusiastically when Chairman and CEO Jim Milton announced that more than 200 new product features have been delivered since […]
Standalone HR and Payroll Systems in Higher Education
Higher education institutions most often choose their HCM and finance platforms from the same vendor—and usually also choose their student system from that same vendor. This trend has been true in higher education for 30 years and continues in buying trends today. Institutions recognize that using a single platform for their key transactional systems provides […]
2023 Oklahoma Higher Ed IT Summit Recap: Where Innovation Comes Sweepin’ Down the Plain
The Council on Information Technology (CoIT) of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education recently hosted the 2023 Oklahoma Higher Ed IT Summit, where more than 20 institutions from across the great Sooner State came together to collaborate on improving their practices and working together to modernize, innovate, and elevate Oklahoma higher education for tomorrow’s […]
Strategies for Overcoming IT Hiring Challenges
As the Director of Enterprise Software Systems at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, Mary Beaver is a paragon of success in building and retaining a high-performing IT team. In fact, the CRM system she and her team of MCCC alumni built won Tambellini Group’s 2023 Innovative Technology Team Award. Listen in as Mary takes […]
Use Your LMS to Move from Lag to Lead Measures in Student Success
Learning management systems or LMS, for short, have become ubiquitous at the higher ed level. Due to COVID-19, even primary and secondary schools that didn’t have an LMS in place are probably using some software to help with course management, even if it’s just Google Classroom. Let’s explore how you can get the most from […]
What Salesforce Education Cloud Means for Higher Education
Salesforce has launched its new Education Cloud industry platform, providing higher education with an integrated student-centric enterprise-wide CRM solution suite. The company is aligning its Education Cloud product strategy with the same approach that has brought it success across 11 other industries by leveraging the core Salesforce CRM platform and horizontal applications combined with innovations […]
Ellucian Live 2023: Ellucian Calls on Institutions to Join Them on Their SaaS Journey.
For the first time since 2019, thousands of participants met in person for the Ellucian Live conference in New Orleans. It was a memorable event with keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell and a host of major announcements from Ellucian. Attendees filed into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where they heard about Ellucian’s unapologetic plan to […]
Remove the Taboo from Centrally Managed Visualization Tools – Free the Data!
Do institutions provide centrally supported visualization platforms? Our work with higher education tells us that most institutions that have been successful in democratizing data analysis have made this move by using modern toolsets. (What are the modern toolsets? Check out our research!) Even as recently as five years ago, visualization tools that were easy to […]
Women in Tech: Melanie Boynton, Director of Enterprise Systems and Data Intelligence, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Melanie Boynton knew she had always wanted to work in government. When her supervisor asked her to work on a data project for the state of Virginia, it surprised her how much she enjoyed it, and from that one small step, a career in IT began. Hear more about Melanie’s excitement for data and analytics […]
