"If I could give any other institution advice about Banner 9, it would be this: Don’t put off implementation. It serves your students well."

"We were definitely lucky we rolled Recruit out when we did because it is so user-friendly, and it’s web-based. My team had to work from home—everything my recruiters needed was in the cloud. That was huge."

“With Ellucian, I know I’ll always get an answer to my questions. There’s so much support. With e-Communities I can connect with other schools and see what they’re doing. There’s plenty of documentation, the Support Center, and consulting is always available. Ellucian is responsive to what I need. I really …

"We wanted to modernize the student experience and make it as seamless as possible, Our goal was to create a one-stop shop where students can find everything they need in one place."

"Before we had Elevate, we didn’t know what our total enrollment was on a year-by-year basis and now our goal is to offer more classes, and with Elevate we can. I know we’ve already seen a significant uptick in enrollment because it’s so easy for students to enroll and pay."

"The reason why we purchased the Talent Management Suite is to tie together the processes of recruiting and retaining our current employees."

"Personalization through Raise Me means recruitment counselors are more informed when they engage with students."

“With Ellucian, we feel that it’s more of a partnership versus a vendor/client relationship. And the way Ellucian structures its relationship with clients mirrors a higher education environment: there’s a sense of ‘shared governance,’ which institutions value.”

"Smart Plan reduced manual workload for our advisers and is teaching our students to be more self-sufficient."

"I think a lot of institutions should implement an IT governance model, and they will realize, as did Brookdale, how it was the one, important element that was missing."

"We wanted to clear away the clouds and identify the technology that was most important. The plan would help us map expectations to our strategic plan so that we could rank projects accordingly.”

"We had no central source for student information, and processes such as registration were manual, fragmented and time-consuming."

"This kind of connectivity to student information, easily and quickly accessed, helps faculty, staff, and leadership see the whole student, which means they can support the whole student."

“We can now find accurate information in one or two clicks, not 14 or 15 clicks through multiple systems and spreadsheets. It has significantly improved our back-end efficiency in order to better serve the students up front.”

"Because of the success of this project, we are looking at many new ways to use the wealth of information we already possess in Colleague to help drive other improvements."