“We sought to improve the academic experience and service our students with greater effectivity. Today we have a designated team to service and respond during the registration process and support for the different payment methods.”

“It makes a big difference, having a great partner like Ellucian that you feel comfortable with, and that you have a good relationship with. We know that when we need them, they are there to step in anytime. I am a real fan of this partnership.”

"I think this is something a lot of institutions will eventually adopt. The benefits are just too great."

"Our initiative has had tremendous success with students, faculty, and staff."

"I believe all the major features that any higher education institution needs can be found in this system."

“We are the definition of a very small school. And, with very limited resources, sometimes we have to be creative. Ellucian has been very helpful in getting us on the right track.”

"The process completely changed. It makes it much easier for our office, much smoother."

"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.”

"The previous platform is a legacy platform that has not kept up with the developments that would facilitate the teaching and learning needs of the organization. We have a system that has been really stagnant for the last 20 years. We recently came up with a technology plan that aspires …

"You cannot build an environment of student success if you do not have operational success."

“58% of documents have already been reviewed by our staff by the time the semester begins, which is a significant improvement. With less time spent on manual reviews, they can redirect their efforts toward more valuable work.”

"I think that the most beneficial piece of Ellucian CRM Recruit is the way that we can now communicate easier, quicker, faster, and more accurately with our prospective students."

“We’ve been able to automate a lot of things that have, in the past, been fairly mundane tasks for somebody. Those changes allowed counselors and general admissions staff to focus on recruiting higher caliber students.”

“From an operational standpoint, the real advantage with Ellucian CRM Recruit is we don’t have to write the import for Ellucian Colleague for SAT and ACT scores and applications. It’s all part of the Recruit import. Previously, when the new formats came out, we had to dedicate programmer time to …