“As a community college, we have an incredibly diverse student population. We will never achieve a one-size-fits-all technology solution. But, we also have limited resources and must use them wisely. Ellucian has helped us figure out when it’s appropriate to invest in state of the art technology and when it’s …

“This is what they saw on the screens, and this is the answer that they gave them.”

"I am an advocate for Degree Works. If a school wants to implement the concept of pathways, it’s almost a no-brainer."

“By bringing three databases into one, licensing, databases and infrastructure management is much smoother than before. Having now reduced the number of servers needed for the full implementation for the three entities by approximately 60 percent, there is also a huge operational cost-saving aspect.”

“We’re evaluating the possibility of implementing a number of other Banner systems to further improve our efficiency and service levels, because we now see the value in such investments. Now that the system is unified, it will be far easier to implement further technologies.”

"Everything we do, we have got to try and do it in a way that maximises an individual student’s time on campus, to really leverage this, and at the same time enable students to take the campus with them and access all the services they need when off-site.”

“The upgrade to Banner 9 - following the move to cloud, was infinitely easier - from our perspective. Without the availability of global resource, we would have been looking at significant downtime for the platform to get those upgrades in place.”

“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.”

"It was very, very important that we got a system that was up-to-date, a system that was more this century, mobile-friendly—be able to use it on the phone, on the iPad, or whatever you are using—user friendly, and able to learn the system very easily and quickly was very, very …

"We've been on Banner for [30] years and see no reason to switch to any inferior ERP system, seeing that Banner is the very best in the education space."

"The students like the self-service features. They like being able to look at things and move things around on their plan. They like that they have access to it at all times, and they like how they can control it."

"When you have real-time integrations, the financial benefit you're going to see is in retention."

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

"It's effective because the proof's in the pudding. We've brought in a record class and right now, we're running ahead of that record class."

"We help institutions jump start IT."