"It’s a very powerful tool and it’s been night and day. Something that might’ve taken my DBA an hour, took five minutes."

"There’s a future with Ellucian. You’re focusing on big picture things that can revolutionize the way technology is used on campus."

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

“We wanted a twist. We needed something to differentiate the program from all the others available.”

“My advice to other schools? They should work with Ellucian’s Academic and Grants Services. They’re miracle workers.”

"What Ellucian provides are foundational SaaS-enabled tools that support every single office on a campus."

"It involved several deans, the provost [and other individuals from her office], the registrar's office, and information technology services. It also was an opportunity for the registrar’s office to listen to the deans and get a good understanding of how their colleges function for purposes of optimization."

"We are not just doing Banner SaaS; we are doing Degree Works, we are going to Smart Plan, and we also have CRM Advise coming in as well."

"What CRM Advise does for us is it draws everything together into a very quick view that's available to everyone involved. More than that, it allows us to drill down on any particular area of student needs so that we can get a more granular view of what we need …

"We want our students to know that we're here to support them. Our goal is to be a true partner, helping them navigate the financial aid and student account processes as smoothly and efficiently as possible. A big part of our success relies on timely, effective communication. The Ellucian Student …

"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 knew that whatever student recruitment system we had, it had to be configurable, and we wanted to be able to do that ourselves. We wanted it to be a distributed system with flexibility of reporting. Fundamentally there weren’t that many vendors out there that could say they could do …

"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.”