“Ellucian CRM Recruit has taken a lot of stress out of our application process and admission process. Since we’ve gone to Recruit, we’ve been able to go down to about a quarter of the time it used to take.”

“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.”

“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.”

"The bi-directional feed between Ellucian CRM Recruit and Banner works well with verifications and distributions. No other CRMs did this they all did it with batching, and we initially looked at 25 of them."

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

"Colleague was just better for us. It can grow to fit our needs."

“Up to that point, most of our departments had been asking for more staff to keep up with the manual workload of the previous system. Now, with Colleague, a staff of 11 people could get down to 9, for example. That was a big selling point for the university’s CFO, …

"Ellucian CRM Recruit has made life easier for both staff and students. Our work is more efficient, our marketing more targeted, and our relationships with prospects stronger. All of this is reflected in the improved numbers for inquiries, applications, and enrollment."

“It’s that personalization that makes adult students feel like you understand their specific needs and have the bandwidth to support them as individuals. CRM Recruit allows UIW to provide all users with communication templates that save time and keep messaging consistent, but which can be easily customized for specific recipients.”

"The turnaround time that we’re able to provide is the big win."

"I'm excited about this. I think it's going to be beneficial; I like where it's going."

"If you like data, if you like to make sure everything is simple for the end user, this is definitely a product that I would suggest."

“The CIO assigned to us is fabulous. [A]t a school like Becker, the match between the CIO and college is going to be important.”

"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.”