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What is Ellucian Colleague?
Ellucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.
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College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
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As our Student ERP System. We also use this one to comply with all Federal and State mandated reports and obligations. Ellucian Colleague has a tracking system - to follow all the activities and relations within the Student ERP Systems.
- WebUI - User Interface
- Self Service
- Degree Audit
- Financial Aid
- Registration
- Federal and State Reporting
- Student Planning
- Tracking
- 320 Reports
- Waitlist and Add Permission
- HR Modules
- Fiscal Modules
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- Modernization Contract - kept the prices increase stable & affordable
- Better systems for recruiting, enrollments, retainment, and degree audit
- Better scheduling and data security/maintenance
- Self Service
Banner & PeopleSoft are using the very expensive Oracle DB - while they all have very similar features. Currently, another solution provider is available - WorkDay: but they are still very new that they do not have all the necessary Federal and State Reports. Their FInancial Aid is lacking too.
Ellucian Colleague is used as the main ERP system for our college. We have in use many of the modules that are available, such as Core Student, Human Resources, Purchasing, Student planning, and ETHOS. It handles the student registration process, employee management, student record management, business office functions, and also integrates with many third-party systems.
- It encompasses many areas needed to support our students
- Ellucian Colleague offers solutions that make it easy to unite our staff with students and alumni
- Its a versatile solution and adaptable with third-party solutions as well
- Their portal technology is outdated; they still currently use SharePoint 2013.
- Engagement from Ellucian customer representatives
- Recruiting module needs to be updated to match other solutions in the industry.
- Self-service features
- Integration with third-party solutions
- Ability to customize to fit our needs.
- Positive return on student impact and engagement
- Positive relationship between our alumni and development staff
- Consulting engagements do get costly with Ellucian professional services
Ellucian Colleague has been in use at my institution for over 20 years. We have recently reevaluated the solution and, from a financial perspective, it was our decision to stick with it for the future as well. We have realigned our budget working with Ellucian and partnering for the future by adopting early access to new modules and providing feedback.
November 28, 2018
Colleague: A product of yesteryear
Ellucian Colleague is the main student system used by Elon University. The system is connected to a host of disparate systems across campus. The enterprise wide system is used to track the life-cycle of the student.
- The system retains comprehensive baseline modules covering majority of challenges an institution would face.
- Flexible enough to customize to meet the needs of the institution.
- System flexibility to connect to "other" systems preferred by the institution.
- Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
- Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
- Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
- System flexible enough to develop "X" screens for new transcript types.
- Development of planner is good, but lacks flexibility and feels clunky.
Workday's cloud based system has more flexibility than Colleague Student. While it seems Ellucian is responding with developmental efforts, the company waited too long to begin the process.