Ellucian Colleague

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

Operations have been reliable

Some increased costs have been unwelcome

Not as third-party friendly

Positive return on student impact and engagement

Positive relationship between our alumni and development staff

Consulting engagements do get costly with Ellucian professional services

We could not do business without Colleague.

Colleague unites campus and translates well across departments, which eases communication between employees working with student data.

Colleague tracks students and alumni, which reduces the amount of new data entry. A student in the system remains there forever, thus offering a holistic perspective of a student's history with the institution.

Colleague's systems limit data access and browser use, which does not encourage widespread use on campus.

Easy system to use to ensure emergency contact information is archived for current students and alumni.

Enables professional staff members to get in contact with students of concern helping to eliminate potentially harmful situations.

Colleague Student has helped the university bring in revenue through the ability to charge students for fees that they may incur.

With Colleague Student, we have been able to be more efficient in our department which has given us the opportunity to take on other projects that are helpful to our students.

Colleague Student has enabled my department to cut down on our paper consumption which has been a huge budget savings. Our old system was so untrustworthy that we were printing many things to keep in case we couldn't get the information out of the system again. With Colleague Student we do not have to do this. We have stopped printing many things we used to print.

Colleague Student has also helped us have a better handle on which students are preparing for graduation each semester. This allows us to more accurately print commencement materials, etc.

System flexible enough to develop "X" screens for new transcript types.

Development of planner is good, but lacks flexibility and feels clunky.

Being able to see the same information as Enrollment Services.

Learning to see how information is archived and noted by other departments.

Being able to handle a lot of student data all at once digitally.

By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.

Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.

Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.

When moving to Colleague, we were able to reduce the number of applications we had to integrate together

Fewer applications to pay service and support for each year

We were able to reduce headcount due to better workflows and efficiencies