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Slate for Admissions

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What is Slate for Admissions?

Slate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to CRM, outreach and communications, travel management, online applications, online reading, student success and retention, and alumni and donor engagement.

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Great tool for enrollment management

Incentivized
Adam Wu, Ed.DView profile
Director of Undergraduate Admission in Customer Service at University of La Verne (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As the former Director of Undergraduate Admission, I used Slate for Admissions to track our progress throughout the recruitment year to see if we would bring in enough students for the following. Slate for Admissions was so valuable in helping us to run reports on where to spend our recruitment time and energy throughout different stages of the enrollment funnel from prospect all the way to enrolled student.

Pros

  • Run queries to identify different population subsets within the applicant pool
  • Event management tools
  • Tracking student enrollment deposits

Cons

  • Being able to have students register at an event without needing a wifi network
  • Easier way to update records for individuals who move to a different organization
  • Being able to start an application first without needing to immediately set up a user name and password.

Return on Investment

  • Helped us recruit some of our largest classes in university history
  • Easier user interface so multiple departments using one platform
  • Easy to generate reports based on specific criteria

Other Software Used

BannerFlow, StarRez

The CRM of all CRMs

Incentivized
Iliana HernandezView profile
Senior Admissions Counselor at Southwestern Assemblies of God University (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slate is being used by our university for the entire admissions process and for communication to prospective and applied/admitted students. It also being used as a contact database for organization contacts from churches to schools. It is being used for event management from overnight events to appointments and walk-ins. It is used for communication logging from sms messaging to phone conversations.

Pros

  • Their innovation and frequent release of new features.
  • Their ease of integration that makes use by any school absolutely customized.
  • Their invitation to be part of a large conversation on slate. [Their Twitter feed on the dashboard regarding all things slate]

Cons

  • Probably just the aesthetics of layout.
  • The layout and user friendliness of the mobile app.
  • As much as I love their organic marketing strategy, I would love marketing material to share with other schools while I'm on the road. [Youtube demo, clean social media channels, etc]

Return on Investment

  • It has dismissed the need for outside services such as Wufoo and Active Campaign.
  • It has dismissed the admissions main use of an outdated "crm": ECAMS.
  • It has intertwined the way that we house everything from digital documents to interactions in a simpler interface.

Alternatives Considered

cams and Wufoo

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Canva, EZOfficeInventory

Clean Slate

Karen Houppert
MA in Writing Program Director at Johns Hopkins Univrsity (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My university uses Slate[, by Technolutions] to manage applications for prospective students.

Pros

  • Organizing diverse sets of information
  • Fairly easy to navigate
  • Condenses info into downloadable pdf

Cons

  • Doesn't automatically advance to the next application in the queue once one application is processed
  • Doesn't allow an easy view of other queues to see what is coming down the pike
  • Doesn't allow users to copy email of applicants

Return on Investment

  • We aren't really a business, per se, but a nonprofit university. However, Slate[, by Technolutions] does allow us to easily sort applications into categories for different departments to review. And it provides a clear trail of who is looking at various documents when--and how long it takes to process them.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Evernote, Zoom

Hands Down a Great CRM for Higher Ed

Incentivized
Ashley WatsonView profile
Coordinator in Marketing at Asbury Theological Seminary (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Guided tutorials found in knowledgebase
  • Data Management
  • Functionality

Cons

  • Additional customization would ne nice
  • Constant enhancements
  • Wish there was more put into emailing and campaigns

Return on Investment

  • Decreased workload for employees
  • Accurate data tracking
  • Excellent reporting features

Other Software Used

Trello, FileMaker Pro, Infogram

Usability

Powerful insights help drive enrollment goals

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Marketing (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slate is our prospective student information system. We use it to collect and manage prospective student data, campus visits and events, applications for admission and scholarships, and communications to students and parents. We started with our undergraduate programs and have recently expanded to include our graduate programs, as well. It also helps us to track our enrollment goals in real-time with powerful query and reporting tools.

Pros

  • Queries and reports.
  • Drip marketing.
  • Student data management.
  • Event management.
  • Application review.

Cons

  • Customer service.
  • Training and user support.
  • Including print mailings in drip marketing.
  • YOY reporting.

Return on Investment

  • Increased enrollment.
  • Increased student engagement with admissions counselors.
  • Increased event and campus visit attendance.
  • Increased email campaign performance.
  • Decreased time spent on data management.

Alternatives Considered

Ellucian Banner

Other Software Used

Ellucian Banner, BEE Pro

Usability

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