Louisburg College Picks 'Touch-First' SIS
Louisburg
College has moved to an upgraded student information
system (SIS) designed for mobile access.
The two-year residential college had been a client of Three Rivers Systems for 15 years and decided to switch to Unit4 Student Management software when it acquired the company. Representatives at Lousiburg said they believe the move to
a new
SIS will make it easier to manage relationships with students, alumni,
prospective students and staff as opposed to simply performing routine
tasks.
Amir
Tajkarimi, senior vice president for global education at Unit4, said
its
software is based on a "touch-first" philosophy that means all
functions are accessible
via mobile devices, even if staff members in the college's back office
are
using desktop systems to deploy them.
As
a result, students can send applications, access student records, pay
tuition
and communicate with school representatives all with their smartphones.
Unit4
Student
Management provides applications for managing
five student-centric
processes: admissions, academics, financial aid and scholarships,
billing and
student and faculty portals.
Features of the system include:
- A common constituent-relationship management (CRM)
platform that allows the
institution to track the student from potential applicant through to
student,
graduate, alumnus and donor;
- Admissions technology with customizable workflows
to automate prospect
outreach campaigns;
- Built-in analytics with support for dashboard
set-up and drill-down; and
- Flexibility in course registration to accommodate
multiple course start and
end dates or course types.
"Louisburg will benefit from the agility offered
by this upgrade,"
Tajkarimi said. "Student Management will help to improve Louisburg's
operations
and help them transform their organization to operate at the next
level."
Louisburg College CIO Mark Joyner said, "We are
looking at this strategic
project as a way to strengthen our academic curriculum, improve student
support
services and upgrade our technology."
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