News, trends, and insights about higher education.
The student experience is taking center stage as higher ed institutions prioritize student success. It will require digital experiences, flexibility, educational options, and a rich set of accessible services to meet students where they are.
Washington State University (WSU) recently launched a modernization project with Workday to update its outdated and disjointed legacy systems. We talked with WSU’s Gerik Kimble and Jennifer Klein about how the project helped them make data-driven decisions, improve transparency, and streamline inefficient processes.
A whopping 96% of college students say a high-quality digital experience is important to their campus satisfaction. Experts from Accenture and Workday recently partnered to explain what this means for the higher education industry’s future.
In this episode, Marymount University CFO Robin Whitfield and CIO Carl Whitman discuss how the school modernized its technology to improve operations and provide differentiated services for its students.
Matt Sherman, our general manager of Workday Student, shares highlights about our student system and the momentum we’re seeing as more and more higher education institutions look to transform and elevate the student experience.
Digital transformation is more than just deploying new technology—it’s rethinking how you operate your entire organization. Florida Gulf Coast University CIO Mary Banks discusses how the school’s own transformation is enabling the leadership team to make better decisions that impact costs, productivity, and success.
The Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards honor industry-specific solutions from our services partners built on top of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning.
The increasing use of AI and ML is raising new questions around privacy, ethics, and regulation. Workday’s Jim Shaughnessy talked with Amie Stepanovich from the University of Colorado, Boulder to learn more.
This blog looks at how a modern higher education software enables educational leaders to foster student success, develop more effective business processes, gain deeper insights across the organization, and navigate a disruptive landscape.
Cooperative purchasing agreements and group contract vehicles allow higher education and public sector organizations to adopt cloud-based finance, human resources, planning, and student technologies more quickly and efficiently.
Ravi Ravishanker, CIO at Wellesley College, and Derek Wolf, vice president of customer success at Alchemy, a Workday services partner, tell us how three colleges worked together to better adopt a new technology platform.
As colleges and universities begin a new school year, IT leaders are focused on expanding business continuity plans to support remote work and more distance learning offerings. Kerrie Campbell, CIO at Flinders University, shares why agility is key for assisting staff and students.
Higher education has a lot to teach other industries when it comes to organizational agility. Although our study was conducted prior to the global pandemic, many of the pain points and opportunities identified by higher education respondents look prophetic in hindsight.
How will a wounded economy change expectations around upskilling or new skills development? And how will those changing expectations affect higher education? Our two guests on the Workday Podcast share their insights into the impact of COVID-19 on colleges and universities.
Chief Customer Officer Emily McEvilly shares how customers are using Workday to help them maintain business continuity and solve challenges created by the pandemic. Emily also discusses how customers have influenced new product configurations we’ve created to help them manage their businesses and workforces.
Opinder Bawa, CIO and vice president at the University of San Francisco, discusses digital transformation in higher ed and the bold steps CIOs can take to ensure their students experience college in a way that’s meaningful in person, online, and offline.
These colleges took a novel approach: they collaborated while simultaneously deploying Workday Student. Learn what they gained through this collaboration, and how Workday Student is preparing their organizations for a changing world.
Community colleges play a vital role in giving people affordable and accessible educational opportunities. And cloud technology, when used wisely, can improve the educational experience for students.
This year, we’ve significantly expanded the number of industry-specific sessions we’ll have at Workday Rising. Here’s a sample of some of the stories our customers will share about successes in their industries.
The world of work is evolving, and the skills needed in today’s workforce have changed. With this new reality, Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University (ASU), is guiding the institution’s transformation into one of the nation’s most innovative research universities. In this interview, he shares his views on the future of higher education, the importance of lifelong learning, and the role that technology plays.
The University of Pennsylvania is moving ahead with an HR transformation plan that it will accomplish with the help of Workday Human Capital Management. Jack Heuer, vice president of human resources at Penn, reveals the progress they’ve made toward becoming an even more connected campus.
While the pressure for increased accountability can seem daunting for higher education institutions, having the right systems in place can provide a win-win solution. Learn how higher education institutions can leverage cloud technologies to drive student success.
A huge mismatch exists between what higher education institutions offer in terms of digital tools, and what students themselves want when they get to campus. Watch our video to find out how Workday's recently-graduated product managers build a system with students in mind.
When considering the right finance and HR system for the school, Mur Muchane, CIO at Wake Forest University, knew he would need to team up with campus colleagues and conduct a thorough assessment of the university’s technology infrastructure before selecting vendors. We sat down with Muchane to discuss the challenges he faced, the benefits of undertaking a project this way, and why Wake Forest ultimately selected Workday Financial Management and HCM.
Next-generation IT is top-of-mind for many higher education CIOs. How can new technologies help colleges and universities better support our next generation of students?
LSU President F. King Alexander discusses the value of data, the CIO's role in higher education, and what educators need to understand about today's students.
EDUCAUSE has revealed its "Top 10 IT issues," and once again student success—and technology's ability to support it—is on the list. Liz Dietz explains how the newly released Workday Student system was designed from scratch to help higher education institutions focus on student satisfaction and success.
Here's where you can find Workday leaders, customers, and partners this week at EDUCAUSE 2016 in Anaheim, Calif.
Only one-third of college students go immediately into their chosen careers after graduation, while the rest will take several years or more to find their paths. Author Jeffrey J. Selingo identifies three things that lead to more immediate success.
Finance leaders from Brown University and the City of Orlando share their experiences as customer design partners for Workday Planning, and how this new product will impact their organizations.
Liz Dietz discusses the general availability of Workday Student, a system we've built hand-in-hand with our customer design partners to bring a truly modern student information system to market.
In celebration of the general availability of Workday Student next week, we sat down with Broward College's Patti Barney, VP of IT, and Caleb Cornelius, associate VP of student business services, to talk about their journey as early design partners.
The higher education landscape is changing, requiring colleges to take a closer look at the way students are learning and preparing for life after the classroom. Liz Dietz explains how Workday and its design partners are rethinking the tried-and-true methods of the past and building something to support the next generation of students.
Three higher-education administrators discuss how their colleges are adapting to changing student and employer expectations through the use of modern technologies and student systems in this episode of In Good Company.
How have Abbott Labs, Cardinal Health, and Vassar College managed changes resulting from mergers and acquisitions, new business models, and more? Read on and learn.
Guess blogger and author Jeff Selingo shares four institutional practices that can better connect a student’s undergraduate education to the demands of the modern job market.
Workday's Liz Dietz discusses the disconnect between education and occupation, the rise of a new learning model called competency-based education, and how Workday intends to support new approaches to learning with Workday Student.
Workday Student Admissions, developed with substantial input from more than 20 higher education institutions, helps admissions officers address the deluge of student applications.
Higher education institutions are dealing with big changes. The makeup of their workforces has shifted, the role of their HR teams has evolved, and many are looking to replace dated process and systems with modern approaches and technologies. Mike Knitter, interim associate vice president at the University of Chicago, shares his tips and thoughts on change in today’s Workday Community Voices.
Colleges and universities are moving their administrative systems to the cloud to meet the modern-day expectations of students and employees. Read these tips from Workday customers on how they prepared employees for the change.
Technology has impacted many roles in academia, including the university registrar. Nancy Specht, assistant dean for institutional research and the university registrar for the University of Rochester in New York, explains how the registrar’s office has become a technology hub and partner to IT. Specht also talks about how the university is partnering with us and other customers on the continuing design of Workday Student, and why she turned from skeptic to Workday Student’s “biggest cheerleader.”
Workday VP John Webb discusses our industry strategy, and reveals what makes Workday—and our customers—unique in how we approach this effort.
Workday@College is a new training and internship program for college students. Learn more about Workday@College in our interview with Bill Wilson, a former Navy SEAL who joined Workday last fall to lead the new program.
Last fall we introduced Workday Student Recruiting, the first application as part of Workday Student. We’ve worked closely with colleges and universities to design this offering and have developed a deep understanding of the pressures they face to get student recruiting right.
In the book “College Unbound,” author Jeff Selingo observes that if online dating sites can “help two people fall in love based on a short questionnaire, we should be able to design a better method for matching students with colleges.” Selingo’s observation highlights one of the biggest challenges that higher institutions face today: recruiting the right students.
Today we announced Workday Student Recruiting, following a year of close collaboration with nine customer design partners from a variety of colleges and universities. It is so important for higher-education institutions to get recruiting right. In this video, I talk a little bit about why it's critical, and what happens when they get it wrong. I wrap that up with a tour of the application.
As millions of members of the digital generation went off to college for the first time this month, they arrived on campuses largely built for an analog age and not ready for how today's students learn, communicate, and engage with the world around them. Ultimately, it is these students and those following them within the next 10 years who will drive colleges to reimagine the future of higher education.
Since we announced plans to develop Workday Student last fall, we've teamed with nine universities to build this end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle management solution. We knew of the challenges institutions and their students face before we started this work, and we've seen first-hand how older administrative systems fall short of addressing them. Of most concern in our society on the topic of higher education is that too many students, after spending large amounts of money and time on their college experiences, have difficulty finding meaningful employment upon graduation.
With two kids in college and three more close behind, like any parent, I hope for the best possible experience for them. I want them to have a clear understanding of the course paths they’ll need to take to earn their degrees, course availability, other interesting on-campus opportunities, and so forth. I want them to feel that their universities are supporting their needs and guiding them through their college years. And, of course, being an information systems guy, I want them to have easy access to all the course and college information they need, which in this age means a social and mobile experience.
This month marks the beginning of a new era for Brown University that encompasses our people, our processes, and how we use technology to support our community. We just went live on Workday for Education & Government, a cloud-based administrative system for our workforce of more than 11,000 people.
