These challenges posed significant obstacles to UMass Amherst’s ability to offer a smooth, streamlined, and user-friendly application experience. It also hindered administrative efficiency and data integrity, prompting a need for strategic intervention.

To address this need, UMass Amherst partnered with Solidan to implement a single application solution through Slate. This solution needed to align the application experience with the Slate-supported undergraduate and graduate processes that had already been established.

In an effort to modernize and simplify its student application process, Illinois Central College (ICC)—a comprehensive community college in Illinois—embarked on a digital transformation project to replace its legacy system, TargetX, and streamline how prospective students apply and interact with the college.

ICC offers a diverse array of academic and workforce training programs. These include associate degree programs, dual enrollment opportunities for high school students, GED and ESL courses, non-credit classes, and the nation’s first prison education program. The goal was to implement a single, centralized application experience for all of these programs, using Slate as the new CRM platform.

Introducing the Inside the Cubicle Webinar Series: A New Resource for Career Guidance in Slate

This past Monday saw the launch of a new webinar series designed to provide insightful guidance on career paths, roles, and opportunities within the Slate Community.

You may have heard the rumors that the default UI in Slate is changing - and soon.

It’s true. As of November 26, 2024, all Slate databases will be switched over to the default theme called Modern UI. It has previously been available for users to self-select, but this month will see all users across all databases switch to the new and updated UI as the system default.

So why are we changing it? The answer lies in our commitment to making Slate more intuitive, powerful, and adaptable for our users.

You’ve asked us for years now to offer a Slate certification program, and you’ve given a variety of reasons. Over and over, however, one of the most common involves professional development and wanting a way to indicate to others that we at Technolutions recognize your abilities to work with Slate.

We have always made Slate Summit sessions available to be user-led presentations, which is one way to prove to your institutions that you are a Slate superstar. But that isn’t always enough.

Enter Slate Certified.

Join us from June 25-27, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada for our first three-day Summit and a celebration of 25 years of Slate. Opening Session kicks off on Wednesday morning, and the full schedule of sessions and affinity groups wraps up at 1:00 PM on Friday with our annual Road Ahead closing session and a look at what’s next.

Curious what our Preferred Partners can do for you? We’ve rounded up some highlights from the past month, including podcasts from enrollmentFUEL, working sessions with HCRC and Post-Captain, and more!

You asked, and we answered: Slate Summit is now even bigger and better with three full days of programming. Save the date to join us in Las Vegas, NV from June 25-27, 2025 for more sessions presented by members of the Slate Community, more opportunities to connect with our Preferred Partners, more affinity breakout groups, and new feature and functionality reveals to make you ooh and ahh.

As part of our ongoing work to provide the tools you need in your Slate database, our Slate for Advancement team hosted a group from Slate Platinum Preferred Partner Post-Captain in early September for an all-day Build-a-thon. This follows previous successful builds in collaboration with Platinum Preferred Partners HCRC and BWF.

In this episode of Slate-a-Minute with FGI Consultants, Allen Tang takes you through the use cases for building “nightly processing” rules for Slate Inbox assignments and offers advice to get started in your own database.

When Queens University of Charlotte converted to Slate several years ago, a short implementation period coupled with staff turnover resulted in their new Advancement instance not being fully leveraged. The current team knew there was more they could do to utilize all the tools and features available to them, so they turned to Platinum Preferred Partner BWF…

Level up your Slate game with new RHB Academy Virtual Courses from RHB, a division of Strata Information Group. From mastering configurable joins to learning to develop accurate and meaningful reports, these courses will help you unlock your Slate potential.

Join FGI Solutions’ Tristan Deveney to look at “Group Bys in Subqueries” within Slate.

Technolutions’ own Cody Gray sits down with enrollmentFUEL’s Katie Jordan for episode 33, titled Post-Slate Summit: A Recap With Cody Gray to talk about Slate Summit 2024.

Danielle Buczek of Brandeis and Jasmine Solomon of NYU discuss their presentation Solutions in Action: Real-World Troubleshooting Examples in this episode of the ReWorkflow podcast

We are excited to announce the launch of a new video series, Slate Bytes! These bite-sized educational videos are designed to help you get the most out of Slate. Subscribe to our channel on Youtube to stay up to date on the latest Slate Bytes.

Learn about how RHB created a coherent, functional and inspiring journey for prospective Auburn students.

We have everything you need to put your knowledge from Slate Summit 2024 into practice! The 2024 Executive Summary is live and presentation slides are now available in Knowledge Base.

Susanna Lehman sits down with Tori Simon, enrollmentFUEL's very own Associate Vice President of Campaign Strategies. Tori brings valuable insight on digital strategies schools can use to reach prospective students and how these can be tied back to Slate.

Slate Summit 2024 was an incredible gathering of Slate users from all over the country. The annual conference, which was held at Chicago’s Navy Pier, brought together a whopping 4500 Slate users. The event was a unique opportunity for participants to share their experiences, learn about new Slate features, and network with other higher education professionals.