Key Highlights
- Serving more than 9,600 students, Parkland has established a unified, AI-powered, SaaS-native platform to support student success and operational excellence.
- New ERP establishes modern user-centric analytics and reporting infrastructure, enabling College departments to independently perform data analysis and generate reports.
- Using modern integration capabilities, Parkland College can improve automation and drive meaningful business process improvements.
- The new platform strengthens security, reduces system maintenance demands, and creates more capacity for innovation across campus.
CHAMPAIGN, IL and RESTON, VA — Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced that Parkland College has successfully gone live on its new SaaS-native technology platform with Ellucian Student, Human Capital Management (HCM), and Finance powered by Colleague. Together, these solutions bring the College's student information system and core administrative functions for HR and financial management onto a unified, AI-powered platform. An Ellucian customer for nearly 20 years, Parkland's go-live marks an important step in modernizing its technology environment to support greater efficiency, security, and data analytics and service across campus.
Building a Stronger Foundation for Student Success
Serving approximately 9,600 students annually, Parkland College has modernized the systems that support students and campus operations alike. Ellucian Student is higher education’s complete solution that powers the end-to-end student lifecycle. Together with Ellucian HCM and Finance, Ellucian Student delivers improved access to information, better aligns operations, and creates more capacity to serve students, faculty, and staff.
"Parkland College's successful go-live reflects the institution's ongoing investment in the people and services at the heart of its work," said Laura Ipsen, President and CEO, Ellucian. "Bringing Student, HCM, and Finance together in one modern environment strengthens Parkland's ability to engage its community in learning while advancing the operational excellence and support that help students succeed."
Advancing a Connected Campus Experience
"Modernizing our Student, HCM, and Finance systems is a major milestone for Parkland College and a testament to the dedication and collaboration of our campus community," said Amin Kassem, Parkland's AVP and Chief Information Officer. "More than a technology upgrade, this work creates a stronger, more connected foundation that empowers the Parkland community to serve students, support employees, and move forward together, while expanding access to data and analytics for better insight and decision-making across the college."
With the new systems in place, Parkland is now better positioned to:
- provide modern self-service experiences that make it easier for students, faculty, and staff to access information and complete key tasks.
- improve visibility across the student journey to support engagement, progress, and informed decision-making.
- streamline HR and finance operations to strengthen service, increase efficiency, and free staff to focus on higher-value work across campus.
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