Higher education leaders spend a lot of time talking about data—how to collect it, protect it and analyze it. But a question often left unasked is: how is this data actually used to communicate with students? For years, institutions have leaned on their Student Information Systems (SIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms to serve…Read more
Tag: Slate
Reflections on Slate Summit 2024
Erin Gore, vice president for client technology Slate Summit 2024 in Chicago featured more than 4,500 attendees and 149 presenters. Additionally, this year marked our largest pre-Summit RHB Academy training to date, with 150 Slate users from more than 70 institutions. If that wasn’t enough, we got to celebrate the success of our friends at…Read more
Preparing for AI in Slate and Beyond
Oh no, the robots are coming! Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence–and not the Terminator kind. AI isn’t new, but we’re experiencing the mass adoption of generative AI in our jobs and in our everyday lives–including higher education CRMs. Some features announced during the 2023 Technolutions Slate Summit included the…Read more
Three Steps to Simplifying Slate Security
Paraphrasing a famous theoretical physicist: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Slate has many layers and is, by necessity, complex. We ask it to do a lot for our operations, and it generally does it all exceptionally well. Concepts transfer. Learning to write a Configurable Joins query in one part…Read more
Prepare to Launch: Going Live with Slate
The process of launching your Slate database can be an intimidating one, but it doesn’t have to be. Having completed hundreds of implementations with institutions of all types, the RHB team has developed a pre-flight checklist and identified best practices for both first-time implementations and ongoing cycle prep to help you navigate your start with…Read more
Transcript: Foster Student Belonging With a Coherent Deposit to Day One Strategy
RHB Vice President for Enrollment Management Ken Anselemnt led a January 24 webinar as part of the Leading Edge Thinking in Higher Education Series by Bay Path University’s Center for Higher Education Leadership and Innovative Practice (CHELIP). The journey to student success (and retention) doesn’t begin when students arrive at your institution—it starts when they…Read more
To Merge or Not to Merge? Pros and Cons of Merging Multiple Databases in Slate
At RHB, we have seen an increase in institutions interested in consolidating multiple admissions databases into one central Slate hub. It’s a trend that we expect to continue in the near future. According to Higher Ed Dive, 100 institutions have closed, merged, consolidated or announced plans to do so since 2016. Often, each school or…Read more
Best Practices for Slate Communications: 2023 Edition
This post contains terminology that will be familiar to seasoned users of Slate. If you’re new to the Slate universe, we recommend reading the first (and if you’re really curious, the second and third) installments of our previous three-part series on Configurable Joins. If you need a refresher on Slate-specific terminology, this glossary is also…Read more
Managing Slate’s Changes Regarding Race and Ethnicity Data
If you’re using Slate for your admissions and enrollment processes, you may have noticed that, as of July 12, race and ethnicity data that had been stored in the standard Slate race and ethnicity fields (e.g., race, hispanic) are no longer being displayed on the person record, the Reader or Slate application PDFs. This was…Read more
Stand-Up Paddle Boarding, Technology and Strategy
“I’m going to paddle board to the opposite side of the lake.” “How?” “I’ve got a paddle board.” My oldest son is as pragmatic as they come. There’s a lot of black and white in our conversations, and while I also fall in the realist camp in most areas of my life, it’s important to…Read more