Kuali gives lean teams one place to manage the work that keeps the institution moving, combining purpose-built higher ed solutions with the flexibility to automate the processes unique to your college.
Liberal arts colleges run on the same core processes as much larger institutions: curriculum approvals, hiring, budgets, student services, compliance. But with lean teams, that work still moves on paper, PDFs, and email, and a handful of people hold it all together. When one of them is out or moves on, the process, and the knowledge behind it, goes with them.
A smaller staff should mean a simpler operation, not a more fragile one.
Curriculum, hiring, student services, and compliance share the same data, workflows, and single sign-on, so a small team is not stitching together a dozen tools.
Turn the forms, PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets used across HR, finance, student services, and administration into governed digital workflows, without custom development.
Give every department access to approved AI models while IT manages governance, data protection, and costs from one place.
Manage curriculum, catalog, syllabi, degree audit, and planning together—so academic changes move from approval to students without being re-entered across systems.
Manage sponsored programs, research compliance, and the workflows around them without adding another collection of disconnected tools.
Coordinate advising, tutoring, coaching, appointments, and student communications so a lean team can reach more students with the support they need.
Ask what’s happening, create or change workflows, surface stalled work, and automate routine tasks using AI built into the platform.
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When everyone already wears multiple hats, AI shouldn't be another tool to manage. It should take work off the team's plate.
Ask what needs attention
Build a workflow from a prompt or PDF
Change forms and processes with natural language
Act on stalled work and approvals
Results from small colleges using Kuali to give lean teams the reach of a much larger staff.
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“Kuali is that rare organization that we have come to think of not as a vendor but a true partner.”
CIO, Davidson College
“I don’t think the curriculum office could have kept up this year if we didn’t have Kuali.”
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Director of System Analytics, Southern New Hampshire University
Launched 100+ Build applications in six months, with departments owning their processes while IT kept integrations.
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A three-person digital transformation team drove campus-wide change with Kuali Build.
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Cut a 10-step, paper-based HR approval process by up to four days, with full visibility into where each request sits.
Read the case study ->Small colleges tell us the relationship is what makes the difference. Kuali works alongside your team through setup and long after, with a peer community of colleges of every size solving the same problems you are. It is the difference between buying software and gaining a team that keeps adapting it as your needs change.
“What I love most about the Kuali Community is the collegial support you get to and from schools of all sizes.”
Director, Sponsored Programs & Research, Southern Connecticut State University
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