FOR MULTI-CAMPUS SYSTEMS

One platform across every campus. Room for each to run its own way.

Systems have to standardize infrastructure, security, and governance across many campuses while letting each one operate on its own terms. Kuali gives you one platform for shared standards and data, with the flexibility for every campus to build and run the processes it needs.

CENTRAL GOVERNANCE MEETS LOCAL AUTONOMY

Standardize too hard and campuses resist. Too little and nothing connects.

Running a multi-campus system means holding two things at once: shared standards, security, and reporting across the system, and the autonomy each campus needs to run its own operations. Force every campus onto identical processes and adoption stalls. Let each build in isolation and you lose visibility, consistency, and economies of scale, while central teams end up supporting a dozen versions of everything.

The goal isn't one process for everyone, it's one platform for every process.

Built campus by campus

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Standards drift apart

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Duplicated across sites

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No system-wide view

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Costly to support

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ONE PLATFORM, MANY JOBS

Shared infrastructure, campus-level flexibility.

Every campus works in the same platform, with shared security, integrations, and governance, while keeping the workspace and processes each one needs.

System-Wide and Campus-Level Workflows

Turn the forms, PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets used across HR, finance, student services, and administration into governed digital workflows, without custom development. 

AI Gateway

Give every institution, campus, and department access to approved AI models while IT manages governance, data protection, and costs from one place. 

Academic Operations 

Manage curriculum, catalog, syllabi, degree audit, and planning together, so academic changes move from approval to students without being re-entered across systems. 

Research Administration

Manage sponsored programs, research compliance, and the workflows around them without adding another collection of disconnected tools. 

Student Success

Coordinate advising, tutoring, coaching, appointments, and student communications so a lean team can reach more students with the support they need. 

AI-Native Platform

Ask what’s happening, create or change workflows, surface stalled work, and automate routine tasks using AI built into the platform. 

AI-NATIVE

Talk to Kuali across the whole system.

Generic AI chatbots don’t understand how a multi-campus system runs. Kuali’s AI does, because it works inside your real workflows and permissions, so system and campus teams can work with it using plain language. It reads your data, drafts the work, and gives central teams system-wide visibility without taking autonomy from any campus.

Ask questions in plain language across every campus’s data

Create forms and workflows from a PDF or a sentence

Let it surface status, gaps, and approvals system-wide

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TRUSTED BY SYSTEMS LIKE YOURS

Systems already run on Kuali.

Results from multi-campus systems using Kuali to standardize and connect without flattening what makes each campus distinct.

12M

processes automated

350+

institutions served

20 years

in higher education

$118B

total grants managed

25M+

transactions

“We stopped building every workflow ourselves and focused on integration architecture and governance, so campus teams could innovate safely in one connected ecosystem.”

Max Tsai

Director of Training and Digital Transformation, California State University, Fresno

“The closeness of the relationship with Kuali exceeds that of our typical software vendors. This partnership sets the tone for how we work with partners and vendors.”

Kevin Chou

Deputy CIO, UC San Diego

University of Hawaii

Runs Kuali Build as the systemwide no-code platform across ten campuses. Executive approvals fell from weeks to under 24 hours.

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Indiana University

Manages 800 active continuity plans on one standardized system, with each campus tailoring plans to its own needs.

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University of Connecticut

Cut staff-hour costs by 40% while holding steady at 600 purchase requests a year, across five campuses.

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SUPPORTIVE BY DESIGN

A partner at the scale of your system.

Kuali supports systems the way they operate: one implementation and support model across every campus, backed by teams with years of higher education experience. Central groups get a consistent partner and standards, and each campus gets the flexibility to run its own way.

“Kuali combines a scalable platform with a responsive, collaborative team that truly understands higher education.”

Molly Thompson

Senior Deputy University Registrar, Vanderbilt University

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