Build, maintain, and manage business continuity plans across your institution with a solution designed specifically for higher education.
A university is more than a workplace. Academic instruction, research, technology, facilities, residential life, and critical services all need to keep operating when disruption occurs. Kuali Ready gives departments a structured way to identify what matters, document how they'll respond, and keep those plans current.
Stephen Morash, Director of Emergency Management, Boston University
Kuali Ready brings planning, ownership, dependencies, workflows, and plan status into one place so continuity teams can see what's ready, what needs attention, and who needs to act.
Guide departments through a structured planning process designed around higher education continuity best practices.
Document the functions each unit depends on and what is required to keep them operating.
Capture the people, facilities, technology, vendors, and other dependencies required for continuity.
See plan progress across departments and quickly identify plans that are incomplete or overdue.
Keep planning moving with workflows, alerts, reminders, and assigned action items.
Adapt forms and planning processes to the unique needs of your institution and individual units.
Fewer outdated or incomplete continuity plans.
Less manual follow-up with departments and plan owners.
Greater visibility into institutional readiness and critical dependencies.
Living, actionable continuity plans across campus—so your institution is better prepared when disruption happens.
One place to build plans, understand dependencies, track progress, and keep continuity planning moving.
Route plans to the right people and automate assignments, approvals, reminders, and follow-up.
Guide departments through continuity planning and keep critical information current with scheduled reviews.
See what's complete, what's in progress, and where plans need attention from one dashboard.
Adapt continuity forms, fields, instructions, and planning requirements to the way your institution operates.
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Build, test, and update continuity workflows without waiting on developers or custom code.
Route plans to the right people and automate assignments, approvals, reminders, and follow-up.
Guide departments through continuity planning and keep critical information current with scheduled reviews.
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See what's complete, what's in progress, and where plans need attention from one dashboard.
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Adapt continuity forms, fields, instructions, and planning requirements to the way your institution operates.
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Build, test, and update continuity workflows without waiting on developers or custom code.
Continuity planning happens across colleges, departments, administrative units, research operations, facilities, and IT. Ready gives continuity leaders a central view without requiring every unit to operate exactly the same way.
Know which plans are current, incomplete, or overdue.
Understand where critical functions rely on shared people, systems, facilities, and services.
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Make responsibilities and action items clear.
Quickly identify plans and units that need follow-up.
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Manage export requests and compliance requirements.
Universities have academic instruction, laboratories, research, residence halls, IT infrastructure, facilities, student services, events, and administrative operations operating simultaneously. Ready was designed around those realities rather than adapting a generic corporate continuity tool to higher education.
Tim Wilson, CIO, Point Park University
Ready can track plan status, identify overdue plans, maintain team notes, send prompts and reminders, and let plan owners keep their own information updated, without central administrators having to babysit the process.
From research universities to community colleges, institutions rely on Kuali Ready for the continuity plans that keep campus running through a disruption.
With 34,000 students and 310 buildings to plan for, BU moved away from a homegrown system that was hard to use. Three years in, about 75% of its colleges and schools maintain their own plans directly.
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Sacramento State needed plans specific to each of its 53 academic programs, tailored to real risks tied to its location on the American River, including flooding and wildfires.
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Continuity & Safety Specialist Kendall Emerick revitalized outdated, disconnected plans and built a lasting culture of continuity across campus.
Read the case study ->More on automating institutional workflows, reducing manual coordination, and moving requests off email and paper. Start with these, then explore the full library of guides, webinars, and case studies across the site.
A practical, step-by-step guide to building and maintaining continuity plans across a higher education institution.
Read ebookHow CSU Monterey Bay moved from outdated, disconnected plans toward a living, institution-wide continuity program with Kuali Ready.
Read case studyA look at where business continuity planning in higher education is headed, and how institutions are adapting.
Watch WebinarSee how Kuali Ready helps your institution build, maintain, and manage continuity plans across campus.
