Students change majors, miss appointments, and don't always know where to turn for help. Kuali connects advising, degree planning, and proactive outreach on one platform, so every student understands their path and stays engaged from enrollment through graduation.
Academic advisors help students navigate degree requirements. Tutors reinforce learning. Success coaches remove barriers. Orientation teams help students get started. Each interaction matters, but when these efforts aren't connected, students lose momentum: appointments go missed, emails go unread, and support goes unused. Helping students graduate takes more than good intentions. It takes giving every student a clear path and making it easy to connect with support along the way.
TODAY
Appointments are missed
Emails go unread
Students register for courses that don't advance their degree
Support is available, but students never receive it
No shared view of student progress
Disconnected point solutions
WITH KUALI
Instant, rules-driven degree audits
Students see their own path to completion
One place to schedule advising, tutoring, and coaching
Personalized outreach at the moments that matter
Visibility into who's engaged and who needs follow-up
Students don't think about software. They want to know where they stand, what to do next, and who can help. Kuali helps institutions answer those questions throughout the student journey.
Help students and advisors understand exactly where they stand, what requirements remain, and the fastest path toward graduation.
Make it easy for students to schedule advising appointments, connect with tutors and coaches, and access the services designed to help them succeed.
Deliver personalized email and text communications that encourage students to take action at the moments that matter most.
Give advisors and student success leaders better visibility so they can identify challenges earlier, intervene proactively, and help more students stay on track.
The most valuable part of advising isn't explaining degree requirements. It's helping students make good decisions. When students arrive already understanding their academic progress, and advisors have a complete picture of their journey, conversations become more meaningful and more focused on helping students succeed.
Teresa Seymour — Assistant Vice Chancellor of Distance Learning, LSU Alexandria
From the first advising conversation to graduation, every step, plan, connection, and follow-up, lives on Kuali.
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Identify Students
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Connect to Advising,
Tutoring & Coaching
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Graduation
Every meaningful advising conversation starts with accurate information. Kuali Degree Audit & Planning gives students and advisors a shared, real-time view of academic progress. Unlike traditional batch-based tools, its rules-driven degree audit keeps requirements, remaining coursework, transfer credit, and alternative pathways always up to date.
Knowing a student needs help is only the beginning. Kuali Reach (formerly Penji) helps institutions coordinate advising, tutoring, coaching, orientation, and student support services through one mobile-first experience, so students can find support and advisors gain visibility into engagement across departments.
One email doesn't change student behavior. The right message, delivered to the right student at the right time, can. Kuali Reach (formerly Penji) helps institutions proactively engage students through personalized email, app notifications, and SMS text campaigns targeted using data from your Student Information System.
Instead of broadcasting the same message to everyone, institutions can reach the students who need support most, when they're most likely to benefit from it.
Student success isn't measured by how many emails were sent. It's measured by what students actually do. Kuali Reach (formerly Penji) helps institutions understand whether outreach leads to meaningful engagement.
See who scheduled appointments and track who attended
Measure participation in advising, tutoring, coaching, orientation, and campus events
Identify which outreach campaigns drive engagement, and which students need follow-up
Bring academic progress and student engagement together so advisors can understand each student’s path, identify where support is needed, and take action.
Academic progress
See completed requirements, remaining requirements, transfer credits, and each student’s path toward graduation.
Advising & engagement
See appointments, outreach, events, and student engagement to understand where students are connecting—and where they may need support.
Insights & action
Use academic and engagement data to identify needs, guide conversations, and help students keep moving toward graduation.
From research universities to community colleges, hundreds of institutions rely on Kuali for the operations they can't afford to get wrong.
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“The access to extensive data, the autonomy it gives our students, coaches, tutors, and advisors, and the automation of administrative tasks we once did by hand are beyond compare.”
Senior Coordinator of Peer Education, University of Georgia
“Kuali combines a scalable platform with a responsive, collaborative team that truly understands higher education.”
Senior Deputy University Registrar, Vanderbilt University
"It gave students a really nice, prescriptive audit to see what courses they still needed to take and what transferred in."
University Registrar, CSU Global
After modernizing advising on Kuali, LSUA grew degree conferrals 318% since 2014 while enrollment grew 192%, giving students a clear, self-service path to graduation.
Read the case study ->How accurate audits and connected advising move students through faster, with fewer excess credits and fewer graduation-day surprises.
Read the white paper ->Explore the platform capabilities built for advising and student success teams.
Give students and advisors a clear view of progress, requirements, and the path to graduation.
Explore Degree Audit & Planning ->
Make it easier for students to find, schedule, and engage with the support they need along the way.
Explore Kuali Reach ->Book a walkthrough, and we’ll show you what your institution’s operations look like when they work together, with AI running inside the systems your teams already trust.
