The academic work that runs your institution has always lived in separate products, with email, spreadsheets, and PDFs filling the gaps. Kuali connects it on one platform, so curriculum, catalogs, degree audits, and everyday requests move together instead of in silos.
Most institutions manage curriculum, catalogs, syllabi, and degree audits in separate products, often from different vendors, and everything in between still runs on email, spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual handoffs. The result is disconnected processes, duplicate work, and academic changes that take longer than they should.
Kuali is the only one built as a single system with one data model, one workflow engine, one reporting engine, one permissions framework, and one audit trail, running across every office and department.
WHERE MOST ACADEMIC SYSTEMS STOP
KUALI ACADEMIC OPERATIONS
Move course and program proposals through governance to an approved catalog.
Publish an accurate, searchable catalog straight from approved curriculum.
Instant, rules-driven audits and what-if planning students can read.
Standardize required content while preserving faculty flexibility.
Route every change through your real committee and governance structure.
Build the department-specific forms, workflows, and approvals in between, no code.
AI built in to answer questions, generate workflows, and move work forward.
Extend the platform to automate the processes unique to your institution.
Every campus office runs critical processes that live outside traditional software. Most teams juggle them in email, spreadsheets, PDFs, and point solutions. Kuali changes that.
Explore Academic Operations modules ->
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Graduation Applications
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Program Requirement Exemptions
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Transcript Evaluation
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Credit Max Override Requests
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Program of Study Plan
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Test Score Submissions
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Program Pre-approval
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Grade Appeals
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Change of Major
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Course Withdrawal
And dozens more...
Whatever your office needs to manage, you can build it on the same platform.
For registrars and provosts, that shows up in three ways: curriculum and catalog move through governance cleanly, the everyday requests come off paper, and students stay on a clear path to completion.
Proposals follow your real committee path from department to provost, and approved changes flow straight to an accurate, published catalog. No re-keying, no version confusion.
Program changes, grade appeals, graduation applications, transcript evaluations. Scan the form, set who approves it, and it becomes a routed workflow your team changes itself.
Accurate degree audits and connected planning let students see what is left and advisors focus on students, turning the registrar’s accuracy into the provost’s completion rate.
Mike O’Connor — System Analytics Director, University Registrar’s Office, SNHU
Program change requests, graduation applications, grade appeals, transcript evaluations. The forms and approvals your office runs every week that never fit a bought system. Scan the form, say who approves it, and it becomes a routed digital workflow your team changes itself.
TODAY
Email chains and manual follow-up
Spreadsheets to track approvals
PDFs with no visibility
Shared drives and sticky notes
Homegrown databases
Disconnected point solutions
WITH KUALI
Connected workflows across the academic lifecycle
Visibility for every proposal, protocol, and disclosure
AI that helps you find answers and move work forward
Automated processes that reduce manual work
A single source of truth for the record
Build any other process your office needs
Simply ask what you need and Kuali AI builds it. More than an AI assistant, Kuali understands your work, answering questions, generating forms, creating workflows, and helping academic work move forward.
Explore Kuali’s full capabilities ->Your team can quickly create the forms, workflows, and applications the office runs, while IT keeps governance, security, and integrations across the institution.
Get requests off paper in an afternoon
Adjust the process yourself as policy changes
Track every request from submission to approval
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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“Kuali has completely transformed how we manage curriculum and catalog updates. The automation alone has saved us thousands of hours.”
Associate Registrar, University of New Mexico
“Kuali combines a scalable platform with a responsive, collaborative team that truly understands higher education.”
Senior Deputy University Registrar, Vanderbilt University
“Deploying multiple solutions across the Kuali platform has been a great experience”
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 ->A practical guide to moving curriculum, catalog, and approvals off paper and onto a connected platform, without disrupting the academic calendar.
Read the white paper ->Stay on top of academic operations with a clear view of curriculum changes, approvals, and outstanding work — all in one place.
Your work
See curriculum changes, approvals, and outstanding items that need your attention.
Process status
Understand where each curriculum change and student request stands in governance.
Reporting & insights
Access academic activity data to spot bottlenecks and make informed decisions.
"It has cut down the time to launch a catalog in half at least."
University Registrar, Colorado State University Global
"We used to have binders to manage our curriculum. We used people instead of integrations. If we didn't have Kuali, we'd be back in the Stone Age."
Associate Director ofAcademic Systems, Southern New Hampshire University
"Research was the first to adopt it. Then we brought it into Academic Affairs. Now it's expanding into Finance and Administration, the colleges are building forms, and even departments like Parking are using it."
Associate Provost, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Successful transformation goes beyond go-live. Kuali brings collaborative discovery, process optimization, change management, training, and dedicated customer success, so your office keeps getting more from the platform over time.
Onboarding and Change Management
Collaborative discovery and process optimization to get you live and adopted.
Training and Certifications
Role-based training and professional certifications for your team.
Dedicated Customer Success
A named team invested in your outcomes, not just your renewal.
Community
and Kuali Days
An active higher-education community and an annual user conference.
When issues come up during registration or catalog season, academic offices need answers quickly. Kuali pairs purpose-built technology with a responsive customer success team that helps institutions keep work moving.
URGENT SUPPORT
Average response time on urgent tickets.
High-priority tickets
Average response time on high-priority issues.
Customer satisfaction
Of customers who left feedback said they were satisfied with Kuali’s response.
Responsive by design
Kuali delivered 100% SLA achievement in 2024, helping institutions get the support they need without waiting days or weeks for answers.
Buy the capabilities you need, or start with a package and expand on the same platform.
A streamlined foundation for curriculum and catalog management.
The recommended starting point for a complete academic operations solution.
Combines academic operations with degree planning for a connected student success foundation.
A comprehensive advising ecosystem supporting student planning, engagement, and success.
For institutions standardizing on Kuali as their enterprise platform for workflow and process automation.
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.
