Congratulations to OIT’s Student Success Technology Team! Last week they won the “Excellence in Student Success” award at the 2023 Salesforce Education Summit for their work on Buff Portal Advising and related Student Success applications.
This award recognizes work that schools, colleges, universities, and departments do to technologically innovate and enhance a student's experience and sense of belonging utilizing the Salesforce platform. The voting process involves individuals from peer institutions both domestically and internationally.
Team members contributing to this recognition include Susan Ulrich, Laura Bonney, Kelly Stritzinger, Rebecca Lankford, Jessica Sharley, Stephanie Sullivan, Pam Willis-Tozier, Harika Bondalapati, Hari Badha, Siva Parvathi Donepudi, Lisa Carr, Christopher Littlefield, Jami Holmes, and Daniel Robert.
It was an honor for me to witness the excitement of the CU Boulder team at the ceremony, which extended beyond OIT. The joy in Susan’s reaction when the announcement was made, was clearly the culmination of years of work from the team. Congratulations to everyone who contributed, big and small, to this achievement! - Elizabeth Romero Fuerte, Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Technology and Student Success
Nomination Details
Launched in 2015, CU's enterprise org serves over 30 business units across campus featuring a powerful set of student success solutions. A custom faculty site has generated over 60,000 course alerts, providing critical early feedback to students and staff. Another tracks check-ins at over 40 advising and tutoring centers. And our advising application manages 7,000 appointments, 17,000 logged interactions, and 100,000 advisor emails each month creating a holistic view of each student's campus experience. The scalability of Salesforce has been key to our success. Our newest features include bulk SMS messaging and proactive outreach to highly targeted student populations helping our users continue to engage the right students at the right time!
