Kuali Student Success

Proven student impact

Results that help students keep moving forward.

From clearer degree planning to stronger participation in advising and campus programs, institutions use Kuali to improve the moments that shape student progress.

318%

Growth in degree conferrals since 2014

While enrollment grew 192%, Louisiana State University of Alexandria's degree conferrals grew 318%.

Degree Audit & Planning customer outcome

52%

More advising appointments completed

Utah’s first-year advising program saw 52% more appointments completed after adding texting with Penji.

Kuali Reach customer outcome

40%

Higher event attendance

UGA’s “Welcome UGA” program increased event attendance after using bulk texting with Reach (formerly Penji) Pathways.

Kuali Reach customer outcome

HELP EVERY STUDENT STAY ON THEIR PATH

Remove the barriers that cause students to lose momentum.

Students can lose momentum when the path ahead is unclear, important steps are missed, or support is difficult to find. Helping them stay on track requires clear academic direction and easier access to the people and resources available across campus.

Academic Clarity

Students need to know what comes next.

Degree requirements, transfer credit, course choices, and changing academic plans can make the path to graduation difficult to understand.

Timely Guidance

Important moments are easy to miss.

Registration, advising, academic milestones, and other key moments can quickly become barriers when students do not know when or how to act.

Access to Support

Finding help should not be another hurdle.

Advising, tutoring, coaching, orientation, and other resources may exist across campus, but students still need an easy way to discover and access them.

Campus Coordination

Student success spans more than one team.

Advisors, registrars, learning centers, coaches, and student success teams all contribute to progress, often through different processes and experiences.

ONE STUDENT SUCCESS STRATEGY

A clear academic path. Support when it matters.

Helping students stay on track requires both clarity and support. Kuali Degree Audit & Planning helps students understand where they stand and what comes next. Kuali Reach (Formerly Penji) helps institutions make advising, tutoring, coaching, orientation, and other student services easier to access and manage.

Kuali Degree Audit & Planning

Give every student a clearer path to graduation.

Help students understand their academic progress and make informed decisions about what comes next, while giving advisors and registrars greater visibility into degree requirements and student plans.

Kuali Degree Audit and Planning student academic planning experience

See completed coursework and remaining degree requirements.

Build semester-by-semester academic plans.

Explore what-if scenarios and alternative academic paths.

Give advisors and registrars clearer insight into student progress.

Best for: Students, advisors, registrars, and academic planning teams.

Kuali Reach (Formerly Penji)

Make student support easier to access and deliver.

Help students connect with advising, tutoring, coaching, orientation, and other campus services while giving support teams the tools to manage appointments, programs, communications, and engagement.

Kuali Reach student support scheduling and engagement experience

Schedule advising, tutoring, and coaching appointments.

Manage drop-ins, group sessions, workshops, and events.

Deliver targeted email and text communications.

Track attendance, participation, service demand, and engagement.

Best for: Advising, tutoring, learning centers, coaching, orientation, and student success teams.

See how Degree Audit & Planning and Kuali Reach can support your institution’s student success priorities.

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Built for the teams supporting students

Help every team make student support more effective.

Student progress touches many parts of campus. Kuali Degree Audit & Planning and Kuali Reach (Formerly Penji) help advisors, registrars, learning centers, and student success teams improve the moments they are responsible for.

Advisors

Make advising more meaningful.

Spend less time piecing together degree progress and more time helping students understand their options, make decisions, and plan what comes next.

Learning Centers

Help more students use the support you offer.

Make tutoring and academic support easier to discover while simplifying appointments, drop-ins, group sessions, check-ins, and staff availability.

Student Success Teams

Reach students with more purpose.

Coordinate outreach, promote campus resources, support important student moments, and better understand participation across programs and services.

Registrar’s Office

Bring more confidence to degree progress.

Maintain degree requirements, support approved academic pathways, reduce routine questions, and give students and advisors greater clarity around graduation progress.

What students experience

A clearer path, fewer barriers, and easier access to the people and resources that can help them keep moving forward.

Kuali Degree Audit and Planning academic progress and planning experience

UNDERSTAND

Degree progress

PLAN

Future terms

GUIDE

Advising decisions

Academic planning that moves with the student

Turn degree progress into a clear plan forward.

Kuali Degree Audit & Planning gives students, advisors, and registrars a clearer view of academic progress and what comes next. Students can understand remaining requirements, explore different academic paths, and build plans with greater confidence.

Understand progress. See completed coursework, remaining requirements, transfer credit, and where each student stands on the path to graduation.

Explore what comes next. Build semester-by-semester plans and use what-if scenarios to understand how different choices may shape an academic path.

Guide with confidence. Give advisors and registrars clearer information for academic planning conversations and graduation decisions.

Proactive student engagement

Turn outreach into a clear next step.

Kuali Reach (Formerly Penji) helps student success teams deliver targeted communications and make it easier for students to act—whether that means scheduling an advising appointment, finding a tutor, joining a workshop, or connecting with another campus resource.

Communicate with purpose. Deliver relevant email and text outreach around the moments that matter to your institution.

Connect students with support. Make advising, tutoring, coaching, and other services easier to access.

Understand engagement. Track appointments, attendance, participation, and student interactions across support services.

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COMMUNICATE

Email & text

CONNECT

Appointments & support

UNDERSTAND

Engagement & participation

Why Kuali

Built around the realities of higher education.

Student success is too important for rigid systems or tools adapted from another industry. Kuali is designed around the academic complexity, student support models, and campus teams that make higher education unique.

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Academic clarity that reflects your institution.

Support complex degree requirements, transfer credit, academic pathways, and planning without forcing your curriculum into rigid rules or workarounds.

Student support designed for how campuses operate.

Kuali Reach (Formerly Penji) supports advising, tutoring, coaching, learning centers, appointments, drop-ins, workshops, and other services without relying on a traditional CRM model.

Flexibility without another rigid system.

Adapt academic planning and student services around institutional needs, and add Kuali Build when unique forms, approvals, or workflows require more flexibility.

A partner that stays responsive.

Work with a team that understands higher education and stays engaged through implementation, support, and the evolving needs of your institution.

“Reach has given us the ability to streamline how quickly students can access resources. It allows us to meet students where they are, because they always have their phones.”

Robert Hamill

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | Bridgewater College

"The access to extensive data, the autonomy it gives to our students and tutors, and the automation of administrative tasks we used to do by hand is beyond compare to other software."

Sarah Jeffery

Senior Coordinator of Peer Education (PLaTO) | University of Georgia

"Reach allowed us to have students sign up more directly to groups but also allow us to restrict and curate [our] groups... where we don't have to go in and manually do it ourselves.”

Reed Colver

Associate Director and Learning Consultant Academic Resource Center | Duke University

"Students love it. They can play with different program options, and it instantly shows how their completed courses apply. It helps them make informed decisions and keeps them motivated to finish.”

Teresa Seymour

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Distance Learning | Louisiana State University Alexandria

"Kuali Advisor lets students play an active role in their education.”

Theresa Bosworth

Vice President of Student Services | Blue Mountain Community College

White-glove support

Support that moves at the speed of campus.

When issues come up, higher education teams need answers quickly. Kuali pairs purpose-built technology with a responsive customer success team that helps institutions keep work moving.

Urgent support

3 min

Average response time on urgent tickets.

High-priority tickets

15 min

Average response time on high-priority issues.

Customer satisfaction

99%

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.

Student success, built to move students forward

Kuali brings academic planning, advising, tutoring, and student support together in one platform, helping institutions guide every student with greater visibility, better coordination, and less manual work.

Customer Stories

Explore customer stories, operational insights, and strategies from institutions using Kuali to modernize workflows, governance, research administration, and campus operations.

Louisiana State University of Alexandria

Modernizing Advising as Degree Conferrals Grow 318%

Case Study

Blue Mountain Community College

Turning Hours-Long Degree Audits Into Minutes

Case Study

Colorado State University Global

Modernizing Degree Audits and Transfer Evaluation at Scale

Case Study

William & Mary

Growing Tutoring Appointments 18% While Saving 200+ Staff Hours

Case Study

University of Georgia

Increasing First-Year Event Attendance 41% with Student Outreach

Case Study

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Connecting More Students with the Academic Support They Need

Case Study

Degree Planning
& Student Engagement

Every student has a goal. Help them reach it.

Results that help students keep moving forward.

Growth in degree conferrals since 2014

More advising appointments completed

Higher event attendance

Remove the barriers that cause students to lose momentum.

Students need to know what comes next.

Important moments are easy to miss.

Finding help should not be another hurdle.

Student success spans more than one team.

Built with higher ed. Trusted by higher ed.

A clear academic path. Support when it matters.

Give every student a clearer path to graduation.

Make student support easier to access and deliver.

Help every team make student support more effective.

Make advising more meaningful.

Help more students use the support you offer.

Reach students with more purpose.

Bring more confidence to degree progress.

Turn degree progress into a clear plan forward.

Turn outreach into a clear next step.

Built around the realities of higher education.

Academic clarity that reflects your institution.

Student support designed for how campuses operate.

Flexibility without another rigid system.

A partner that stays responsive.

“Reach has given us the ability to streamline how quickly students can access resources. It allows us to meet students where they are, because they always have their phones.”

"The access to extensive data, the autonomy it gives to our students and tutors, and the automation of administrative tasks we used to do by hand is beyond compare to other software."

"Reach allowed us to have students sign up more directly to groups but also allow us to restrict and curate [our] groups... where we don't have to go in and manually do it ourselves.”

"Students love it. They can play with different program options, and it instantly shows how their completed courses apply. It helps them make informed decisions and keeps them motivated to finish.”

"Kuali Advisor lets students play an active role in their education.”

Support that moves at the speed of campus.

3 min

15 min

99%

Student success, built to move students forward

Customer Stories

Degree Planning & Student Engagement

Every student has a goal. Help them reach it.

Results that help students keep moving forward.

Growth in degree conferrals since 2014

More advising appointments completed

Higher event attendance

Remove the barriers that cause students to lose momentum.

Students need to know what comes next.

Important moments are easy to miss.

Finding help should not be another hurdle.

Student success spans more than one team.

Built with higher ed. Trusted by higher ed.

A clear academic path. Support when it matters.

Give every student a clearer path to graduation.

Make student support easier to access and deliver.

Help every team make student support more effective.

Make advising more meaningful.

Help more students use the support you offer.

Reach students with more purpose.

Bring more confidence to degree progress.

Turn degree progress into a clear plan forward.

Turn outreach into a clear next step.

Built around the realities of higher education.

Academic clarity that reflects your institution.

Student support designed for how campuses operate.

Flexibility without another rigid system.

A partner that stays responsive.

“Reach has given us the ability to streamline how quickly students can access resources. It allows us to meet students where they are, because they always have their phones.”

"The access to extensive data, the autonomy it gives to our students and tutors, and the automation of administrative tasks we used to do by hand is beyond compare to other software."

"Reach allowed us to have students sign up more directly to groups but also allow us to restrict and curate [our] groups... where we don't have to go in and manually do it ourselves.”

"Students love it. They can play with different program options, and it instantly shows how their completed courses apply. It helps them make informed decisions and keeps them motivated to finish.”

"Kuali Advisor lets students play an active role in their education.”

Support that moves at the speed of campus.

3 min

15 min

99%

Student success, built to move students forward

Customer Stories

Degree Planning
& Student Engagement