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Category: Higher Ed

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal selects Redpath for 2022 Best Places to Work

A strong and diverse culture where team members feel valued and are happy with the company they work for has a direct correlation to their clients experience. The Tampa Bay Business Journal found that, “Companies with happy employees outperform the competition by 20%.”  As a testament to the culture and our people, Redpath Consulting Group is honored to be recognized by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of their 2022 Best Places to Work! "Here at Redpath we really focus on valuing the differences between our team members and clients and how each of us brings ...

Redpath Consulting Group — Our Small Business Story

Established in 2008 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Redpath Consulting Group was created with the desire to create a Silicon Valley like company in the midwest with the energy and culture for attracting an innovative and diverse team of people that are interested in a unique approach to delivering professional services. Co-founders, Paul Selway and James Smale, wanted to create a company with a people-first approach that would drive an unstoppable force in providing extraordinary services within the communities we serve. We like to refer to this as our WOW factor. In the years since Redpath ...

7 Reasons to Work With a Small Business

There’s a saying you’ve likely heard many times: bigger is better. But is it really true? If you get an ice cream cone that is four times what you actually want or need, is that truly better? Regardless of the item, if you’re getting more and possibly spending more on anything, is bigger really better? Perhaps quality is better than quantity? The same holds true when you’re selecting a business partner. As we celebrate #SmallBusinessWeek this week, here are seven reasons to consider working with a small business, like Redpath Consulting Group: # 1 — Emphasis on Transformative Innovation ...

Simplify your application review process with Admissions Connect – Part 2

Let reviewers focus on applicants, not technology In part 1 of our Admissions Connect blog series, you learned about the features of Admissions Connect that can improve the applicant experience at your college or university, including an applicant portal, dynamic checklists, chatbots, and more. Now let’s discuss how Admissions Connect can simplify the experience for your reviewers, so they can focus less on technology inefficiencies and more on admitting the right applicants. Here are three Admissions Connect features that can simplify the reviewer experience: #1 — Single Page Application Reader Think about your school’s current application review process: Does it ...

10 Ways to Elevate Your Fundraising

Digital fundraising is essential to success. But making it as easy as possible for people to support your organization isn’t necessarily easy—for them or for your staff. Taking donations over the phone, manually entering payments, or processing refunds and recurring donations can all be time-consuming tasks. Today’s donors have come to expect ease of use when giving online, whether that’s mobile donation forms, refunds or tax receipts on request. They also want to designate their giving to the programs they want to support. Yet many organizations simply lack the technology and staff to accommodate those donor expectations.   Meet Elevate, an end-to-end, ...

Improve your admissions process with Admissions Connect — Part 1

Your applicants deserve a better experience Now more than ever, it’s imperative for your college or university to eliminate barriers to the application process and foster a positive applicant experience. This means ensuring that your application requirements are clear, your application tool is accessible, and applicants get their questions answered quickly. Your solution? Salesforce’s newest Education Cloud product: Admissions Connect. Built on the Education Data Architecture, Admissions Connect is designed to use your Salesforce data to foster applicant engagement with admissions staff and make the application process easier for prospective students. Here are four Admissions Connect features that can ...

Set yourself up for Education Cloud’s Digital Transformation – Part 2 of 2

In the first of this two-part series, we explored a couple of key objectives the team at your university should accomplish in order to make the most of Salesforce’s Education Cloud. Catch up on Part 1 to learn how to incorporate your organization's vision, value proposition and team capabilities into your Education Cloud implementation approach. Let's finish the task by looking at the final two objectives that will be integral to your Education Cloud success. Objective 3: Identify Your Integration Strategy To get the full 360-degree view of your students you need to be prepared for integration between Salesforce and ...

Set yourself up for Education Cloud’s Digital Transformation – Part 1 of 2

The benefits of Salesforce’s Education Cloud for your higher education institution can be considerable. Achieving them, however, isn’t as simple as implementing the Education Data Architecture (EDA) and moving forward. Whether you're already on your way down your Education Cloud path and you're looking to improve or you're just getting started, consider this blog your springboard to maximizing the solution's capacity for your institution. You can make adjustments within your organization to make sure your existing — or newly implemented — Education Cloud implementation is operating as effectively as possible by focusing on a few key objectives. In this ...

7 Steps to Getting the Most From the 2021 Salesforce Education Summit

Salesforce’s first-ever Education Summit (formerly Higher Education Summit) in 2012 was my first professional conference in my career. The presentations showed me what was possible on the Salesforce platform and I learned how collaborative the Higher Ed industry is while meeting peers between sessions. In 2020, we had to adjust to virtual conferences and we all learned that it takes a different approach from an in-person event to fully benefit from the content. Now we sit in front of our screens all day and have mastered the art of jumping between virtual meetings, chats, webinars - and for some ...

Driving Research & Innovation with Salesforce

The University at Buffalo Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships (BEP) office connects academia, industry, and entrepreneurs to collaborate on R&D, commercialize new technology and provide access to talent pipelines. The team builds public-private partnerships that support new discoveries and market opportunities that positively impact society. THE SUCCESS SYNOPSIS  The University at Buffalo’s BEP team members have embraced the new Salesforce org and it has become part of day-to-day operations. Adoption is growing each day as they see the focus shift from training and population of data to managing programs, tracking activities, and reporting.  BEP’s team of users has increased from 20 ...