It comes as no surprise that no college or university is the same as the next.  Institutions of higher education are as diverse as the students who attend them.  From small, community focused colleges to large, globally recognized universities, institutions of all shapes and sizes play a specific – not to mention vital – role in higher education.

But these institutions do not just vary by location, demographics and degrees offered they also vary by institutional mission and purpose.  Colleges and universities have institutional “personalities” that set each other apart from the crowd.  While higher education is the goal of all, the road to that goal is unique.

Amidst a range of differences, what can over 450 higher education institutions have in common these days?  What common thread can lie between such diverse institutions as the State University of New York at Oswego, Dartmouth College or Muskegon Community College?

The answer is simple: a web content management system designed specifically to meet the needs of colleges and universities across the nation.

Colleges and universities of vastly different persuasions across the country have proven OmniUpdate to be the common denominator in web content management for higher education.  Just a few success stories include the following:

State University of New York at Oswego:  In a joint effort site redesign between the Public Affairs and IT departments, SUNY Oswego knew that simply redesigning the web site was only a short-term fix if they did not support the redesign with a web content management system.

Utah Valley State College:  UVSC was able to achieve vast participation by incorporating OmniUpdate as the college’s web content management system.  With close to 76,000 web pages and many content contributors, OmniUpdate was the ideal solution to maintain the institutional site.

Dartmouth College:  Dartmouth reached a point where the web production staff could no longer take on any more work without distributed publishing.  Web content management was a must and OmniUpdate was the solution.

Pepperdine University:  Pepperdine incorporated web content management during their web unification project to eliminate a fractured web landscape.  OmniUpdate allowed Pepperdine’s five colleges to streamline their model for web publishing.

Mills College:  After investing in a web site redesign, Mills – a small, private, all-woman’s college – understood the important role the web site plays in the recruitment process and invested in the OmniUpdate system to support their new site.

Oxnard College:  Oxnard is a public, two-year institution with over 8,000 students in Southern California that utilized both OmniUpdate Campus and OmniUpdate Educate to receive and after receiving their regional accreditation.

Muskegon Community College:  Muskegon has a very “people-orientated” web site that demanded and “people friendly” web content management system.  That system was OmniUpdate.

The conclusion is apparent.  Despite the many differences between individual colleges and universities, success with a service like OmniUpdate that is built for higher education can be found in higher education from Massachusetts to California.