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Colleges and Universities

From admissions, student services and academic departments to buildings and grounds, institutional development and the provost’s office, Laserfiche solutions simplify information sharing and increase efficiency enterprise-wide—helping you cost-effectively meet the challenge of academic recordkeeping.

  • Improve administrative efficiency enterprise-wide
  • Maximize space available for faculty offices and classrooms
  • Enhance student services

Laserfiche is ideally suited to a higher education enterprise environment. It’s easy to install, it’s scalable and it’s easy to support—so it continues to meet our needs, even as they change.

— University of Southern California

In the increasingly competitive world of higher education, students, parents and faculty are searching for more responsive service. With Laserfiche, you improve services from admission and hiring to graduation and beyond, raising retention and strengthening loyalty.

Universities with multiple locations or a large number of users will appreciate the flexibility of Laserfiche Rio enterprise content management, a turnkey solution that meets even the most demanding enterprise requirements.


Laserfiche for Colleges


Physical document storage consumes valuable office and classroom space, and recreating lost and misfiled documents costs time—and money. Laserfiche gives you the tools you need to combat the inefficiency and expense of paper storage, while scaling to meet the needs of colleges and universities of all sizes, from private institutions to state-wide university systems with multiple campuses.

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Manage Faculty Records

Managing faculty personnel records is a complex process that consumes staff time. Using Laserfiche, you streamline records management, freeing staff to spend time on other, more productive activities.

  • Implement faculty career management, by keeping faculty personnel files current and active even after retirement.
  • Instantly fulfill data-driven, specialized queries of faculty records.
  • Use custom templates to instantly update faculty status from on sabbatical to active.
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Safeguard Student Records

Administering records access under FERPA consumes staff time. Laserfiche’s granular security system helps you design and implement a security policy that works within your existing environment, so you protect student confidentiality without impacting staff’s daily business processes.

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Simplify the Financial Aid Process

Financial aid staff spend hours sorting, routing and filing paper financial aid forms—and service suffers as a result. With Laserfiche, you automate repetitive document-based business processes, speeding financial aid disbursement and creating more satisfied students.

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Automate Work Processes Campus-Wide

With Laserfiche, you support the applications you already use to manage student records, accounting and resource planning.

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Customer Stories

  • Bugged by Inefficiency
    Texas A&M University’s Department of Entomology exterminates paper-based processes – and realizes a rapid ROI - with Laserfiche
  • The Cure for Paperwork Headaches
    Laserfiche saves the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center time and money
  • Island in the Stream
    Texas A&M University Corpus Christi uses Laserfiche to streamline BPP/FAMIS report distribution – saving time and money along the way
  • The Prescription for Record-Keeping Headaches
    The Dalhousie University Medical School finds a Laserfiche system is an improvement over custom databases and spreadsheets
  • Gold Standard
    USC’s Office of the Provost inspires enterprise-wide records management campus-wide

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Laserfiche Blogs

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    Empower your User Group to share what they know, learn what they want, and provide access to information to meet their needs.
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    Using the Wizard made setting up Real Time Look-Up in Quick Fields 8 extremely easy.
  • News from the WMCA Annual Convention
    I recently had the luxury of attending the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association Annual Convention in Milwaukee on behalf of Laserfiche. In short, the event can be typified by the State’s new slogan “Live Like You Mean It.” Don’t let the peaceful, rolling hills of this pristine State fool you. These municipalities mean business! I witnessed nearly [...]
  • Ghana Training Recap
    The beauty of Ghana lies in its people. I was fortunate to learn this lesson first-hand from Joseph Amoh-Anti and the Josanti team as the Laserfiche Institute took its longest “road” trip yet, to West Africa. Upon landing in the capitol city of Accra, I was immediately aware of the fact that I had arrived in [...]

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