Case Study: Connecticut State Colleges and Universities achieves unified scheduling and improved space utilization with Accruent EMS

How as Connecticut State Colleges & Universities merged into a single university system, EMS provided a single scheduling management solution

Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU), a system of 17 public institutions serving over 140,000 students, faced a patchwork of disparate, legacy scheduling tools after merging statewide. Room scheduling and event management were largely manual, error-prone and inefficient, leaving colleges struggling to manage space and meet pressure to “do more with less.”

CSCU implemented EMS as a single, flexible scheduling and event-management platform—supporting both centralized and distributed campus models and integrating with the student information system to automate scheduling. Rolled out system-wide, EMS improved data accuracy and reporting, enabled easy sharing of utilization data, reduced staffing needs, boosted team productivity, improved space utilization and increased event revenues.

Connecticut State Colleges and Universities

Joe McAuliffe

OIT Senior Director of Business Information Systems