Case Study: Morton College achieves 7% enrollment growth and a full online transformation with Anthology (Blackboard Learn Ultra)

The Rise of One of the Most Innovative Community Colleges in the Country

Morton College, a two-year public institution in Cicero, Illinois serving about 5,400 students (84% Hispanic), needed to rapidly modernize its online learning experience to stay competitive and better serve many first-generation learners. The college partnered with Anthology to implement Blackboard Learn Ultra as its LMS, seeking a clean, fast, mobile-native platform that reflected its commitment to innovation and could scale during the pandemic-driven shift to online instruction.

Anthology delivered Blackboard Learn Ultra to provide a consistent, responsive learning interface across devices and strong vendor support, helping Morton move from 5% of courses online in 2019 to 100% in 2020. The platform’s speed and accessibility supported first-generation and mobile-first students, contributed to faculty adoption, and coincided with measurable business impact: Morton reported about a 7% enrollment increase for the fall term.

Morton College

Nick Hryhorczuk

Academic Director of Online Learning