Case Study: Alamo Colleges achieves 230% increase in course completions and $100K savings with Cornerstone OnDemand

Building a Strategic Talent Management Program

Alamo Community College District, which serves more than 64,000 students across five institutions in Texas, faced a growing talent challenge: retaining and developing top faculty and staff. The district relied on eight disparate talent systems and an unusable LMS (only ~12% course registration), leading to low professional development and compliance completion rates and no clear visibility into training, performance, or succession planning.

Alamo Colleges implemented the Ellucian Talent Management Suite powered by Cornerstone OnDemand to unify recruiting, learning, performance and succession data. The platform enabled cross‑referencing of internal candidates, boosted compliance (2,830 employees completed harassment training; compliance cases down 35%), increased registrations by 146% and completions by 230%, saved $100,000 in one year on content, and gave leaders the visibility needed for strategic workforce planning.

Alamo Colleges

Linda Boyer-Owens

Associate Vice Chancellor, HR and Organizational Development