Case Study: Illinois State University achieves consistent, high-quality website content and faster redesigns with GatherContent

How Illinois State used GatherContent to deliver high-quality content consistently, across multiple university website redesigns

Illinois State University, a top-100 public university with nearly 21,000 students, faced fragmented website redesign processes: content, design and development teams worked in silos, subject-matter experts struggled to write for the web, and content was tracked via scattered Word documents and slow approval cycles.

The university implemented GatherContent with CMS-mapped templates and a bespoke workflow, giving teams a visual, versioned space for content, metadata and approvals. This broke down silos, sped up reviews and turnarounds, ensured consistent, content-first pages across departments, and delivered higher-quality sites with fewer revisions.

Illinois State University

Charles Edamala

Chief Technology Officer