Case Study: CAPCSD achieves increased program participation and advances diversity-focused admissions with Liaison's CSDCAS

Capcsd Grows a Community With CSDCAS™

CAPCSD (the Council of Academic Programs in Communications Sciences and Disorders) faced the challenge of growing participation in its centralized admissions portal and using that platform to help programs meet enrollment, diversity, and holistic-admissions goals. The portal, CSDCAS™, is powered by Liaison, and CAPCSD needed a focused strategy and outreach to recruit more programs, improve applicant access, and generate actionable admissions data.

Using Liaison’s CSDCAS™, CAPCSD created a dedicated Director role and relied on peer-to-peer recruiting, advisory-committee outreach, and CSDCAS data to identify application patterns and target support (for example, outreach to underrepresented applicants who start later). As a result, participation grew to over 65% of eligible programs (177 speech‑language pathology and 51 audiology programs), CAPCSD published its first applicant data report with strong positive feedback, and member engagement increased markedly (18 applicants for three advisory-board spots), demonstrating measurable gains in recruitment and community-building with Liaison’s platform.

CAPCSD

Megan Woods

Director of Centralized Admissions