Case Study: SUNY Fredonia achieves 75% time savings and faster, more reliable websites with Pantheon

SUNY Fredonia Ensures its Websites Match its World-Class Reputation

SUNY Fredonia, a public university of about 4,000 students known for its School of Music and broad academic offerings, struggled with a legacy web platform that couldn’t keep up with campus growth. Its two-person web team managed a portfolio of 170 departmental sites plus a high-traffic student portal, but manual development, error-prone upgrades, and 24+ hour test environment spin-ups caused slowdowns, missed deadlines, and constant firefighting.

The college migrated its sites to the Pantheon WebOps platform, updated Drupal, and adopted Multidev, Dev‑Test‑Live, and Pantheon migration tools. The move enabled parallel development and reliable testing, cut site-management time by roughly 75% (spin-up times went from a day to about 10 minutes), and let the team rapidly roll out innovations like campus digital signage—freeing staff to focus on content, functionality, and student engagement.

SUNY Fredonia

Andrea Wasiura

Web Development Manager