Central Bible College

Central Bible College Enhances Its Community Experience and Increases Data Integrity with a Suite of Blackbaud Products

The Challenge

Central Bible College had a combination of a DOS-based system and a .NET-based homegrown system. On the finance side, the college was paying to share a connection with Oracle that limited the way the college used account numbers making it difficult to track new projects. Additionally, the college had been informed the Oracle fund accounting solution was scheduled to be decommissioned. Its admissions information and process was on yet another system. And it used Dreamweaver to manage and maintain its website.

The Solution

Central Bible College adapted some very important principles and philosophies after realizing its situation. The school realized that its systems were in such a state that they were unreliable. Data integrity was suffering —ultimately, causing the experiences of its key constituencies to suffer. CBC realized that the effort to clean up its existing data would require far more effort than that required to switch all products to a new provider.

The College needed a single system that would help to enhance the operations and experiences of its entire community: students, faculty, teachers, and alumni. And to help it do this Central Bible College selected a suite of Blackbaud products including The Raiser’s Edge, The Financial Edge, The Education Edge, Blackbaud NetCommunity, Faculty Access for the Web, NetClassroom, and Online Campus Community.

The Results

• Moved registration process from 2-4 hours to 45 minutes and from physical lines to online.
• Increased the accuracy of student records.
• Website and department pages are kept fresh and up-to-date because Online Campus Community™ empowers each department to manage and maintain its website.
• With one repository for data, The Raiser’s Edge®, data is now more accurate.
• Centralized data has eliminated data silos, and quality business procedures have eliminated departmental silos.
• Saved professors time by enabling them to input grades remotely.
• Provided a fund accounting system that keeps up with the institutions ever changing needs for account and project structure, while providing quality reporting and Business Intelligent Dashboards.
• Admissions department equipped to effectively target prospects and inquiries while tracking communications on a large scale.
  Increased efficiency and accuracy in tracking gift records and contributions.
• Authorized system users are able to run their own queries, reports, and exports, eliminating the IT bottleneck, and providing critical information to departments for more quick and accurate assess Business Intelligence.
• Capitol Campaigns can be strategized with great detail, tracking and precision.
• Provide students with unprecedented access to their own information such as Grades, Degree Audit, Attendance, Transcripts, and Billing Statements.
• Increased enrollment 20 percent by creating the ability to add colleges into the system.
• Opened 9 satellite campuses/colleges, an increase of 900 percent