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Unparalleled Impact in Higher Ed

Digital Growth in Higher Education

Universities face unique challenges—and tremendous opportunities—in leveraging digital tools to fulfill their educational missions. We're an experienced partner who can help you seize the moment to unlock your institution's full potential.

How JAKALA meets unique university needs

Universities face unique challenges - and tremendous opportunities - when using digital tools to achieve their mission. We're an experienced partner who can help you remove roadblocks to achieving your institution's full potential.

  • 01

    Enable growth in revenue-generating units

    Use proven tools and tactics, from UX best practices to AI-enabled platforms, to help increase engagement among prospective students, donors, alumni and other key audiences  

  • 02

    Reduce costs & increase efficiency

    Streamline digital/web operations by updating technology, reducing technical debt, eliminating duplicative tools, creating scalable design systems, establishing standardized governance and workflow processes, and enabling adoption support

  • 03

    Ensure design coherence, consistency and accessibility

    Design, build and deploy flexible yet consistent design systems that ensure accessibility and brand compliance while still offering autonomy to content editors across university units

  • 04

    Migrate and manage content

    Build structured content models to improve UX and SEO, enable easier site creation and migration, and set parameters for future content creation

  • 05

    We align your stakeholders

    A strategic, people-first approach that ensures stakeholder voices are heard and their individual priorities are mapped to our projects - without derailing the larger institutional objectives

Your university's digital platform is more than just a website

Extension

It's an extension of your institution to all those you serve

Versatility

It serves an ever-growing variety of needs for a variety of audiences

Core

It should be the core of your constituencies' online experience with you

But managing it effectively across every campus unit is a massive challenge.

We can help.

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Migrating 650+ sites to save time, money, & effort for years to come.

Like many higher ed institutions, Princeton is just one brand, but owns thousands of individual sites. The need: A consistent experience and unified brand from site to site to satisfy and interact with their audiences across various touchpoints.

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Branding Content Across 40+ Sub-sites

40+ sub-sites lacking a unified look and feel creating content chaos. Need: efficiently govern content, comply with university guidelines, make the sites accessible and secure, and continuously improve without alienating audiences. 

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Simplifying a Critical Migration

A seamless upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, reducing costs and inefficiencies, improving security and accessibility, and providing a vastly improved user experience.

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Empowering institutions of all sizes to:

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    Arm content teams with the tools and training they need to succeed

    Your tech stack is only as good as your knowledge of how to use it. By partnering with us, you’ll have a trusted advisor with industry-leading expertise to help you get the most out of your investment.

     

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    Streamline Content Development & Impact

    Enhance publishing processes and governance workflows to ensure content accessibility, accuracy, consistency, and most importantly, impact.

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    Gain Full Oversight and Understanding

    Increase confidence of strategic decision-making informed by holistic data-driven insights, ensuring optimized impact of strategies and efficient use of resources.

Former Higher Ed Leaders

Current JAKALA Digital Experts

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Mandee Englert
Expert Higher Ed Digital Strategist

Mandee joined the JAKALA team in 2022 after six years serving as Director of Digital Strategy at Penn State University. She is one of our most popular and prolific speakers.

Mandee focuses on website strategy and brings her expertise in website analytics, user experience research, redesign road-mapping, content optimization, and documentation and training to every project.

During her tenure at Penn State, Mandee played a key role in leading major redesigns: the university's root website psu.edu, the news website, and the 20 commonwealth campus websites. 

Chaney Kourouniotis
Higher Ed Digital Marketing and Comms Expert

Chaney has run marketing and communications teams at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley; prior to that, she co-founded a boutique consulting agency, World Education Group, that assisted smaller universities with international student recruitment. Before joining JAKALA, she served as the Director of Marketing and Customer Experience for Rick Steves' Europe.

A graduate of Stanford and Georgetown, she has worked in and around academia for most of her career; in her current role as Director of Client Success at JAKALA, she supports Ivy+ and major state institutions with large-scale web and digital projects.

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Higher Ed Expert Insights

How Higher Ed Can Improve Analytics Governance with GA4

We break down how partnering with internal teams and creating university-wide alignment can help establish clear guidelines on how data is managed and utilized.

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How to Build a University Website That Actually Works

Universities have lots of stakeholders with diverse wants and needs. Learn how it's possible to build a platform that's easy to use, makes your teams and leaders happy, and supports your mission.

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JAKALA Wins 3 Acquia Engage Awards, One Honoring Work with Princeton

After much anticipation, we’re thrilled to announce that three JAKALA clients are 2023 Acquia Engage award winners for our work together. Princeton WDS, Hologic, and Gerflor each won an award from a different category.

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“"I'm grateful for everyone on the [JAKALA] team. In the midst of an intense rebuild, it was clear they were working as hard as us and wanted it to succeed as much as we did. Thank you!"

 

Amy McMillen
Sr. AVP Marketing, IES Abroad

 

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