Ellucian AI award

Ellucian said Wednesday it won the 2026 Pinnacle Awards’ Platinum honor in the AI for Education category. (prnewswire.com) The Reston, Virginia, company sells software that colleges use to run core campus functions, from student records to finance and human resources. Ellucian said its artificial intelligence tools are built into that platform rather than sold as a separate product. (ellucian.com) The award site lists Ellucian as the Platinum winner for AI for Education in its 2026 artificial intelligence program. The program says it recognizes work in areas including innovation, enterprise transformation, industry impact, responsible artificial intelligence, and leadership. (pinnacle-award.com) In plain terms, this is the software layer colleges use to keep campuses running, and Ellucian is pitching artificial intelligence as a built-in helper for those systems. On its platform page, the company says the tools handle tasks such as workflow automation, analytics, transcript exchange, and personalized digital experiences for students, faculty, and staff. (ellucian.com) Ellucian said its current artificial intelligence portfolio includes assistants for forms, transcripts, writing, and document workflows. It also said the software supports advising, course planning and registration, credit transfer, scholarship matching, retention prediction, and fraud detection. (prnewswire.com) The company tied the award to a broader shift on campuses. In the same announcement, Ellucian said 66 percent of institutions now use artificial intelligence, up from 49 percent a year earlier, and 88 percent expect use to rise over the next two years. (prnewswire.com) Ellucian has been stacking up vendor recognition as it pushes that message. On April 1, 2026, it said Gartner named it a Leader in higher education student information system software as a service for the second straight year, and Ellucian said more than 2,600 institutions use at least one of its software as a service products. (prnewswire.com) That matters because student information systems are the databases and workflows that track admissions, enrollment, billing, aid, and academic progress. If artificial intelligence is embedded there, colleges are not testing chatbots on the side; they are changing how frontline administrative work gets done. (prnewswire.com) Ellucian is set to keep pressing the case next week. Its newsroom says Ellucian Live 2026 runs April 19 through April 22 in Denver, with artificial intelligence positioned as a centerpiece of the company’s conference agenda. (ellucian.com)