The University of Arkansas System is partnering with Workday to deploy the Workday Student solution at seven of the system’s campuses. The current deployment marks the first phase of implementation of Workday Student, with other institutions set to be added to the platform by Spring 2025.
As part of the implementation phase, University of Arkansas System will provide students, faculty, and staff with a unified experience to manage academics, employment, finances, payroll, time tracking, and more.
“To keep pace with the speed of change, it is critical that we have a modernized system that can support and scale with the evolving needs of our students, faculty, and staff,” said Steven Fulkerson, CIO of  University of Arkansas System.
“Workday is an integral partner in our digital transformation journey and with Workday Student, we’re extending the value of the platform even further by making it easier for students to build class schedules, manage financial aid, view attendance, and more while empowering our schools to manage the academic experience and support student success,” he said.
The implementation will help the university system consolidate more than 30 disparate systems of participating institutions across finance, HR, and operations into one cloud-based platform. The new platform will help member institutions manage registration, absences, curriculum, talent and staffing needs, changes in enrollment numbers, supplier costs, and expenses.
Workday is also helping the University of Arkansas System adopt common course numbering to develop a comprehensive index of subject codes and course numbers for 21,000 offerings across all system schools. Workday will help ensure students can easily see if they are taking the right courses to transfer between schools in the system.
Students will have self-service capabilities to register for courses, track work study hours, manage financial aid, view grades, and request advising appointments, and will be able to do all of that on a mobile device.
