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Drupal for Higher Education

Bring programs, research, admissions, and campus services together in one accessible digital experience.

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BUILT FOR DISTRIBUTED TEAMS

Every School Runs Its Own Site

Let every school move faster without losing university identity.

Give every school control over its content while your central team protects the university’s brand, accessibility, and standards.

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What Your Teams Can Do

Multiple sites. One CMS.

Main site, schools, departments, and research centers on one manageable platform.

Faster Program Discovery

Guide prospective students from program discovery to the next admissions step.

Findable Faculty Expertise

Bring faculty profiles, publications, research, and teaching interests together in one place.

Multilingual By Default

Deliver consistent multilingual experiences across global campuses, including full support for right-to-left languages.

Atomic Design Systems

Give teams flexible, reusable components without sacrificing brand consistency.

Publishing Without Bottlenecks

Equip distributed teams with practical training, clear workflows, and reusable publishing tools.

CRM + SIS Integration

Build accessible experiences from the start instead of fixing barriers after launch.

Accessible Experiences

Build accessibility into every release instead of fixing barriers after launch.

Modernize Easily

Upgrade from SharePoint, ColdFusion, or older Drupal platforms in manageable phases.

AI Use Cases

AI in Higher Ed

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Help prospective students find their next step

Answer common questions and guide students toward relevant programs, requirements, and application information.

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Give students answers when they need them

Help students navigate financial aid, registration, and academic services with a clear path to a human advisor.

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Reach students in their preferred language

Accelerate translation across programs, admissions, and student services while your team approves what gets published.

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Make programs and expertise easier to find

Return useful answers from program catalogs, faculty profiles, and research publications.

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Be visible where students start researching

Help prospective students find accurate information about your programs through search engines and leading AI tools.

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Reduce repetitive student-service work

Automate routine checks and status updates across enrollment, registration, and student-service systems.

ATOMIC DESIGN

Built For Every Campus Audience

Every school and department. One system. Hundreds of publishers.

Atomic Component Library

Atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages composed and governed at scale.

Brand Consistency

Consistent typography, color, and spacing across schools, departments, and microsites.

Accessibility Built In

WCAG 2.2 AA compliance embedded at the component level, not retrofitted after launch.

Multi-Audience Coverage

Admissions, faculty profiles, research, news, events, alumni, and giving in one system.

Built for Universities

AI Powered Enterprise CMS

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  • Multi surface content delivery
  • AI drafts with human approval
  • Enterprise identity and SSO
  • Audit ready governance
  • Global compliance standards
  • Security and accessibility built in
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Our Latest Work

"We're very happy with our decision to go with Vardot."

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Lasting Impact

See how universities have unified hundreds of sites, equipped distributed editors, and delivered more consistent experiences to students and faculty.
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Perspectives

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What “AI-Ready Content” Actually Means for a CMS

AI-ready content is content stored as structured, retrievable data, not page copy rewritten in an answer-first style. Google says its AI features need no special markup, no chunking, and no llms.txt. What actually determines retrievability lives in the content model, and this piece gives a six-point check for whether yours is the constraint.

Drupal 12 Requirements

Drupal 12 Requirements: Why Drupal 10 Sites Must Hit 11.3

Core blocks Drupal 10.6 to 11.2. Only 11.3 bridges Drupal 10 and satisfies Drupal 12. Most 2026 upgrade plans have it wrong.

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