Service Line: Slate Optimization

At the recent Slate Summit 2025 in Las Vegas, Technolutions founder and CEO Alexander Clark unveiled a powerful new wave of AI-driven features, marking the next chapter in Slate’s evolution. Slate AI is transforming from a promising assistant into a full-blown force of automation, insight, and creativity. Whether you’re a Slate superuser or just starting to explore what’s possible, these new AI features are set to revolutionize how higher education institutions manage admissions, communications, student success, and everything in between.

Last month, Carnegie’s Slate experts teamed up with Technolutions to host a Stump the Slate Squad webinar. With hundreds of institutions tuning in, the questions poured in—everything from quirky form logic to complex reporting challenges and student record edge cases.

If you’re a member of the Slate community, you already know Slate is one of your most powerful tools. But when your Slate expert leaves—or your team is stretched too thin—daily operations, communications, application workflows, and more can quickly fall behind. And for many institutions, hiring new full-time staff simply isn’t feasible. That’s where Carnegie’s Embedded Slate Captain offering comes in. Our Embedded Slate Captain gives your institution flexible, high-impact Slate support from an experienced professional who functions as part of your team—without the long-term commitment or cost of a full-time hire.

If your institution uses Slate but hasn’t strategized about leveraging Ping’s capabilities, then this article is for you. Think of it like Google Analytics for Slate – you can see where a student came from and what they did during their time on the site. However, the aspect that is different from Google Analytics is that you can connect this behavioral information to student profiles once a student enters the system.

hen launching a new Slate instance, one of the most crucial steps for ensuring high deliverability is IP warming. IP warming is the gradual process of building trust with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by sending a small, increasing volume of emails over time.

It’s no secret that colleges are vying for the attention of a dwindling population of prospective undergraduate students.  With the interests and concerns of our audiences ever-evolving, so must our Slate email communications. We’ve compiled a list of our top recommendations from the 2023-2024 admissions cycle for you to implement in your own Slate instance.

As schools weigh the pros and cons of taking Search in-house, the topics of email deliverability and sender reputation are bound to come up in conversation. And for valid reasons! Both email deliverability and sender reputation directly impact the success of your campaigns, and they’re incredibly intertwined with each other.

In today’s higher education climate, “student retention” can no longer afford to be just a buzzword on your campus. Institutions are being tasked with looking beyond just making the class, to find ways to both keep students enrolled, and also to help them thrive. It’s a daunting responsibility, especially when folks are already wearing multiple hats and their plates are overflowing – but, Slate is here to help!

In the realm of graduate enrollment management, effective and efficient email communication is paramount. Yet, graduate schools often find themselves grappling with limited resources and bandwidth to develop comprehensive communication strategies. Here is a breakdown of some of the tools and techniques to give your graduate communication campaigns a competitive edge. 

Clarity powered by Slate elevates your enrollment and marketing efforts by offering deeper insights into marketing attribution and student behavior. Learn more!