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August 18, 2026

Build a course schedule you can actually defend

Course schedules are usually built department by department, then fitted into whatever rooms are free. By the time the term is locked, nobody can answer the two questions that actually matter: what did this cost us, and can students still finish on time?

CollegeVine Course Optimization changes that. It pulls faculty salary data, enrollment trends, and DFW rates into one course-by-course view, so you can see what's growing, what's costing you, and what's failing students.

Registrars typically build a single master schedule and hope it holds up. Course Optimization lets you generate several, each optimized around a different priority, like graduation rate or cost savings, and see exactly what each one changes: sections merged, courses reassigned to adjuncts, sections cancelled, and the dollar and student impact behind every move.

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Turn insight into action with tasks

How Molloy University partnered with CollegeVine to use AI for transcript processing, giving 835 hours back to its operations team

How Barry University partnered with CollegeVine to build the foundation for consistent decisions and earlier interventions, powering its degree audit and a 24/7 student helpdesk

How Widener University partnered with CollegeVine to turn disconnected systems into a summer catch-up plan for its students

Build a course schedule you can actually defend

Changelog: June 2026

How Northern Arizona University partnered with CollegeVine to replace event-by-event outreach with an agent that accompanies 11,000 visiting families a year

How New Jersey Institute of Technology partnered with CollegeVine to answer students faster and build one view of the student record

EDUCAUSE Demo Day | How CollegeVine's ontology powers AI across higher ed

6 AI use cases gaining traction in higher ed operations

The VineDown: How to make enrollment management cool again | Reggie Hill @ UMSL

Introducing CollegeVine’s free IPEDS Insights Agent

Before you deploy an AI agent, ask yourself these 3 questions

How your enrollment agent turns one question into a deployed app

CollegeVine CEO Zack Perkins chats with Mickey Baines about how AI is changing enrollment analytics

Jessica Bohan and Mickey Baines talk about how higher ed teams can use AI agents

The VineDown: The subprime student loan crisis no one is talking about with New America's Stephen Burd

The VineDown: The CFO playbook for enrollment leaders with Kevin Dyerly at University of Redlands

The VineDown: Why most enrollment leaders are optimizing for the wrong number with Dr. John G. Haller

The VineDown: From basketball coach to NACAC president: Todd Rinehart on recruiting with your soul intact

The VineDown: The transcript is broken: Kevin Mathes on why admissions is running on outdated infrastructure

The VineDown: How UCLA's head of admissions processes 170,000 applications a year | Gary Clark

The VineDown: How brutal honesty built five straight years of enrollment records | Jenny Sawyer @ Louisville

The VineDown: How to expand the definition of student success with the admissions leader @ UT Austin

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The Campus Tech Team's Views on AI

How Finance Leaders Are Charting a Strategic Path for AI in Higher Ed

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Establishing a human baseline for transcript reading accuracy

Unlocking AI Transformation: How Finance Leaders Are Shaping the Future of Higher Ed

Higher education is asking the wrong question about AI

Critical insights at the speed of thought

Know your feeder schools before travel season

How AI agents could save your incoming class

Your enrollment briefing, ready before you sit down

How your enrollment agent learns your CRM

Introducing the communications audit

Getting ahead of summer melt

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