Students, Staff, Professors, Parents: Smith College and Workday Reimagine the On-Campus "User" Experience

At the recent Workday Rising conference in Orlando, I had the chance to talk with Samantha Earp, CIO and VP for IT at Smith College. Samantha has a background in linguistics and a fascinating perspective on the ways that language and communication influence the ways that she works with her IT team and the larger community at Smith. We spoke about the decision to partner with Workday to help streamline the college's systems and get closer to a single source of truth—and how Workday's emphasis on user experience helped support Samantha's efforts to use technology to help improve campus culture and enhance collaboration between students, staff, professors, parents, and others who make up the Smith College community.