One workspace for your entire campus operations
Enterprise-grade
Higher-ed ready
Institutional data stays governed: certified infrastructure, granular permissions per department, and single sign-on through your existing identity provider.
Every department, finally in sync
Without ClickUp
- IT gets 50 tickets a week by email and half get lost
- The provost wants a status update so three people scramble
- Accreditation evidence is scattered across shared drives
- Career fair planning lives in someone's head
- Five departments run on five tools with no shared view
With ClickUp
- Forms and a Super Agent triage and route every request
- Ask Brain² across tickets, docs, and dashboards instead of chasing email
- Docs track evidence and Super Agents flag gaps before your review
- Templates and automations so new staff can run it day one
- Every team plans, documents, and reports from the same system
“We can now collaborate within one system and have visibility into critical data.”
Give your higher ed teams super powers with AI
Resolve IT requests, faster
Route tickets, manage licenses, and track hardware requests across the institution, replacing email triage for good.
- ServiceNow
- Jira Service Management
- Shared inboxes
- Spreadsheet trackers
- Ask Brain² which tickets are past SLA before the stand-up starts
- A Super Agent triages and routes requests from any department
- Resolution trends surface to IT leadership automatically
“We were juggling Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, Confluence, and Teams—five separate systems. ClickUp replaced all of them, giving our 170+ IT team members one place to manage projects, operations, and capacity.”
Deliver events, without the chaos
Coordinate career fairs, orientations, and homecoming on a platform designed for student affairs and university life teams.
- Spreadsheets
- Email chains
- Google Forms
- Shared drives
- Ask Brain² for the latest employer confirmations without digging through email
- Coordinate partners, staff, and budgets in one place
- A Super Agent chases RSVPs and writes the post-event report
“When teammates left, we didn't know the mechanics of how they got their specific tasks accomplished. ClickUp is how we make sure all of the steps associated with an event actually happen.”
Stay audit-ready, always
Track accreditation evidence, manage compliance docs, and flag gaps before your next SACSCOC, HLC, or MSCHE review cycle.
- Shared drives
- Spreadsheet trackers
- Email threads
- Manual checklists
- Ask Brain² which standards still need evidence before the next review
- Keep documentation current across every accrediting body
- A Super Agent flags gaps and opens the tasks that are missing
Evidence by standard
Every standard carries its own evidence, owner, and review date, so the committee works from one source instead of six shared drives.Outstanding before the March submissionThe Evidence Agent re-reads attached artifacts each night and opens a task the moment a standard falls out of date.14 of 18 standards complete · 4 outstanding
Standards
- 7.1 Institutional planning
- 8.1 Student achievement
- 8.2.a Assessment cycle
- 9.1 Program content
- 10.3 Archived syllabi
- 12.1 Student support services
Evidence room
- Assessment cycle 2025-26
- Program review — Nursing
- Faculty credentials roster
- QEP impact report
- Archived syllabi — CAS
“We can now collaborate within one system and have visibility into critical data.”
Track every grant, start to finish
Manage grants from proposal to closeout, monitor burn rates, and track sponsor deliverables on a platform built for research administration.
- Legacy grant systems
- Spreadsheets
- Shared drives
- Ask Brain² which awards are off burn-rate before the PI meeting
- Track proposals, awards, and closeouts in one place
- A Super Agent nudges sponsor deliverables and drafts PI updates
“Every new request with conditional logic meant a relay of manual emails… Now one ClickUp agent fires each step automatically. The handoffs just happen.”
See every department's work, without asking
Give the provost, deans, and department heads real-time visibility into workloads and bottlenecks across every office.
- Friday status emails
- Spreadsheet roll-ups
- Manual reporting
- Disconnected dashboards
- Ask Brain² for a cabinet-ready summary of department workload
- See every office's status from one dashboard
- A Super Agent flags bottlenecks before they become blockers
Eleven departments reported in. Overall throughput is steady, with two areas worth your attention before the cabinet meeting.
Where work is piling up
Facilities has 62 open work orders against a team of nine, up from 44 in January.
IT Services cleared its ticket backlog for the third week running.
At risk
Two accreditation evidence items for Standard 8.2.a have no owner and are due in 18 days.
The watershed monitoring award is 103% through its budget with four months remaining.
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Tasks Completed
Workload by status
Cumulative flow
Insight AgentFacilities is carrying 40% more open work than last month. Two accreditation tasks are now the critical path.
“Every week, someone was pulled off technical work just to build reports from Excel and SharePoint. ClickUp eliminated 100% of that manual admin. Our team's morale went up because people want to fix problems, not build pivot tables.”
AI agents that already know higher education
Compliance Agent · working in Accreditation
Rachel Kim
Hey @Compliance Agent — are we ready for the SACSCOC review in March?
Compliance Agent
Not yet. 14 of 18 evidence items are complete. Four are outstanding:
- 8.2.a Assessment cycle no artifact since 2024. Task opened for Institutional Research.
- 10.3 Archived syllabi College of Arts & Sciences has 31 courses missing.
- QEP impact report drafted, awaiting the provost sign-off.
- Nursing program review 70% complete, due 14 February.
I've created subtasks for each and assigned the standard owners.
It's like adding 15 full-time staff to your institution
0% ROI
0 hours saved
<0 months payback
According to a 2025 Forrester study, ClickUp saves the average organization over 30,000 hours per year and delivers 384% ROI over three years.
Three universities, in their own words
“One of the biggest wins is the ability to track, measure, and show the value of our work. We've got a lot of unstructured data, but ClickUp helps us cleanly aggregate it so we can prove the impact we make for the university.”
Ashley ArensEnterprise Delivery Manager
- 170+ users adopted
- 100% drop in manual admin reporting
- 5 legacy systems replaced
“When teammates left, we didn't know the mechanics of how they got their specific tasks accomplished. ClickUp is how we make sure all of the steps associated with an event actually happen.”
Michael TurnerAssociate Director
- 200+ events per year
- Knowledge continuity
- Repeatable event execution
“ClickUp didn't just fix our project management, it eliminated the administrative drag that was consuming entire roles. We absorbed a senior position with no backfill, freed a full-time employee from chasing deadlines, and for the first time in seven years, we feel proactive instead of behind.”
Karen KaminskiSenior Director, Engagement Strategy
- ~300 staff on one platform
- 1 FTE freed from deadline chasing
- 630,000+ alumni operations
Frequently asked questions
ClickUp is a single workspace where every department in higher education can manage projects, documents, dashboards, forms, and ClickUp AI in one place. IT, student affairs, research, facilities, the registrar, and marketing all work from the same system instead of juggling spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected tools.
From IT tickets to accreditation, higher education runs on ClickUp.
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