Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The TCCS Project Team has developed customized guides for all users and will facilitate orientation and training opportunities for students and faculty in collaboration with 5C administrators.
We will schedule these during the middle of the 2027 spring semester. We will coordinate faculty sessions with the Academic Deans Committee (ADC) and student ones with the Student Deans Committee (SDC) and registrars offices.
The SIS project is the effort by the five undergraduate institutions (5Cs) of The Claremont Colleges (Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College) and The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) to transition to Anthology Student, a new student information system (SIS).
The SIS project will impact the management of academic records, course scheduling, degree audits, academic advising, student accounts, institutional research, and internal and external reporting. Currently, students and faculty engage with the Jenzabar CX SIS through what is commonly referred to as “the portal,” wherein students manage their accounts and course schedules, and faculty manage their class rosters, grades, and advising responsibilities.
In addition, the SIS facilitates student and faculty records management, transcript services, degree and enrollment verifications, degree progress auditing, and institutional research. It also interfaces with other systems supporting essential campus functions such as admission, financial aid, and residential life.
Anthology Student is a cloud-based student information system (SIS). The Claremont Colleges identified Anthology Student through a SIS market analysis and vendor selection process, with the support of Strata Information Group. The vendor at the time, Anthology, presented a proof-of-concept of its Student product to 5C stakeholders. It demonstrated the product’s functionality aligned with the Colleges’ critical needs, including support for cross-registration, abundant integrations with third-party systems, a contemporary cloud-based technical infrastructure, and flexible configuration capabilities. Through our rigorous vendor selection process, the Colleges obtained feedback from over 50 5C functional and technical subject matter experts, which confirmed Anthology’s ability to meet the Consortium’s needs. Reference calls with other Anthology clients also supported this assessment and inspired confidence in the vendor’s commitment to customer success.
The current student information system (SIS) at the 5Cs was implemented over 20 years ago. That product is built on outdated on-premises technology, has been highly customized, and is approaching end-of-life. This leaves the 5Cs in a precarious position where academic operations rely on a fragile technical infrastructure and a diminishing pool of experts capable of maintaining it. The Consortium must transition away from its present system and implement a contemporary SIS that can meet The Claremont Colleges’ unique needs for years to come.
The 5Cs have charged TCCS with assembling a team to manage the SIS implementation in collaboration with 5C SIS users and implementation consultants from Anthology. Staff members from the Registrar, Student Accounts, and Information Technology Services offices from each of the colleges, alongside colleagues from various other offices, are substantially engaged. More information is available on the Team section of this site.
The Claremont Colleges and TCCS are committed to preserving the security and confidentiality of student records. As we do for our legacy system, we will employ a combination of technological measures, best practices, and policies to regulate access to Anthology Student. The Anthology Student system incorporates robust security features that conform to industry standards.
Yes. During the implementation, 5C community members may contact the TCCS project team at sis.help@claremont.edu for assistance. Once the new SIS is live, TCCS will designate staff members to provide ongoing support for the system.
Below, please find additional information by the following user groups: faculty, staff, and students.
Faculty members will use a new portal to post grades, access class rosters, manage requests for approval to register for courses, and obtain advising information. They should also anticipate changes to the way routine academic business gets done. For example, there may be new forms, approval processes, or system-generated messages. Orientations, training sessions, and guides will be offered to faculty to help them learn to use the new portal.
The ADC (Academic Deans Committee) will coordinate communications to provide timely and relevant information to faculty members about the project.
Anthology Student is a cloud-based system, which means the user interface and features available are largely pre-determined by the vendor. The implementation team will seek feedback from faculty who participate in the orientation sessions in the spring and summer of 2027.
Students will use a new student portal to register for courses, view grades and degree progress information, and obtain unofficial copies of their transcript. They should also anticipate changes to the way routine academic business gets done. For example, there will be new forms, approval processes, and system-generated messages. Training sessions and guides will be offered to students to help them learn to use the new portal.
Anthology Student is a cloud-based system, which means the user interface and features available are largely pre-determined by the vendor. The implementation team will seek feedback from students who participate in the training offered at each college in the spring and summer of 2027.
The colleges have identified the system integrations that must be ready by the time the new system launches. Each of these integrations will be redeveloped by the SIS vendor, the TCCS SIS team, or specific college IT departments so that they will be ready to deploy in the summer of 2027.
We anticipate being without either CX or Anthology Student for 10 business days. This estimate was provided by the vendor and is based on other implementations, therefore the actual time required may vary, particularly as our project is notably different than most Anthology Student clients.
Cutover is scheduled to align with a period of relatively few SIS transactions with the intent to minimize the volume of record updates that administrative offices will need to track and hold for entry into Anthology Student after go-live.
Yes, the portal will give students the ability to request instructor approval to register for a course section. This feature will only be available during their registration appointments.
The Anthology Student portal will provide the essential functions faculty members expect in the registration, advising, class roster, and grading features. However, the appearance and operations of each of these features will differ from those in the current portal.
All students that will be continuing their enrollment for Fall 2027, will pre-register for courses in April 2027 as usual via the legacy system. At the start of the Fall 2027 semester, all 5Cs students will use the new Anthology Student portal to register for courses.
New students are expected to register for fall 2027 semester classes via the Anthology Student portal.
Yes, the new portal includes features that permit students to check their degree progress. Colleges may choose whether or when to make these features available to students, depending on conditions and policies at each institution.
Yes, active students will be able to view and download a PDF version of their unofficial transcript.
Yes, the Anthology Student portal will give 5C students the ability to request instructor approval to register for a restricted course section. Instructors will use the faculty portal to view and respond to these requests. The instructor approval process will function much like the Permission to Enroll (PERM) request does in the legacy system.
Anthology Student will support key functions such as academic records, cross-registration, degree audits, student advising, student accounts, and institutional research.
We will fully convert student records for anyone who attended one of the 5Cs in fall 2015 or later. Records for students who completed their attendance at a 5C prior to fall 2015 will be partially converted.
The last day is currently scheduled to be Monday, June 14, 2027, however this date may shift as we get closer to go live. Notification will be provided as early as possible to allow system users to prepare.
On the last day, all integrations with the Jenzabar CX system will be taken offline and the new SIS will not be active yet. From approximately June 14 to June 30, no changes will be recorded in CX. Any transactions or data coming from previously integrated systems will be either manually entered or synced into Anthology Student after July 1, 2027.
Ellucian will continue provide transitional support for three (3) months after go-live, which would be through the end of September 2027. If needed, we have the option to contract their Managed Services to extend the duration of the transitional support period.
We plan to extend access to faculty and students during the latter half of July 2027. Prior to that, each college will schedule preview and orientation sessions for faculty and students during the 2026-2027 academic year.
