Current HESS / Coalition Contract Business Partner Portal
Welcome to our business partner portal with links that are important for our business contract partners and affiliates. Our HESS / Coalition Business Contract Partners have two very special benefits to enhance their engagement with HESS members.
- HESS Business Partners Quarterly Articles – Our contract partners are encouraged to include a short article teaser with a link to drive member traffic to your website for more information or continuation of your article. The link for this can be found above.
- HESS Quarterly Webinars– Contract partners are encouraged to schedule quarterly webinars with our member institutions for product demos, product updates or general thought leader topics. The link to schedule your webinars can be found above.
Within the webinar reservation form is a dropdown showing what dates are taken by our partners. Please avoid these dates as two webinars cannot be scheduled on the same date. Our business partners and affiliates are allowed general use of our HESS Consortium and the Coalition for College Cost Savings logos.
Click here to download our logos for white and dark backgrounds. Please note that these forms are only for approved business partners of the HESS Consortium and The Coalition for College Cost Savings. All other submissions will be deleted. Thank you!
Registered HESS Business Partners & Affiliates
Details and discount information is provided to our members through our exclusive HESS Online Leadership Community (OLC) portal. Username and password is required.
Ad Astra is the only AI-powered Smart Scheduling™ solution that unifies courses, faculty, rooms, and events to boost institutional efficiency and help more students graduate on time. As a trusted partner to over 550 higher education institutions and nearly 30 years of expertise, Ad Astra delivers the only all-in-one scheduling platform that enables colleges and universities to build student-centric schedules that improve completion, maximize resource use, and strengthen financial sustainability.
Our platform is organized into a tiered suite that allows you to master foundational efficiency before moving into high impact strategic planning:
+ Essential Scheduling: Streamlines the core “mechanics” of the campus. It unifies course, event, and room scheduling into a single source of truth, eliminating the “spreadsheet silos” that lead to double-bookings and manual errors.
+ Data-Informed Scheduling: Introduces Smart Scheduling™ tools that leverage historical enrollment trends and real time registration monitoring. This layer identifies underutilized spaces and “bottleneck” courses, allowing deans to make targeted adjustments during the live registration cycle.
+ Student-Informed Scheduling: Moves beyond historical trends by incorporating student specific data from degree maps and academic plans. This tier ensures the schedule is built around actual student requirements, identifying exactly which courses are needed to move specific cohorts toward graduation,
effectively increasing Degree Velocity®.
+ Integrated Planning: Represents the highest level of scheduling maturity. This is our Annual Schedule Planning solution, the only one of its kind in the industry. It aligns stakeholders across the institution to build a full year of conflict-free courses in advance, directly mapping offerings to student completion paths.
Unlike modular point solutions that require complex re-integrations as you grow, Ad Astra’s all-in-one approach ensures that your data, from faculty workloads to room capacities, flows seamlessly through every stage of your evolution. As your institution becomes more comfortable with data-driven decision making, the platform unlocks advanced machine learning recommendations and Faculty Capacity Planning tools without requiring a change in infrastructure.
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