Rippling Higher Education Consulting and Implementation Partner

Transform faculty and staff experiences with an expert Rippling Partner. We can implement, integrate and support Rippling solutions for your college, university or other institution.

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Higher Education challenges we solve

Managing a Diverse Workforce of Faculty, Staff, and Contractors

Higher education institutions often employ a mix of full-time professors, adjunct faculty, administrative staff, and contractors, each with different payroll and benefits requirements.

Streamlining Onboarding and Offboarding for High Turnover Roles

Universities and colleges experience frequent staff transitions, particularly with adjunct faculty and seasonal employees.

Ensuring Compliance Across Jurisdictions and Employment Types

Higher education institutions must comply with various labor laws and union agreements for faculty, staff, and student workers.

Providing Access to Training and Development Programs

Faculty and staff require ongoing training for certifications, compliance, and professional development.

Managing Payroll for Grants and Research Funding

Higher education institutions often pay faculty and staff using grant or research-specific funds, which require accurate allocation and tracking.

Supporting a Global and Remote Workforce

Many universities employ remote faculty, visiting professors, and international researchers, adding complexity to payroll, benefits, and tax compliance.

Why Rippling makes sense for higher ed

Rippling makes sense for higher education because it provides a unified platform that simplifies the management of diverse faculty, staff, and student worker needs.

Streamlined Workforce Management for Diverse Roles

Rippling simplifies payroll, benefits, and compliance for a mix of full-time faculty, adjuncts, grant-funded researchers, and student workers.

Efficient Onboarding, Offboarding, and IT Provisioning

With automated workflows, Rippling enables higher education institutions to quickly onboard and offboard staff, while provisioning secure access to the tools and systems they need.

Support for Training, Compliance, and Analytics

Rippling’s integrated LMS and compliance tracking tools support ongoing training and certification, while workforce analytics provide insights to optimize resource allocation and reduce administrative costs.

Rippling Solutions for higher education

Automated Payroll for Faculty and Staff

Rippling streamlines payroll for full-time faculty, adjunct professors, and administrative staff by automating complex pay schedules, grant allocations, and multi-state tax compliance.

Grant-Specific Fund Allocation

With Rippling, higher education institutions can allocate payroll and benefits costs to specific grants or research projects, ensuring transparency and compliance with funding requirements.

Seamless Onboarding for New Faculty and Seasonal Staff

Rippling automates onboarding workflows, ensuring new faculty, student workers, and seasonal staff are quickly set up with payroll, benefits, and IT access.

Global Payroll for International Faculty and Researchers

Rippling simplifies payroll for international faculty and visiting researchers, handling multi-currency payments, tax compliance, and visa-related documentation.

Integrated Learning Management for Faculty Development

Rippling’s LMS enables universities to create and track professional development programs for faculty, ensuring compliance with accreditation standards and enhancing teaching quality.

Compliance Management for Multi-Jurisdictional Campuses

Rippling automates compliance tracking across multiple states and countries, ensuring adherence to labor laws, union agreements, and student worker regulations.

Expense Management for Academic and Research Travel

With Rippling, faculty and researchers can easily submit travel and research-related expenses, and administrators can approve and reimburse them in a streamlined process.

IT Provisioning for Faculty and Administrative Staff

Rippling automates IT provisioning, ensuring faculty and staff have secure access to systems like learning platforms, email, and research databases from day one.

Benefits Administration for Diverse Workforce Needs

Rippling helps universities design and manage benefits packages that cater to the diverse needs of full-time faculty, adjuncts, and student employees.

Workforce Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making

Rippling provides real-time insights into workforce costs, turnover rates, and compliance metrics, empowering university administrators to optimize resource allocation and staffing strategies.

Your transformed, connected campus

Seamless Workforce Integration Across Campus Roles

Rippling connects faculty, staff, and student workers on a unified platform, ensuring seamless payroll, benefits, and compliance management for a cohesive campus experience.

Automated Onboarding and Resource Provisioning

Rippling streamlines onboarding by automating access to payroll, benefits, and IT systems, ensuring new hires and student workers have the tools they need from day one.

Centralized Compliance for Multi-Campus Operations

With Rippling, higher education institutions can manage compliance across multiple locations, ensuring adherence to labor laws, union agreements, and student employment regulations.

Actionable Insights for Strategic Campus Planning

Rippling’s analytics tools provide real-time data on workforce costs, resource allocation, and productivity, enabling informed decision-making for a connected and efficient campus.

Rippling Modules available

Our Rippling consultants give you the advantage of implementing the best Rippling module or app from the ecosystem to meet your needs. From initial discovery, implementation and configuration to more custom development and training, our experts ensure high user adoption rates, getting your people processes optimized quickly and efficiently.

How we engage

You will get your own VRP Delivery Manager who works alongside you to understand your project needs, ways of working, client expectations and project deliverables to identify and support resource on-boarding.

Implementing Rippling for Higher Education

1. Discovery

First, we seek to understand your institution and team’s specific needs, issues and goals.

Team discussing the unique needs and goals of a higher education institution to tailor Rippling solutions.
Team configuring Rippling to fit the specific needs of a higher education institution, including custom apps and components.

2. Implementation & Configuration

Next, we configure Rippling to fit your organization, including any custom apps or components.

3. Integrations

We connect your Rippling platform with your other key applications and data sources.

Team connecting Rippling with key applications and data sources for seamless integration in a higher education setting.
Team working on migrating essential apps and databases to Rippling for improved functionality and efficiency.

4. Migrations

If you have any crucial but outdated apps or databases, we can move these to Rippling.

5. Training & Support

We help with user onboarding, ongoing training and any support needs you might have.

Team providing onboarding, training, and ongoing support to ensure users are fully equipped to use Rippling.
Team managing administration and maintenance of Rippling, ensuring smooth operations for the institution.

6. Managed Services

Our Managed Services practice can take over administration and maintenance for you.

Why choose thePeopleStack?

We are a full-service Rippling Consulting Partner, HR, compliance and payroll experts, delivering innovation for all sizes of clients across the entire Rippling platform.

Successful projects

We were an early and particularly vocal adopter of Rippling and boast the largest complement of successful implementations in the industry. With more to come.

Expert certifications

You can access our talent pool of Rippling Certified Administrators, Payroll, Expense and Learning Consultants as well as App Shop Developers to meet your business needs.

Years in operation

We are leading Rippling Consulting Partners and Expert HR practitioners. Our staff are constantly building on their knowledge with training and innovative projects.

Global presence

Our local client-facing team in North America coupled with our team of global contractors provide the right blend of quality and cost.

Dedicated support

Your business runs regardless of hours, weekends or holidays - and so do we. We craft client-specific SLAs to suit your specific needs.

Innovative

HR industry and HRIS expertise coupled to an overarching curiosity, with a human-centered innovation spirit

Agile to deliver effectively

For all projects from QuickStarts to multi-year enterprise transformation programs.

Flexible client services

Including consulting, outsourcing, custom development and managed services.

Cost effective

Blend of local and remote certified experts to provide engagement and delivery that is right for your business.

Achievement emblem: 'Consulting Partner for the Year 2025' distinctionAchievement emblem: 'Consulting Partner for the Year 2024' distinctionAchievement emblem: 'Consulting Partner for the Year 2023' distinctionAward symbol indicating 'Payroll Certified' statusAward symbol indicating 'Expense Management Certified' statusAward symbol indicating 'Learning Management Certified' statusAward symbol indicating 'IAM Certified' status in identity and access managementAward symbol indicating 'Benefit Admin Certified' status in employee benefits managementAward symbol indicating 'Permission and Approvals Certified' status in managing permissions and approvalsAward symbol indicating 'EOR Certified' status in Employer of Record servicesAward symbol indicating 'Time Off Certified' status in workforce leave administrationAward symbol indicating 'HR Compliance Certified' status in HR compliance and governance

What are your options?

If you are taking your first steps with Rippling HRIS, or evolving your existing platform, our experts can match your needs with either full-service consulting and delivery projects, staff augmentation or support.

Rippling services we provide

Rippling Consulting

Rippling Consulting

Maximize the value of your Rippling investment. Our nimble approach gives you access to our local consultants and global delivery expertise. No matter your industry or project size, we can provide the right resources for your people ops goals.

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Functional HR

Fractional HR

Need a fractional CPO or head of HR? Keen to plug an HRBP into a comp plan redesign? Our fractional team offers decades of experience from a few hours a week to full time. Leverage HR resources on demand as needed.

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App Shop Development

App Shop Development

If you're an ISV looking to Rippling as a channel to market, we help design and build Rippling applications and connectors, expertly architected. Our teams have experience building apps for a variety of platforms, marketplaces and regions.

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Quick Start

Quick Start

You can get your business running on Rippling in as little as 3 weeks. Leverage our experience right from the start of your Rippling journey to get a solid foundation to expand upon later. Our Hybrid QuickStart adds more options including local discovery.

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Managed Services

Managed Services

No need to worry about managing your Rippling platform, we'll do it for you. With flexible monthly fees and roll-over hours, you can have an expert team on hand to pro-actively enhance your system and provide support whenever you need.

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Integration

Integrations

Streamline the connections between Rippling and your existing infrastructure. Our experts know the best way to connect your services, whether through middleware or direct connections. Build and orchestrate integration flows the right way to future-proof your business.

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