Using Slate for both admissions and advancement processes offers a considerable advantage for institutions to access all data associated with the complete lifecycle of a person affiliated with their school. 

For example, advancement offices can immediately connect with and cultivate parents of students as soon as they matriculate. They can also use the information about classes taken by students, scholarships received, and other data points to create customized solicitation and engagement plans for those students once they become alumni. 

Conversely, admissions offices can use the relationship information on alumni and donors for cultivating and recruiting children whose parents already have a deep connection to the institution. 

Given the potential sensitivities around these distinct populations of records, it is important to consider user, object, and record access early in the implementation process to ensure a strategy is in place for handling these two cohorts. Slate provides the ability to control users' access, object access, and record access and enables each institution to control the granularity of how closely the business units operate.