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Slate for Higher Education
Every sport, every game day, one creative staff.
Athletic departments at Michigan, ASU, Florida State, Alabama, Stanford, and a dozen more run game day through Slate. The math is the same everywhere: 28 sports, a creative staff of three, ADA on every clip, and new interns every August. Slate puts designer-built templates, a locked brand system, and captions in SIDs’ and students’ hands, on the phone and in the browser. When the rest of campus is ready, admissions, schools, and comms join the same system under the university’s brand.
Trusted by athletic departments and campus teams at
University of Miami
University of Cincinnati
University of Michigan
Education
TCU
Dartmouth College
Florida State University
University of Tennessee
University of Wisconsin
Kansas State University
Indiana University
University of Florida
University of Alabama
Michigan State University
Stanford University
How Slate does it
Game day across every sport, from the sideline
Twenty-eight sports, a creative staff of three. Whoever’s at the venue fills in a template on their phone, and lineups, final scores, and highlight clips go out on brand while the game is still going.
Recruiting and signing-day graphics in minutes
Commit graphics, visit recaps, and player edits from templates the design team built once. The SID fills the name and the photo; the brand does the rest. Out before the rival’s version.
Templates students and SIDs fill, no Photoshop required
Interns turn over every August. The templates don’t. A new student worker’s first post looks like the brand team made it, on web or on their phone.
Per-sport collections under one department brand
Football, basketball, and Olympic sports each get their own fonts, logos, overlays, and templates inside one account, with permissions that keep the department’s standard intact.
Beyond athletics: admissions, schools, and campus comms on the same system
When central marketing joins, every unit gets its own Brand Hub under the university’s. One standard set once, instead of policing every department’s posts.
ADA-ready captions by default
Captions on every clip, editable word by word, with SRTs for the platforms that need them. The accessibility requirement communications staff carry across every sport, handled in the editor.
Ask Rio to cut the footage.
“Pull the three best answers from the postgame presser and make them vertical.” Rio edits your real footage on a real timeline, in your brand.
We couldn’t have done everything we’ve done without Slate. Our social engagement is up across the board, and more of our team can now contribute creatively.
It’s been tremendously helpful. We’ve taken a huge load off of our graphic design department, so we’re able to do much better on social with it.
This past year we were using Canva and I was like, use this font and use this style, and they just couldn’t do it. The main thing was brand consistency.
Things get done fast, they look nice and high quality, and my interns don’t have to use Canva anymore.
We love Slate. It’s a key part of what we’re trying to do.
More on Slate for higher education
Why do athletic departments use Slate?
Because they produce pro-team volume with a fraction of the staff. Slate gives SIDs, student workers, and the creative team designer-built templates, a locked brand system, captions, and a mobile app, so every sport gets game-day content without a design request. Michigan, ASU, Florida State, Alabama, Stanford, and a dozen more run it this way.Can the rest of the university use it too?
Yes. Multiple Brand Hubs let athletics, admissions, schools, and departments keep their own templates and assets under one account and one set of permissions. Most campuses start in athletics and expand from there.Is it simple enough for student workers?
Yes. Templates, text presets, and one-tap captions mean a student’s first post looks like the brand team made it. Nobody needs Photoshop.Does it meet accessibility requirements?
Captions are editable word by word and export as SRT, which covers the ADA caption requirements communications staff are asked to meet across every sport.How do we handle turnover every semester?
Permissions and swappable seats make it easy to onboard a new class of creators each year without losing the brand system they create from. Revoke access in a click when they graduate.How does Slate compare to Canva for a department?
Canva templates are editable in every layer by anyone, which is how brand standards drift. Slate templates come from your designers’ own PSDs with brand layers locked, live in a shared Brand Hub with permissions, and sit next to a video editor and captions built for game day.
