This guide is for CIOs, IT directors, registrars and financial aid directors at colleges that run Anthology Student, or that ran it under one of its older names. It explains the three names the product has carried and what is publicly known about its change of owner in 2025 and 2026. I am independent of the vendor, and I have worked with this system since 2007.
The short answer
- It is one product line. CampusVue, CampusNexus Student and Anthology Student are names the same student information system (SIS) has carried at different times.
- The CampusNexus Student name arrived in 2014. The Anthology Student name arrived in 2021.
- Ellucian has owned the product since December 31, 2025.
- Ellucian tells Anthology customers that support, service and contract terms continue, and that integrations, APIs and customizations keep working.
- That page gives no product roadmap. The product was still being reported as Anthology Student in March 2026.
The sources for each point are in the sections below.
A timeline of the names
2007: CampusVue. I started on this system in 2007, when it was called CampusVue. It was the student information system of Campus Management Corp. The trade press covered it under that name, for example a CampusVue Student release in 2011.
September 24, 2014: CampusNexus Student. Campus Management Corp. launched CampusNexus Student and CRM. The company presented it as a new architecture built on its earlier applications: CampusVue for student records and Talisma for CRM, the software that tracks contact with prospects and students. Campus Technology reported that the new system merged the two.
July 7, 2020: Anthology, the company. Campus Management, Campus Labs and iModules merged to form Anthology. The product name did not change that day. In November 2020 the market research firm ListEdTech still listed it as CampusNexus Student.
April 26, 2021: Anthology Student. Anthology announced new names for its products. Its student information system became Anthology Student.
October 2021: Blackboard. Anthology completed its merger with Blackboard, announced the month before. The combined company kept the Anthology name.
September 29, 2025: Chapter 11. Anthology filed for Chapter 11 protection in a federal bankruptcy court in Texas. A law firm that worked on the case gives that date. Copies of the company’s announcement carry a September 30 date, so you will see both. Anthology said it would sell its SIS and ERP business, which includes the student system and the finance and HR software. Ellucian was named as the opening bidder, known in bankruptcy as a stalking horse.
December 31, 2025: Ellucian. Ellucian completed its acquisition of that business and announced it on January 5, 2026. According to that report, more than 260 customers were covered.
February and March 2026: the rest of Anthology. Encoura acquired the Lifecycle Engagement and Student Success products as of February 2, 2026. By early March, Anthology had left Chapter 11 and renamed itself Blackboard, a company focused on teaching and learning.
What changed with the new owner, and what did not
What changed is the company behind the product. The business Ellucian bought is reported under four names: Anthology Student, Finance & HCM, Student Verification and Enterprise Ops Legacy. The former Anthology is now Blackboard, and it no longer owns the student system.
Anthology’s CRM did not go to Ellucian. It was part of the Lifecycle Engagement business, which Encoura acquired along with the Student Success products. A school that runs both the student system and the CRM now has two vendors.
Some things did not change, according to Ellucian: its page for Anthology customers says support, service and contract terms continue, and that integrations, APIs and customizations keep working. Ellucian has also said it will continue to deliver and maintain the existing systems.
One thing has not been said: that page gives no product roadmap. I will not guess at one. Rely on what Ellucian puts in writing.
One note on names. Ellucian has a student system under its own brand, Ellucian Student, introduced in April 2025 and featured in its 2026 product update. It is a different product, built on Ellucian’s Banner and Colleague systems. The product this guide covers is the one listed above as Anthology Student.
What I would do now if I ran this product
These five steps are low risk, and none of them depends on what any vendor does next.
- Keep an inventory. List every SIS integration, custom report and workflow, and name an owner for each. Any upgrade, audit or data migration starts with that list.
- Document your customizations. Write down what each one does, why it exists and who asked for it.
- Keep your test environments current. A test copy that matches production lets you check a change before staff and students see it.
- Ask direct questions and get the answers in writing. Start with your vendor account contact. Ask about support, contract terms and plans for the products you run. Keep the replies.
- Do not rush. As noted above, Ellucian says current terms continue. Base any decision on your own inventory and on written answers.
If you want help with any of these steps, that is what my Anthology Student consulting work is for.
I update this page when the facts change, and I last checked it on October 17, 2026.