Case Study: Lone Star College

College maintains business continuity in a crisis

Lone Star College has maintained operations through hurricanes and flash floods, developing recovery and business continuity plans. COVID-19 presented a new challenge: stay up and running for a longer duration. See how Cisco helped the school weather this new storm.

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Who is Lone Star College?

Industry: Education

Location: Houston, Texas

Size: 1,300 employees and 114,000 students

Website: lonestar.edu

Summary

Challenges

  • Maintain business continuity in the midst of COVID-19 closure
  • Enable unified administrative collaboration among dispersed staff
  • Immediately transition to online-only classes

Results

  • Integrated video, voice, messaging, desktop sharing, and more in support of online classes
  • Distance learning demands are balanced against business continuity strategies
  • Moved from blended learning to 100 percent online classes for more than 100,000 students