Release 6 – June 29, 2025
New Features and Enhancements
Cross-Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Getting a Head Start with Your CAS and Living Profile Applications
This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the current cycle. If activated, this enhancement is available for all participating programs. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.
Liaison offers several applicant-focused products, including:
- CAS Applicant Portal: an intuitive, flexible application service that simplifies the admissions process for higher education degrees.
- Living Profile: a system where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations. Living Profile is targeted at students from high school to early career stages at colleges and graduate schools in the US.
Applicants can choose to prefill their CAS application using their Living Profile account. Applicants can also choose to copy CAS application data and use it to create and prefill a new Living Profile account. This enhancement reduces manual data entry work for the applicant, as they can quickly migrate their demographic information and academic history between Liaison's applicant-focused products.
CAS Applicant Portal
When applicants first create their account for a new application cycle, they have the following options:
- Prefill their CAS application from an existing Living Profile account (new behavior).
- Prefill their CAS application using the reapplication process from a previous CAS application (existing behavior).
- Create a new application (existing behavior).
If the applicant doesn't have an existing Living Profile account, they can also create and prefill a new Living Profile account from their CAS application when they submit their application to a program.
Information that is prefilled from a Living Profile account includes:
- Personal Information section: gender and language data.
- Academic History section: colleges attended, degree data, college coursework, and standardized tests.
- Supporting Information section: experiences and achievements data.
Living Profile
If an applicant chooses to create and prefill a new Living Profile account from their CAS application, they will receive an email once their new Living Profile account is set up. The following items will be prefilled for them in Living Profile:
- Any standard questions that exist in both the CAS application and Living Profile.
- Academic history data.
- Experiences and achievements data.
Program Short Name Field Renamed
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
When creating programs in the CAS Configuration Portal, you have two fields to record your program name:
- Program Name: your official program name that is visible to applicants in the CAS Applicant Portal.
- Program Short Name (formerly WebAdmit Name): an internal, alternate name for your program that only you can see in WebAdMIT and Liaison Outcomes. This is useful if you want to give your program an internal nickname or code it for internal reporting/integration purposes. For example, your official program name may be "Masters of Science in Athletic Training" for the Fall 2025 term, and the internal nickname may be "MS AT FA25."
With this enhancement, the former WebAdmit Name field is renamed Program Short Name to better clarify its use and emphasize that it can be used in both Liaison Outcomes and WebAdMIT.
CAS Configuration Portal
You can view the updated Program Short Name field under the Program Details section.
Liaison Outcomes
Consult your account team for more information about accessing this field in Outcomes.
WebAdMIT
The following areas have been updated to reflect this field name change:
- On the Admissions User search page, the Program Label column is renamed Program Short Name.
- In the List Manager and Export Manager, the Designation Label field is renamed Program Short Name. Note that the default identifier name (i.e., the column name within the export document) for this field remains designation_label. You can change this, if desired.
CAS Applicant Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
CAS Configuration Portal Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in the CAS Configuration Portal. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Organization Primary Contact List
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
Each CAS maintains a list of primary contacts for each organization, which is referred to when questions arise from within the organization, the association, or the Liaison support teams. To make this information more easily maintained and visible to all parties, a new View/Add Contacts section is available in the CAS Configuration Portal.
While you can view the contacts for your organization, only association users can manage this contact list. Association users can add a contact to an organization by navigating to the Organization Details page and clicking Add Contacts. From there, they can add the primary contact's name, email, phone, and any additional notes. Association users can learn more about this feature on the Managing Primary Contacts List page.
To view your organization's primary contacts, click View Contacts. Note that each organization can have up to two primary contacts listed.
Note that the contact lists will be updated for all CASs over the coming weeks.
Liaison Outcomes Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Event Invitation Segment Moved to Communications Wizard
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
Invitation segments are now configured directly within the Event Communication Wizard, improving the process of communicating with invitees to your events. This enhancement ensures that invitations are tied to the correct audience for each event occurrence.
New Reference Filters in Segment Builder
Beginning July 6th, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
When creating application segments, you can now filter by reference (or recommender) related information. For example, you can create a segment that filters by the recommender's name, the recommendation request date, etc. To access these additional data points, select Reference Forms in the Segment Builder, select a Program Step (i.e., reference type), then find your desired criteria. This supports more granular searches, as you can filter by any data point submitted on reference forms.
Coming Soon: Fully Redesigned Application Review Experience
Based on user feedback, we're excited to introduce a new application review experience built for efficiency, clarity, and ease of use.
This update includes a number of features designed to help you navigate and evaluate applications faster and more intuitively:
- A new Applicant Header that displays contact details and other key information.
- An interactive timeline with scrolling and zooming capabilities to make reviewing an applicant's academic history easier than ever.
- A modernized navigation menu with enhanced search, bookmarks, and easy section-to-section navigation.
- Quick access to key information, fully customizable to suit your review priorities.