Release 5 – May 31, 2026

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New Features and Enhancements

Cross-Portal Enhancements

Liaison's suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the CAS Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the CAS Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:

API: a data integration tool.
CAS Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
CAS Liaison Analytics and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
CAS Liaison Letters: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
Living Profile: a platform where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations.
SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Add URLs as a Program Attribute

This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the next cycle. If activated, this enhancement will be available for all participating programs in the next cycle. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

If configured by your CAS, you can now add your program's website URL as a program attribute in the CAS Configuration Portal. The URL will then display as a clickable link in the CAS Applicant Portal. This enhancement allows CASs to highlight program URLs in a program's key details area.

CAS Configuration Portal

CAS Applicant Portal

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.

Application Fee Calculator

For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform, 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.

Applicants can use an application fee calculator to learn what their application fees will be before they need to submit or pay for programs. They can also use the fee calculator to see how fee waivers or application coupons would affect their total payment. This enhancement empowers applicants earlier in the application process, enabling them to better understand the potential cost of applications.

To access the fee calculator, applicants can click the My Programs button in the top-right of the application, then click Calculate Fee.

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.

AI Application Summary

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.

Outcomes is introducing an AI Application Summary. This feature is designed to help reviewers quickly review the highlights of each application.

AI Application Summaries generate concise, objective overviews of key application content, including:

Forms
References
Documents
Other Applicant Uploads

Administrators can customize the contents, brevity, and other relevant settings for the summaries. Summaries are generated on demand for each application. Note that AI Application Summaries are informational only and do not score, rank, or recommend applicants. This enhancement supports faster application triage and a more efficient review process. Review Working with AI Application Summaries to learn more.

Application-Related Contact Activity Touchpoints

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.

The Contact Activity tab now includes application-related activity, such as when an application is started, and any marketing communications tied to a specific application. To facilitate this, each application activity item is accompanied by the Application Public ID, indicating which application the activity is associated with.

Along with this enhancement, new application-related activity filters are now available. These updates provide a more complete view of each student's journey.

New Documentation for Outcomes

Please review the list of new and updated documentation, all accessible in the Liaison Outcomes Help Center.


Document	Details
Identifying Degree Types	Our Advanced Configuration Library provides guidance to help you build custom configurations in Outcomes. In our latest article, Identifying Degree Types, you'll learn to build a field that indicates whether your degree requirement has been met by each applicant.
Simplifying Federal Change: How Liaison Supports Compliance and Adaptation	Liaison is committed to supporting you as you navigate evolving legal and regulatory landscapes. This article provides guidance on how Liaison's products can support your institution's approach to recent legislative changes.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event	Date	Details
CAS 3+ Upgrade	2026	Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.
experience: LIAISON \| Baltimore	June 8–10, 2026	Set sail with us to explore new strategies, uncover trends shaping the future, and dive into real stories of transformation from peers using Liaison's solutions at experience: LIAISON, June 8–10, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. Register now!
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2026	August 2026	Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file. Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in August 2026 (subject to change). Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

Event

Date

Details

CAS 3+ Upgrade

2026

Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.

experience: LIAISON | Baltimore

June 8–10, 2026

Set sail with us to explore new strategies, uncover trends shaping the future, and dive into real stories of transformation from peers using Liaison's solutions at experience: LIAISON, June 8–10, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. Register now!

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2026

August 2026

Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in August 2026 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.