A campus is a small city
Schools, colleges and universities run a library, a gate, a payroll, a maintenance function and a stream of parents, vendors and visitors — usually with a lean administrative team and a great deal of paper.
What tends to break first
The library. Cataloguing, circulation, member self-service and overdue tracking are the difference between a collection that is used and one that is merely stored. Digital cataloguing makes every book, journal and digital resource findable by the people it was bought for.
The gate. Campuses have a duty of care. Knowing which parent, vendor or contractor is on the premises, and being able to produce that record afterwards, is a safety requirement before it is an administrative one. Pre-registered visits mean expected guests are known before they arrive.
Faculty and staff administration. Attendance, leave, substitutions and payroll for teaching and non-teaching staff, with the statutory filings that follow.
Facilities and equipment. Laboratories, hostels, transport and IT equipment all carry maintenance that is easy to defer until something fails during a term.