The key issue for the sector is the tens of legacy systems that don't integrate with each other, often with manual spreadsheet processes that could be easily automated. Yet the big players like Oracle sell a generic CRM experience that doesn't fit well with higher education.
Are you hiring? I have 8 years of university SIS implementation & migration experience and 2 years of Edtech AI engineering experience and this is the exact problem space I want to work in.
RAM for 4-bit is 1GB per 2 billion parameters. So you will want 256GB RAM and at least one GPU. If you only have one server and one user, it's the full parameter count. (If you have multiple GPUs/servers and many users in parallel, you can shard and route it so you only need the active parameter count per GPU/server. So it's cheaper at scale.)