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Navigating Higher Education Challenges: Three Key Strategies for Success

At some point, every industry undergoes a significant shift. While these shifts are challenging, they often bring about opportunities for growth and meaningful change. The higher education industry is no different. Luckily, there are a few things ...

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The Hidden Power of Smart Messages in Higher Ed

Ever wondered what keeps conversations going (and students moving forward) in higher education?  Spoiler: It’s not generic batch messaging. The 2025 Mongoose Messaging Benchmark Reports show that Smart Messages empower admissions, student ...

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How Presbyterian College Supercharged Donor Engagement with Texting

Presbyterian College is proving that the right message—delivered the right way—can make all the difference. After reinstating Mongoose in 2023, this small but mighty advancement team saw giving soar, alumni reengage, and manual outreach tasks ...

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The State of Student Retention in 2025: Key Trends and Strategies

For college and university retention teams—including VPs of Student Success, Advising and Academic Support Directors, and Retention Specialists—the state of students’ tenacity at their chosen schools is a classic good-news, bad-news ...

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How Texting Helped Kettering Drive 60% Enrollment Growth

Kettering University, a private institution in Flint, Michigan known for its cooperative education model and STEM-focused programs, faced a decade of declining enrollment. But in just one year, the university achieved a dramatic ...

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How to Improve Low-Resolution Conversations: Higher Ed Messaging Benchmarks

Not all messages land the same. Student engagement benchmarks show that some conversations in higher education consistently see lower resolution rates and more neutral or even negative sentiment than others. Drawing on the latest insights from ...

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Olivet Nazarene University Achieves Historic Enrollment Growth with Mongoose

Overview Olivet Nazarene University (ONU), a private Christian institution in Illinois, turned to Mongoose in 2019 to modernize student communication and improve admissions outreach. Since then, Mongoose has played a pivotal role in ONU’s historic ...

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Lake Land College Increases Student Engagement and Participation with Mongoose

Overview Lake Land College, a two-year public institution in Illinois, serves a diverse student body with a mission of providing affordable, accessible higher education. To support this mission, the college sought to enhance its communication ...

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Every Conversation Matters: Higher Ed Engagement Learnings from Millions of Student Conversations

You don’t need more messages. You need more meaningful conversations. That’s the core takeaway from Every Conversation Matters: Learnings from Millions of Conversations with Students, a webinar hosted by Mongoose and The Chronicle of Higher ...

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Scaling Engagement Campus-Wide: The Case for Unified Communication Platforms in Higher Ed

It takes more than one department to build meaningful student and alumni relationships. From admissions and marketing to IT, student success services, and advancement, each team contributes to making students feel valued and supported throughout ...

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Introducing the Conversation Intelligence Dashboard: Deeper Insights, Smarter Engagement

See their feels. Shape their future. That’s the idea behind Mongoose’s newest product release — the Conversation Intelligence Dashboard — a major step forward in helping institutions understand not just how much they’re communicating, but ...

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