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Jul 22 2026

Early Wins with Mongoose: What Real Customers Say About Getting Started

Getting started with a new student engagement platform is usually the part nobody talks about, but it’s often where teams

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How to Tell if Your Student Communication Strategy is Working

Most institutions in higher education still judge their communication strategy by one number: the open rate. That number tells you a message landed, not whether the student got help, replied, or moved forward. This piece walks through how to measure ...

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From Inbox Management to Intervention: How Conversation Data Becomes Action

Every text a student sends is more than a message. It’s a data point, and most institutions never look at it that way. This post walks through how AI Agents can turn everyday student texts into early warning signals, and how those signals can ...

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Not All AI is Built for Higher Ed: What Institutions Should Actually Demand From AI

Generic AI tools like virtual assistants, off-the-shelf chatbots, and repurposed generative AI weren’t built for the complexity of higher ed student situations. That shows when students stop engaging. AI agents in higher education do something ...

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3 Ways Institutions Lose Students After They Apply

Summer melt is one of the most studied and least solved challenges in college admissions. Students apply, get accepted, and then quietly disengage before they ever set foot on campus. This post breaks down the three post-application breakdowns that ...

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5 Signs Your Follow-Up Process is Broken

Most enrollment and student success teams aren’t failing because they don’t care. They’re failing because their follow-up process was never built to handle the volume in front of them. This post walks through five of the most ...

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Why Your Admissions Communication Plan is Failing

Most enrollment teams don’t lose prospective students to a competitor’s pitch. They lose them to silence — an unanswered question, a follow-up that came two days too late, a moment where a prospective student needed reassurance and got ...

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Admissions Melt Isn’t a Messaging Problem

Summer melt, when deposited students don’t show up in the fall, isn’t caused by silence. Most higher education institutions are already sending messages. The problem is that those messages aren’t reaching admitted students at the ...

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AI Agents in Higher Ed: What They Are and Why It Matters Now

Every institution we talk to has a team that cares deeply about students. Advisors who stay late. Recruiters who answer texts on weekends. Staff who take it personally when a student falls through the cracks. And yet — students are still falling ...

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How Institutions Prevent “Ghosting by Mistake” Across Admissions and Advising

Students don’t intentionally “ghost” institutions. Most drop-offs happen because communication is delayed, fragmented, or lost between teams. To prevent student ghosting in admissions and advising, institutions need shared visibility, faster ...

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