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May 02 2025

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

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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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What 80 Million Messages Taught Us About Higher Ed Communication in 2025

In the fast-changing world of higher ed, one thing is clear: conversations—not just messages—are what move students forward. This year, Mongoose analyzed over 80 million messages and 16 million unique conversations to uncover how colleges and ...

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What is Conversation Intelligence? An Introduction for Higher Ed Professionals

Higher ed has a communication problem. Not because institutions don’t reach out; schools send more messages than ever. The problem is how they’re sending them. Mass emails go unread. One-way texts get ignored. Purpose-built CRMs capture data, ...

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AI in Higher Ed: The Future of Enrollment Management

US colleges and universities are navigating how to use AI technology to streamline enrollment management as demand for real-time, personalized student interactions increases. Up to 57% of higher education leaders claim their institution sees AI as a ...

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Empathy and AI: Rethinking Higher Ed Conversations

AI in Higher Ed: Friend or Foe? Students today expect fast, personal, and meaningful interactions from their schools. The old playbook of mass emails and phone calls isn’t cutting it. So how do institutions scale real, human conversations when ...

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How Conversation Intelligence Addresses the Enrollment Cliff

The pool of high school graduates is expected to shrink by 13% through 2041, leaving higher education institutions competing for a much smaller population of traditional college students. When every conversation matters, using the right Conversation ...

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