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Sep 17 2026

What Your CRM Can’t Do (And Why Slate Schools Still Need Mongoose)

Slate CRM manages applications and campaigns well. See how Mongoose's Shared Inboxes add the two-way conversations your team also

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Higher Ed Text Messaging Benchmarks: What 53 Million Messages Reveal About 4-Year College Engagement

TL;DR Mongoose’s 2026 State of Engagement in Higher Ed benchmark report analyzed 53.4 million messages across Text and Web Chat at 411 four-year colleges and universities, the largest higher ed text messaging dataset of its kind. The student ...

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What 646,000 Conversations Reveal About Community College Student Success

TL;DR Mongoose’s 2026 State of Engagement benchmark report analyzed 646,423 conversations and 10.7 million messages across 109 community and technical colleges over a full academic year. The data points to a structural capacity gap: advising ...

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Orientation is the First Retention Strategy

Orientation gets treated like a logistics event: forms, ID cards, a campus map, a day to check off before the semester starts. But it’s actually the first real test of the first year experience, and often the only moment your team has direct ...

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Is Your CRM Enough? How to Tell in 10 Minutes

Is your CRM enough on its own? This diagnostic walks you through six quick, honest questions to check whether your team is closing the follow-up and coordination gaps that quietly cost you enrollments and at-risk students, or just storing data while ...

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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 learn the most. This post pulls real, named moments from Mongoose customers in their first weeks and months: A SUNY ...

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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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