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 ...

Far be it from us to say notifications don’t work. In fact, the 2025 Mongoose Benchmark Reports reveal that prospective students at 4-year institutions who receive reminders and alerts are 3.7 times more likely to take key enrollment actions than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...