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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carnegie Mellon University Boosts Alumni Responses by 170% with Mongoose
Overview Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a world-class research institution in Pittsburgh, has redefined alumni engagement through personalized, creative texting. Since October 2023, CMU’s Advancement division has used Mongoose exclusively to ...
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 ...
Minnesota State University Moorhead Boosts Enrollment with Personalized Texting
Overview Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) is committed to building strong relationships with potential students and fostering a connected campus community. In a competitive higher ed landscape, MSUM needed a communication solution that ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Role of Multi-Channel Communication in Student Success
More than one in three students considered stopping out in 2024, with 64% indicating mental health concerns as the primary reason, according to the Gallup-Lumina State of Higher Education Report. To keep struggling students enrolled and on track ...
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 ...