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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 ...

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How Texting Helped Kettering Drive 60% Enrollment Growth

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 ...

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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 lower resolution rates and more neutral or even negative sentiment than others. Drawing on the latest insights from ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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