6 Exciting Things to Know About CampusGroups in 2021!
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Back to School! While students were heading back to campus in September 2021, our New York team was delighted to be together again in the office. (And down the street at our favorite taco spot.) ๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ
Happy New Year from the CG Team! โจ
As we reflect upon the past year, we want to take a moment to acknowledge how proud and grateful we are to work with so many amazing institutions and innovative campus leaders. In another challenging and unpredictable year, our campus partners have been doing amazing things to build and engage their campus communities!
Itโs truly an honor to be able to support each and every campus in the CG family. ๐
In 2021, we were delighted to develop many new features and opportunities for our campus partners to network, share success stories, ideas and strategies that help us shape the future of our product!
Read on to check out some of our top highlights of 2021! ๐
Key Engagement Stats
New Product Launches
New Mobile App Releases
Campus Success Stories
New Campuses, Team Members and User Community Events
Top Blog Posts
1) Key Engagement Stats ๐ฅ
We were thrilled to welcome 1.5 million new people (+30%) to CampusGroups this past year, including 960,000 new students, 170,000 staff and 36,000 alumni! 140,000 new officers and 2.6 million new group members got active and involved with 50,000 different groups (+26% compared to 2020).
320,000 in-person, remote and hybrid events were created in 2021 (+50% since last year), with over 3.8 million registrations and 2 million check-ins.
65 million emails were sent (+43%), almost $10 million in payments were made, and 21,000 surveys were created to engage community members who submitted 936,000 responses.
Administrators leading programming at our partner campuses saved time and resources in 2021 by streamlining approval processes including 35,000 group approvals, 88,000 event approvals, and 17,000 payment requests!
Campus engagement tools were more critical than ever in 2021! Within CampusGroups, 10,000 service hours were created (+50% vs. last year), 75,000 meetings efficiently booked, 1,000 new badges were created and 1.7 million badges earned, and over half a million checklist items checked off!
Weโre so excited to see these skyrocketing engagement numbers, and the entire CG team would like to share a big THANK YOU to all of our campus partners, admins, students, friends and colleagues for partnering with us to make it happen!
Stay tunedโฆweโve got some amazing things brewing for 2022!
2) New Product Launches ๐ฃ
At CampusGroups, we strongly believe in the importance of bringing people together and activating our collective potential. ๐ค This comes through in how we approach product development!
By working with our wonderfully creative partner campuses and analyzing market trends, our team continually strives to expand, refine, and innovate with our product. ๐
2021 was no exception and an exciting year for the CG team and its partners. Between June and November of last year we launched six new modules!
Read more about new features in our recent blog post, Customization: The Heart of Our Powerful Campus Portal!
Top Updates Introduced in 2021:
Virtual Spaces for meetings ๐ฆ
New Report Builder to customize your reporting ๐
Branded User Onboarding to customize your welcome process for students ๐จ
CampusGroups University to help your school's administrators learn how to utilize all of the campus engagement tools in your platform ๐
iOS Mobile App Redesign ๐ฒ
Custom Left Menu & Community Hubs ๐
Custom Home Pages โจ
New Group Pages and the Feed โ๏ธ
An Introduction to CampusGroups Web Accessibility โจ๏ธ
3) New Mobile App Releases ๐ฑ
This year we published 23 beautiful dedicated mobile apps, each a fully customized and curated experience for their campus community!
Create your own app! A dedicated mobile app brings a more seamless, personalized experience to your own campus. Keep your campus engaged on the go with a mobile app perfectly customized for your schoolโs unique student engagement goals!
If your school is interested in creating your own campus app, please feel welcome to contact our team to learn more!
New Mobile App Redesign
In 2021, we were thrilled to release the iOS version of our new mobile app, offering many new enhancements such as:
Groups listing, discovery and filtering
Group page and sub-pages
Events listing, calendar and filtering
Event registration page
Discover page and filtering
Directory, connections and suggestions
Profile page
Be on the lookout for our new Android app in 2022!
4) Campus Success Stories ๐ซ
We have been incredibly honored to showcase so many success stories and insights from our campus partners this past year! We heard from some of the brightest and most creative minds in higher education on successful programming in many different areas of campus life.
CampusGroups User Community members learned tips, tricks, and inspiring ideas to apply in their own programs! Looking forward, we are beyond excited to share more highlights and create new opportunities to get together, share ideas and strategies to help students connect, engage and succeed in 2022!
Check out these 2021 campus success stories!
WEBINARS:
Lessons from a Virtual Orientation (Panel Discussion): Yale University and Mercy College
Facilitating Student Organization Events with the University of Rochester
Platform Dive: Rapid Deployment, Participation Strategies, and Creative System Use at Columbia College Chicago
Best Practices for Virtual Involvement Fairs (Panel Discussion): Cornell University, Columbia Business School and UC San Diego
CAMPUSGROUPS RENDEZ-VOUS '21 CONFERENCE:
Student Engagement Strategies in the Virtual World: Macaulay Honors College
Connecting the Dots: Strategies on Increasing Campus-Wide Adoption (Panel Discussion): UC Santa Barbara, Binghamton University and KAUST
Creating a One-Stop Shop for Our Students: And Making it Mobile!: George Mason University
Limitless Functionality of CampusGroups Discovered Thru a Pandemic: Bowdoin College
BLOGS:
How To Increase Connectivity with a Multi-Hub Campus Portal: Johns Hopkins University
Successful Platform Adoption: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Engaging and Empowering College Student Leaders: Binghamton University
5 Tips for Increasing Student Involvement: Implementation of CampusGroups Student Engagement Portal: Presbyterian College
5) New Campuses, Team Members and User Community Events ๐
CampusGroups is expanding! Check out some exciting updates about the company and how we've been expanding in 2021!
We've welcomed 54 new campuses, including Stanford, MIT, LSU, University of Southern California, & James Madison University -- CampusGroups is now implemented at 22 of the top 30 national universities (USNews)!
In our User Community, we hosted 3 roundtable events bringing together representatives from 16 member campuses in the CampusGroups family to discuss hot topics such as Data & Assessment and Gamification.
We also added 18 new members to the CampusGroups team, and we will continue hiring this year! Check out our job postings and feel free to share.
6) Top Blog Posts ๐
In 2021, we explored many different avenues, ideas and strategies to support and engage students and improve student success and experiential programming.
Check out the top 5 most popular new articles!
Thanks for reading our 2021 highlights! Stay tuned for new product launches and company updates in 2022, as we have some exciting new things in the pipeline!
Are you a higher education professional leading campus life initiatives and student activities? Please drop us a line to chat with a product expert about how CampusGroups can help support your campus community and reach your student engagement goals!
