CAMPUSESP FOR FAMILY COMMUNICATION
Your complete AI-powered
family engagement strategy.
CAMPUSESP FOR FAMILY COMMUNICATION
Everything you need to make everything easier.
Everything you need to make everything easier.
92% of families say CampusESP helps them better support their student’s success.
Trusted by 450+ colleges and universities and 7 million parents each year.
Trusted by 450+ colleges and universities and 7 million parents each year.
Family expectations changed.
Your resources didn’t.
Family expectations changed. Your resources didn’t.
Today’s families expect regular, personalized communication — especially during transitions and challenges. 77% now expect to hear from institutions weekly.
But traditional systems were built for a different era.
CRMs
weren’t built for
parents.
Email tools
weren’t built for
scale.
Websites
weren’t built for
engagement.
So you’re expected to do more with less — while expectations keep rising.
CampusESP bridges the gap.
The family engagement system higher ed was missing.
The family engagement system higher ed was missing.
One place to manage communication, content, engagement, and insight.
Purpose-built for family engagement in higher ed.
One message. Every channel.
Write it once. Share it everywhere families engage — email, text, and the family portal — with targeting and personalization handled automatically, based on language, student stage, and family profile.
Penn State reaches over 100,000 parents each week with about one hour of staff time.
AI-powered content that
works like a teammate.
Create and personalize communication in minutes, turning existing messages into texts, portal posts, or translated versions without starting from scratch.
UMBC reduced family communication content creation time by 80%. Read more →
Streamlined events and check-ins.
Create branded event forms, manage registration, check families in with QR codes, and sell tickets — all in one place, with no IT support required.
University of Cincinnati increased Family Weekend registrations by 44%. Read more →
Your family engagement
system of record.
Build a fully configurable family database that collects and organizes the information you need. Surveys and onboarding forms keep contact details and preferences current, helping you strengthen family relationships and better support students.
UNLV used CampusESP to create a unified database of nearly 40,000 parents.
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CampusESP is more than just software.
CampusESP is more than just software.
You don’t have to be an IT expert.
We guide your implementation, provide unlimited training and support, and assign a dedicated account manager to your campus. Our team has helped over 450 colleges launch and scale family engagement.
Live in 3 weeks.
You don’t have to create everything.
Our CampusESP Content Network™ delivers ready-to-use content directly into your platform every week. Content is personalized for your school based on your input. You simply review, adjust, and approve.
~1 hour each week to maintain.
This works.
You’ll be able to prove it.
CampusESP shows what’s working, highlighting your most engaged families, most-read content, and participation across key populations. Monthly insight reports summarize results and recommendations, helping your team measure impact and demonstrate ROI.
UAB found a 16-point retention increase for students with moderate to high family engagement.
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Over 450 colleges love partnering with CampusESP.
Over 450 colleges love partnering with CampusESP.
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"It's amazing how much time CampusESP has saved us. It's tremendous in terms of the amount of communication we're able to do with parents and families."
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Nancy Stephens, M.S. Ed.
Parent and Family Communications Manager
University of Kentucky -
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"Family engagement is a critical part of student success and is not going away. CampusESP provides the perfect mechanism to deliver that outcome."
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Subir Sahu, PhD
Senior Vice President for Student Success
Drexel University -
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" We were able to double our attendance and numbers for our family weekend. So those numbers alone make CampusESP worth the investment."
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Jerrell Sherman
Associate Dean of Students
University of Houston -
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"We needed a one-stop-shop, and that's what CampusESP does. We don't have to advertise as much in other ways, because most of our families use CampusESP."
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Nassim Nozartash
Associate Director of Orientation & Enrollment Programs
University of North Carolina at Charlotte -
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"CampusESP automatically takes my work to the next level. I have a team that can see what other campuses are doing and show me how similar campuses are seeing success."
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Heather Deere
Assistant Director of Parent & Family Programs
William & Mary -
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"CampusESP has allowed us to expand our network and our reach. We previously had around 5,000 family subscribers on a good day – we now have about 20,000 subscribers that we can target for outreach."
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Fritzie Charne-Merriwether
Associate Vice President for Administration and Chief of Staff
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" When you connect with CampusESP, it's like you have an entire team that helps you become a better connector with families."
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Amy Swank
Senior Director of Parent and Family Engagement and Philanthropy
University of Oregon -
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“AI-powered content is a game changer when it comes to saving time and brain power! I just put a one-sentence prompt into the AI editor, and all the content is done for me. I use it to send emails in both Spanish and English.”
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Eva Reyes
Director of Parent and Family Relations
William Paterson University -
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“I went on vacation for three weeks and the parent portal ran itself. I scheduled posts ahead, the newsletters sent themselves, and I didn’t have to think about a thing.”
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Cyndy Hill
Director of Parent Programs
Penn State University -
![A light brown-skinned woman with red-brown short hair smiles at the camera in a blue shirt in front of a yellow background above the Kennesaw State University name and logo.]()
"Intentional engagement of families is essential for student success. When we keep families and supporters informed through CampusESP, we can significantly enhance student retention."
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Dr. Gloria Laureano, Ed.D.
Senior Vice President of Student Affairs
Kennesaw State University -
![A white woman with shoulder length brunette hair wears a brown and white shirt and necklace smiles at the camera in front of a blue background above The University of Mississippi name and logo.]()
“CampusESP provided a one-stop-shop for me to manage all aspects of registration for Fall Family Weekend. What once took an entire week working with campus IT now takes about three minutes with CampusESP.”
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Merrill Magruder
Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Family Engagement
University of Mississippi -
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“You can not afford to not use CampusESP. I have not been able to find a more effective way to disseminate information, build community, and create a culture of completion among first-generation college students than with this tool.”
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Javier Flores
Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
Texas Woman's University
Family engagement isn’t optional anymore.
Family engagement isn’t optional anymore.
Expectations are rising, and everyone is being asked to do more with less.
Sure, you could try to stitch this together with Constant Contact, Facebook groups, Cvent, spreadsheets, and a lot of IT support.
Or you could use a system built for family engagement from the start.
Less risk. More high fives. Up and running in 3 weeks.
Less risk. More high fives. Up and running in 3 weeks.
Ready to learn more?
Talk with one of our family engagement experts.