Case Study: Colgate University achieves enhanced campus life and real-time student engagement with Modo Labs

How Colgate Enhances Campus Life With a Dynamic Mobile App

Colgate University, a small liberal arts college of about 2,900 undergraduates, needed a way to better connect students, alumni and campus departments via mobile but did not have in‑house app development skills. The challenge was to deploy a campus-wide app quickly, integrate existing back-end systems, and enable targeted communication without a major development project.

Colgate partnered with Modo Labs and launched a Kurogo-based app that uses Personas and the Publisher tool so non-technical staff can build and update event modules in real time. Since its 2013 launch the app has continued to grow with hundreds of new users monthly, driven higher engagement and page views during events, enabled departmental autonomy for content updates, and positioned the university to expand features like additional Personas and push notifications.

Colgate University

David Terrazas

Program Team Lead