Higher Education Tech Leader Accelerating 2022 Innovations and Customer Success Investments to Help Universities Manage and Grow Global Engagement
Terra Dotta, a leading global engagement education technology provider, announced that it achieved 25% year over year growth in 2021 setting the stage for accelerated enterprise-grade solutions, customer success services and partner advancements to help higher ed institutions manage and grow global education programs.
“As both students and institutions are resuming travel and international enrollment programs to pre-Covid levels, today’s global environment requires enterprise-grade technology and customer success services to help maximize accessibility, compliance and duty of care,” said Anthony Rotoli, CEO of Terra Dotta. “We are building on Terra Dotta’s 2021 momentum to provide our growing roster of higher ed clients the technology and comprehensive support they need to cultivate student-focused global engagement programs.”
A recent Terra Dotta Voice of the Student survey of more than 140 U.S. college students indicated that 72% of students want to study abroad in 2022 to strengthen their language skills and prepare for the global workforce.
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“We are building on Terra Dotta’s 2021 momentum to provide our growing roster of higher ed clients the technology and comprehensive support they need to cultivate student-focused global engagement programs,” said Anthony Rotoli, CEO of Terra Dotta.
Terra Dotta has been advancing its solutions and innovating to meet market demand for end-to-end global engagement. This includes introducing the Terra Dotta global engagement platform, an enterprise-level integrated approach to connecting all aspects of international programming and supporting campus services. Terra Dotta has also recently introduced a next-gen Alert Traveler travel risk management solution and launched the Engage platform to help higher ed institutions streamline the communication to and management of students’ global experience opportunities.
As a result, Terra Dotta has increased its institutional footprint with dozens of new schools that chose the higher ed edtech leader to help automate and elevate their comprehensive incoming and outgoing international education programs. And a new collaboration with RiseNow, a leading client advocacy systems implementation and management consulting provider, is helping Terra Dotta fast-track the implementation of its holistic global engagement platform across higher education campuses of all sizes.
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“The Terra Dotta team is growing and we have added customer success managers and frontline staff that know the industry and can consult/meet with our customers. And we are continuing to hire in our hometown of Chapel Hill, N.C., and for remote positions to ensure we have a right-sized team in place to execute on our growth goals,” added Rotoli. Terra Dotta anticipates boosting its headcount 25% in 2022.
In 2021, Terra Dotta was honored with awards from the business and tech community as well as the higher ed industry. Terra Dotta was recognized on the Inc. 5000, the Triangle Business Journal Fast 50 and as an NCTECH EdTech finalist. In addition, Terra Dotta’s global engagement platform was named a platinum winner of Campus Technology’s 2021 New Product Award for Global Engagement, International Education and/or Study Abroad Solutions.
The company also embarked on a strong partner strategy advancing its relationships with GeoSure, Riskline, Security Exchange 24 and others to further enhance its travel risk management portfolio. These partnerships help ensure that Terra Dotta can help its higher ed institutions deliver the highest levels of duty of care for student, faculty and staff travel domestically and abroad.
Serving more than 600 colleges and universities, Terra Dotta’s cloud-based global engagement solutions facilitate cross-cultural experiences for students, faculty and staff in more than 85 countries. This includes elevating the international education experience for over 1 million travelers and virtual students annually.
