Connections Are Everything: Fostering Campus Cultures of Learning, Belonging, and Thriving

Overview

• Discover how networks of student relationships with faculty, staff, and peers are essential to learning, belonging, identity, retention, and thriving.

• Identify strategies campuses are employing to foster a sustained institutional culture focused on relationships, which must be nurtured by both grassroots innovations and top leadership.

• Learn about free, open-access resources to help students develop strategies for relationship building, which is too often a “hidden curriculum” for first-generation college attendees.

• Leave the session with a renewed sense of urgency about why now is the time to focus on human relationships as an institutional strategic imperative.