Tom Krieglstein uses a dance-floor metaphor to show how colleges can build connected student communities in four steps: assess engagement levels, pair students with near-peers who share interests, facilitate the connection, then step back. He urges campuses to start now, not wait until next year.
And then unlike the order and control and the B dance, the A dance, folk, they look at the screen and they see chaos. How do you go from a bad dance to a good dance or a bad campus to a good campus where your students are socially integrated and they feel connected to the institution? Well, the good news is there's four simple steps, and it turns into a dance that looks like this. This is the idea that dance floors and college campuses actually operate the exact same way. Find out what a student's level of engagement is, connect them with a near peer around, a shared interest, and then get out of the way, because it's not about you. It's about them connecting with each other. So here's what I want to leave you with. What are you going to do back on your campus to connect more people together so that they feel socially integrated? But I said, you know what, we shouldn't wait until we get back to campus. We should start this process right now, right here at acpa.
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