Building Campus Communities
Luce de Buitleir Andrews Developer & Program Manager
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.
Aristotle
Principles:
1. Deliberate community building within created environs
2. A community displays a shared ethos
3. Collective action leads to more cohesive change
4. Communities provide opportunities for connection, action, acknowledgement and reward
Housing > Communities
Community Engagement
Committed
Supports/ Resources
Purpose & Renewal
Shared Basics: Organic or Constructed
Community Building Blocks
Training/ Enculturation
Governance
Security
Networking
World View
Members
Communication Culture
Financial Liability
Administration / Business Processes
Location
Peer Leadership
Virtualisation
Capacity
Initial Motivation/ Issue
Leadership Formal/Informal Visible/Invisible
Group Identification Positive/Negative
Member Identification In/Out/Open
Community Engagement Sanctioned/Non
• Social • Proximity • Institutional • Political • Cultural • Identity
Feedback Unique & Cyclical Change
Stage 1 WHY?
Stage 3 WHAT?
Stage 2 WHO?
Promulgation & Growth
• Gathering point • Uncover similarities • Develop shared values • Develop shared ethos • Develop standards • Maintain standards • Act as a corpus
Community Functions:
Initial Motivation/ Issue
Social/Proximity
Institutional
Cultural /Identity
• Happenstance • Laziness • Familiarity • Deeper sharing/joining
• Drive selected change • Deliverables • Ongoing expectations
• Building a network • Positive re-enforcement • Identity valuing
Leadership
Formal / Informal
Visible/ Invisible
Organic/ Ordained
• Hierarchy • Risk management • Locus of control
• Within/External • Who must be seen? • Ligaments - stabilise • Tendons - move
• Just in time-ism • Programmed • Resume building
Group Identity & Member Identification
In Group Out Group
Joining Vs Separating
Professional Responsibility
• John Turner’s work • F Scale • Social responsibility • Externalized focus
• Exclusivity • Privilege • Inclusion • Relevance
• Entrenched differences • Manipulated environs • Synergised futures
• Why engage? • What deliverables? • Guided or organic? • Outcome points? • Evaluations? • Cyclical development
Activation
Community Engagement
Deliberate
Paradigm Shifting
Enriching
• Constructed for positive • Enables contribution • Activates increased #s
• Social change • Issue spotlights • Feeds out to non-
members
• Novel experiences • Re-enforcing stoicism • Values openness
Outcomes & Feedback
Unique Change
Cyclical Change
Promulgation
• Impactful at local level • See ‘fruits of labour’ • Survivors of the change
• Re-enforces futures • Supports stoicism • Encourages modernity
• Building a network • Transferable expertise • Enriches campus
Community Ethos Via Aristole
Phronesis: Practical wisdom
Arete: Virtue
Eunoia: Goodwill >, Beautiful thinking
• Positive practical skills • Well developed process • Considered actions
• Shared values • Agreed base beliefs • Seeking excellence
• Product/deliverables • Open to others • Receptivity of others
• Transferability of models • Critical mass • Receptacle of interests • Resource base for novel
events • Commercial Partnerships
Outward Focus
Transferability Groups/Clubs
Residential/ Colleges
Campus
• Operational knowledge • Technology • Widens participation
• Social change • Students as activists • Communities of change • Differentiation
• Re-invigoration • Silo rupturing • Positive joining • Recruitment
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Leader Cycles
Cross Discipline Teams
Cohort Specificity
Targeted Issues
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Building together...
Day 1: Orientation & enculturation
Flexibility
Working across disciplines
Inclusive culture - Q
Shared experiences
Working with faculty & alumni
TRANSITION
Building a safe culture - Q
RETENTION
Schrödinger
Superpositions (The Cat)
Quantum decoherence
Your Leadership
Skills
Objectives
Drivers
• What do you need? • Do you embrace modernity? • How can you learn? • Who else needs to learn?
• Highlight issues • Driver development • Differentiation • Retention
• Boards/Exec/Families • Recognition • Social responsibility
First Steps - Do you: 1. Host Campus wide specific interest groups/clubs 2. Provide academic enrichment to non-residents 3. Share / Promote your spaces for non-resident or
academic uses 4. Make your meal services available to non-residents 5. Use your resources to support campus entities 6. Lean in to all relevant committees 7. Attend the ‘serious’ ATAR /recruiting meetings 8. Are you acknowledged as a key retention driver by
faculty/exec?
Questions?
“I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.“
Maya Angelou