RELATIONSHIP-RICH EDUCATION: HOW HUMAN CONNECTIONS DRIVE SUCCESS IN COLLEGE
What is it?
What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships.
What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships.
Who is it for?
Ultimately, the book is an invitation - and a challenge- for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education.
Ultimately, the book is an invitation - and a challenge- for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education.
What can it do?
Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.
Relationship-Rich Education provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts.
Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.
Relationship-Rich Education provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts.