Lecture hall of students with white walls and geometric design. text reads: While faculty-student relationships are difficult to scale, connecting students purposefully with each other is possible even in the largest enrollment classes."

“What Works” When Building Educational Relationships? 

As we noted in our previous post in this two-part analysis (Puckett and Felten 2024), student-faculty and student-student relationships contribute significantly to learning, motivation, identity development, well-being, and graduation rates in higher education (Felten and Lambert 2020). The positive effects…