Black text reads"Over 1,800 faculty say time, institutional factors, and well-being are barriers to creating relationsuops with and among students." In the background is angular layers of opaque gray overtop a black and white image of students and faculty in motion going up and down a stairwell on a college campus.

What Are Barriers to Relationship-Rich Education? Faculty Perspectives  

Student-faculty, student-staff, and student-student relationships contribute significantly to student learning, motivation, identity development, well-being, graduation rates, and post-graduation career and civic outcomes in higher education (Mayhew et al. 2016; Felten and Lambert 2020). The effects of student-faculty interactions are particularly…