December 13, 2024“What Works” When Building Educational Relationships? by Kassidy Puckett and Peter Felten 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…
November 5, 2024What Are Barriers to Relationship-Rich Education? Faculty Perspectives by Kassidy Puckett and Peter FeltenStudent-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…