A majority of students say there is at least someone at their institution who knows them in a meaningful way. But a quarter aren’t sure if anyone really knows them or say that they feel “invisible,” according to a new Student Voice flash survey assessing students’ experiences of connection beyond more traditional notions of belonging.
“Every student can and should feel like they matter in college,” said Peter Felten, executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University, who’s written extensively about the importance of relationships and mattering to student success. Unlike belonging, which can depend on feeling that one fits into a particular environment, he said, mattering is rooted in feeling valued and known and having something to contribute within a given context—something that’s theoretically attainable for all students, regardless of age or any other factor that could challenge one’s sense of fitting in.
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