Whether it’s inside the lecture theatre or over a flat white at one their cafes, campuses are great places for students to connect, engage and feel that they belong.
But, as Dr Kay Hack, Advance HE’s Principal Advisor (Learning and Teaching) told participants at the Student Engagement Conference on 20 April, there are challenges to making campuses places that students want to hang around in.
She called for the creation of ‘sticky campuses’ and called on participants to explore ways of encouraging students to stick around on campus outside lectures and tutorials.
She said: “It about how we encourage students to stick around on campus in between formal learning opportunities.
