What We're Learning About Learning: A CNDLS Podcast

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What We're Learning About Learning is a podcast about teaching and learning in higher education. With this podcast, we hope to expand and share more broadly the conversations we’re having with Georgetown students, faculty, and staff, and throw light on some of the most important issues and developments in higher education today. 

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Latest Episode

Belonging and Academic Success

Part I: What is it? Why Does it Matter?

Belonging is a concept that is getting a lot of attention across college campuses these days, perhaps due to the mental health crisis, the lingering effects of isolation and loneliness of the pandemic, the attack on and stripping away of DEI programming in many schools, the tension between inclusivity and free speech, and a renewed attention to seeing belongingness as a universal and fundamental human need. In this first of two episodes on belonging and academic success, we explore several key questions: What is the relationship between belonging and academic success? Why does it matter? How can it be measured, and what threatens it? In the second episode of this two-parter, we'll dig into how thoughtful interventions, both in and out of the classroom, can be used to foster belonging.

In this episode of What We’re Learning About Learning, you can expect to hear more about

  • The literature that demonstrates that belonging and academic success are unequivocally correlated.
  • How students’ sense of belonging varies across many dimensions such as race, class, first-generation status, and institutional context.
  • What threatens belonging
  • How to assess belonging

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What are you learning about learning? What are you wondering about learning? We’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, stories, and ideas for future episodes. You can reach us at cndls@georgetown.edu.

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