Academic Belonging in Higher Education: Fostering Student Connection, Competence, and Confidence

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
About the editors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
PART I: Pedagogies of belonging
	2. Sense of belonging in the college classroom: Strategies for instructors
	3. What women want: Pedagogical approaches for promoting female students’ sense of belonging in undergraduate calculus
	4. “We’re all in”: Fostering inclusion and belonging through culturally sustaining and anti-racist pedagogy
PART II: Promoting academic belonging via the first-year seminar and department-wide interventions
	5. The first-year seminar as a vehicle for belonging and inclusion for underrepresented college students
	6. Strengthening learning communities: Belonging in a UK physics department
	7. “What’s your major?”: How one department addressed belonging and equity through a curriculum overhaul
PART III: Fostering academic belonging through integrative and supportive learning communities
	8. Building community for men of color through sense of belonging
	9. Fostering belonging in a university research community of practice
PART IV: Campus-wide strategies to address belonging at minority-serving institutions
	10. Asset-based strategies for engagement and belonging among Latinx students at an open-access, researchintensive Hispanic-Serving Institution
	11. Creating high-touch environments for belonging in touchless times: A Black college case study amid COVID-19
PART V: Exploring the opportunities and limits of belonging
	12. Reflections on the walking interview approach to examining university students’ sense of belonging
	13. Reviving the construct of “mattering” in pursuit of equity and justice in higher education: Illustrations from mentoring and partnership programs
List of contributors
Index