luce de builteir andrews - the university of western sydney - building a campus community
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Luce de Builteir Andrews delivered the presentation at 2014 Student Housing Forum. The 5th annual Student Housing Forum brought together university planners and managers with designers and student accommodation experts to look at the ways in which universities can provide distinctive, affordable, secure, supportive and inclusive campus living. It examined the features that distinguish best practice, considers the challenges for supply and affordability and beyond that explores the ways in which student accommodation goes beyond a residence to an environment that offers the best campus experience. For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.informa.com.au/studenthousing14TRANSCRIPT
Building Campus Communities
Luce de Buitleir Andrews Developer & Program Manager
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.
Aristotle
Principles:
1. Deliberate community building within created environs
2. A community displays a shared ethos
3. Collective action leads to more cohesive change
4. Communities provide opportunities for connection, action, acknowledgement and reward
Housing > Communities
Community Engagement
Committed
Supports/ Resources
Purpose & Renewal
Shared Basics: Organic or Constructed
Community Building Blocks
Training/ Enculturation
Governance
Security
Networking
World View
Members
Communication Culture
Financial Liability
Administration / Business Processes
Location
Peer Leadership
Virtualisation
Capacity
Initial Motivation/ Issue
Leadership Formal/Informal Visible/Invisible
Group Identification Positive/Negative
Member Identification In/Out/Open
Community Engagement Sanctioned/Non
• Social • Proximity • Institutional • Political • Cultural • Identity
Feedback Unique & Cyclical Change
Stage 1 WHY?
Stage 3 WHAT?
Stage 2 WHO?
Promulgation & Growth
• Gathering point • Uncover similarities • Develop shared values • Develop shared ethos • Develop standards • Maintain standards • Act as a corpus
Community Functions:
Initial Motivation/ Issue
Social/Proximity
Institutional
Cultural /Identity
• Happenstance • Laziness • Familiarity • Deeper sharing/joining
• Drive selected change • Deliverables • Ongoing expectations
• Building a network • Positive re-enforcement • Identity valuing
Leadership
Formal / Informal
Visible/ Invisible
Organic/ Ordained
• Hierarchy • Risk management • Locus of control
• Within/External • Who must be seen? • Ligaments - stabilise • Tendons - move
• Just in time-ism • Programmed • Resume building
Group Identity & Member Identification
In Group Out Group
Joining Vs Separating
Professional Responsibility
• John Turner’s work • F Scale • Social responsibility • Externalized focus
• Exclusivity • Privilege • Inclusion • Relevance
• Entrenched differences • Manipulated environs • Synergised futures
• Why engage? • What deliverables? • Guided or organic? • Outcome points? • Evaluations? • Cyclical development
Activation
Community Engagement
Deliberate
Paradigm Shifting
Enriching
• Constructed for positive • Enables contribution • Activates increased #s
• Social change • Issue spotlights • Feeds out to non-
members
• Novel experiences • Re-enforcing stoicism • Values openness
Outcomes & Feedback
Unique Change
Cyclical Change
Promulgation
• Impactful at local level • See ‘fruits of labour’ • Survivors of the change
• Re-enforces futures • Supports stoicism • Encourages modernity
• Building a network • Transferable expertise • Enriches campus
Community Ethos Via Aristole
Phronesis: Practical wisdom
Arete: Virtue
Eunoia: Goodwill >, Beautiful thinking
• Positive practical skills • Well developed process • Considered actions
• Shared values • Agreed base beliefs • Seeking excellence
• Product/deliverables • Open to others • Receptivity of others
• Transferability of models • Critical mass • Receptacle of interests • Resource base for novel
events • Commercial Partnerships
Outward Focus
Transferability Groups/Clubs
Residential/ Colleges
Campus
• Operational knowledge • Technology • Widens participation
• Social change • Students as activists • Communities of change • Differentiation
• Re-invigoration • Silo rupturing • Positive joining • Recruitment
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Professional Skills
Leader Cycles
Cross Discipline Teams
Cohort Specificity
Targeted Issues
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Operational Expertise
Building together...
Day 1: Orientation & enculturation
Flexibility
Working across disciplines
Inclusive culture - Q
Shared experiences
Working with faculty & alumni
TRANSITION
Building a safe culture - Q
RETENTION
Schrödinger
Superpositions (The Cat)
Quantum decoherence
Your Leadership
Skills
Objectives
Drivers
• What do you need? • Do you embrace modernity? • How can you learn? • Who else needs to learn?
• Highlight issues • Driver development • Differentiation • Retention
• Boards/Exec/Families • Recognition • Social responsibility
First Steps - Do you: 1. Host Campus wide specific interest groups/clubs 2. Provide academic enrichment to non-residents 3. Share / Promote your spaces for non-resident or
academic uses 4. Make your meal services available to non-residents 5. Use your resources to support campus entities 6. Lean in to all relevant committees 7. Attend the ‘serious’ ATAR /recruiting meetings 8. Are you acknowledged as a key retention driver by
faculty/exec?
Questions?
“I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.“
Maya Angelou
