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

Sense of belonging is linked to student success, and faculty have a direct impact on the ability of students to thrive and persist in higher education, yet few publications address how faculty promote belonging in concrete terms. Provides concrete examples of how faculty, researchers, administrators, and students can be involved in collaborative efforts to foster and support academic belonging Combines insights from a variety of disciplines (e.g. STEM and social sciences) and an array of institutional types (e.g., small colleges and universities, 2-year and 4-year institutions, predominantly white institutions and minority serving institutions). The first book to focus on academic belonging in higher education