• Identify the specific moments in classrooms, advising, orientation, and everyday interactions where belonging is created or undermined.
• Distinguish performative inclusion from practices that actually build connection.
• Leave with 2–3 practical shifts to try this semester.

Seminar Description:  

Belonging is often treated as an abstract campus culture goal — but for students, it's built or broken in the small, daily interactions they have with us: an advising appointment, an orientation moment, a conduct conversation, a hallway check-in. This session moves belonging from theory to practice, giving faculty and staff concrete, low-lift ways to build connection into the touchpoints they already have with students — no extra budget or program required.