Do Your Students Feel They Belong? Examining Sense of Belonging and Engagement

Abstract

In November 2020, NSSE released the first of five data-informed stories in Engagement Insights—Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education, detailing important and timely NSSE findings. This first release, Building a Sense of Community for All, examines the relationships between students’ sense of belonging (an addition to the 2020 & 2021 surveys) with engagement, perceived gains, and persistence. This webinar—Do Your Students Feel They Belong? Examining Sense of Belonging and Engagement— discusses the importance of students’ sense of belonging and how to examine belongingness within small populations.