the reason why building relationships is important is because 30% of students will drop out their first year and academic researcher Vincent Tinto says the #1 reason is because student don’t get socially integrated into the institution.
computers are taking over. soon it will be computers that are phones.
They need to find people like them
They need to find groups.
If they are ready, they need opportunities to be a leader, to self actualize by helping others.
A well known academic researcher on retention, reinforcing the idea that the connection into social life matters.