[Invitation] Building Community Across Disciplines

[Jill McSweeney-Flaherty]

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you to everyone who attended our ISSOTL presentation which shared preliminary results on our work exploring how faculty build community in their courses! We left feeling as though this work is more important than every, and that how we define and build community is much more contextual and disciplinary dependent than we anticipated!

As we noted in that session, we are still looking to recruit more individuals to participate in our survey. 

We are continuing to invite colleagues across higher education (and please feel free to share with your own peers!) to participate in a 15 minute online survey on how you create community in your classroom.  Your responses will be anonymous, and no identifying information will be collected. To thank you for your time, you’ll have the option to enter a drawing for one of three $15.00 gift cards upon completing the survey.

If you’re interested in participating, please review the informed consent form and access the survey through the link below:

[SURVEY LINK]

Please complete the survey by December 12, 2025 . If you have any questions about the study or the survey process, feel free to reach out to Marna K Winter at mwin...@elon.edu.

In addition, we are looking for individuals who also might be interested in engaging in an online interview on this topic (participants would be compensated for their time!) If this is of interest to you, please reach out to myself, Marna, or Jen (CC'd on this email)!

Thank you!