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Ezarik, M. (2026, June 18). Beyond belonging: Do students feel they matter on campus? Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2026/06/18/beyond-belonging-do-students-feel-they-matter
IntroductionMost of us working in student success have spent years talking about belonging—whether students feel like they fit. But a June...
By Jean Rhodes
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens this week in theaters, and audiences will watch Zendaya play Athena, the shape-shifting goddess who guides young Telemachus while his father, Odysseus, is lost at sea. Athena appears to Telemachus, played by Tom Holland, in the form of Mentor. She accompanies him, encourages him, and helps him find his way t...
By Jean Rhodes
Should mentors share students’ gender, race, major, background, or lived experience? There is no universal answer. A match matters when it helps drive the underlying process, building trust, encouraging participation, role modeling, belonging, or a credible picture of a future the mentee can imagine. Shared identity may make a mentor’s encouragement more...
Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler is professor of psychology at Elon University, where her research explores the intersections between informal learning and play in early childhood, adult guidance of children’s inquiry and discovery, and the sociocultural and global contexts that shape how people learn and mentor one another. She has directed Elon’s Honors Program, co-led a national ...
van Kessel, G., Ryan, C., Paras, L., Johnson, N., Zarif, R. Z., & Stallman, H. M. (2025). Relationship between university belonging and student outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52, 2511–2534. https...