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Stories from a Distance: Initiative to Combat Pandemic Isolation
The Stories from a Distance Team was an initiative that ran weekly sessions from from March-December 2020. We started this project as a way to create an online community to combat isolation and loneliness in the midst of the pandemic. This inspired many additional projects and initiatives at the Innovation Hub, which you can explore below.
KEY FINDINGS
Successful digital communities act as secure anchors for students.
Community builders can secure students in multiple ways: by creating open spaces
that are attentive to intimacy and vulnerability; by developing and reasserting a shared
community experience and history; by fostering student-centric and student/participant-led community online spaces.
Our findings play out in four themes:
- The Power of Vulnerability
- Sharing is Caring
- Empowering Student Voices
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