Resource:How to engage students on a small campus

INTRODUCTION

This how-to guide is based off an interview with Daricia Wilkinson and Ykeshia Zamore, from the University of the Virgin Islands, who founded a student organization that focused on interdisciplinary collaboration. Inspiring innovation and entrepreneurship in a student body can be difficult, but the problems are abundantly clear when on a small campus. With a small student body, usually a spirit of camaraderie and excitement can be harder to find, with the idea of school spirit nearly non existent. This is not to say however that it is impossible, just more difficult, to engage students on smaller campuses.