Division II is committed to developing students and communities by actively engaging in shared experiences. Our community engagement objective is bringing community to campus to experience Division II collegiate events.
Through community engagement, student athletes can direct the energy and spirit of winning to positively change society. There is a distinction between Community Service and Community Engagement. To learn more click here.
What’s the difference? The objective of community engagement is to build relationships by bringing the community to campus to experience Division II... » Read more
The Benedict College Athletic Department along with the SC Asthma Alliance, hosted Columbia’s First Tricycle Relays in an effort to raise awareness about the seriousness of Asthma » Read more
In order to attract more individuals to campus, the athletic department partnered with a local radio station to secure artist Josh Turner for a concert. The concert was a free concert.... » Read more
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August 23, 2010
Welcome back to school. If you are a freshman, I hope the excitement never wears off, but the nervousness definitely will. If you are returning to school, you have a great opportunity to have a meaningful and powerful impact on an incoming freshman. Offer a hand, carry a load, ask if they need help finding their way around. Offer to be a resource to get connected. It may never mean more than during the first week of classes.
If you are staff of faculty, you have been down this road for a lot of years and it is easy to forget how big a transition this is. In many ways, your reaching out with a kind gesture is a better offer of community than that coming from a fellow student because you represent the new extended community of young adults away from home for the first time.
Yes, it’s true. Students would rather connect with other students. But a very important part of college education today is to teach/remind ourselves as well as students that we need broader community beyond our family and closest friends. Those who work at colleges are in the best position – and the first week is the best of the best – to extend that hand.
