Developing Relationships with Alumni
For a small departmentin the humanities, it can be difficult to maintain the numbers needed for graduating students each semester. Dr. Rodger M. Payne, Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina—Asheville found a way to promote student involvement within his depart...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 49, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 16-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
University of North Carolina Asheville
/ Religious studies
/ Alumnus
/ Network
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AH Religious education |
| Further subjects: | B
North Carolina
B Religious Studies B Rodger Payne B University of North Carolina-Asheville B Alumni B undergraduate |
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| Summary: | For a small departmentin the humanities, it can be difficult to maintain the numbers needed for graduating students each semester. Dr. Rodger M. Payne, Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina—Asheville found a way to promote student involvement within his department that has proven beneficial well past the student’s’graduation. Despite beginning this work in 2009 following an economic recession, Payne set about increasing student engagement via social events which his department hosted, inviting both majors and minors to join these events. In so doing, he created an atmosphere where the students—who often had commitments to other majors—felt valued and formed a connection to the department that they would maintain even as alumni of UNC. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.17716 |