Jesse Stommel begins by taking an equity-based approach to community: "We should begin our efforts toward building community by designing for the students who need that community most, the ones most likely to have been feeling isolated even before the pandemic: disabled students, chronically ill students, students of color, queer students, and students facing housing and food-insecurity." This means a definition of community that goes well beyond the needs of an individual class and focuses on student-to-student connection and a range of student supports. This view extends the campus community into the wider community, is based on recognizing wider social realities, and "will depend on our willingness to continue feeling joy, having epiphanies, asking hard questions, and sharing our curiosity with one another."
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