Our desire is to see students empowered to reach out to their classmates. Read this story from Domenic, our staff at Webster University, with an example of this on campus in St Louis:
Two weeks ago, my students threw together an outreach for the Art department on Webster’s campus and called it, “Ping Pong Brunch.” We got a huge ping pong table, tons of food, and invited the entire art department and everyone showed up! Students, professors, and the chair of the Art department got together to eat, relax, and played each other in some intense games of ping pong. Later, the chair of the art department came up to me and said, “I’ve really appreciated you working with the students to build community here. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, but didn’t know how to do it.”
The best part is that I only went to the store with another staff to pick up the food. The students had the vision, had the goal, did the advertisements, made the connections, and served their fellow classmates. The event was only intended to go from 11am-12:30pm and ended up going all the way until 3pm. Afterwards, my sister invited one of her friends at the brunch to do a GIG with her and she said yes!