{"id":415,"date":"2025-07-14T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oraclerealestategroup.com\/higher-ed-advisory\/?p=415"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:25:46","slug":"relationship-between-communication-and-student-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oraclerealestategroup.com\/higher-ed-advisory\/blogpost\/relationship-between-communication-and-student-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intrical Relationship Between Communication and Student Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The intrical relationship between communication and student engagement. Communication is the cornerstone behind every successful campus climate. Effective communication in higher education institutions of learning can help increase student engagement, student success, and student retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what happens when communication channels are blocked? Higher education institutions suffer when communication channels are muted or nonexistent. Poor communication systems can leave students, faculty, and staff feeling disconnected from the campus and the overall community. Which in turn can lead to high poor customer service and a decrease in student satisfaction and retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why robust campus communication plans need to include not only mass communication touch points to use to relay messages to the campus community but strategic well-identified channels for that purpose. Any communication plan should also include policies for student, faculty, and staff comments and should detail how each administration will a forum for community dialogue and discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To effectively optimize institutional communication, leadership must manage policies surrounding communication. Are the current policies effective? If not, what must change? If no formal policies are in place, how do you best approach creating them? Good communication begins with leadership creating clear channels. Communication channels within all departments from the bottom up. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To effectively nurture communication policies and procedures, leadership should examine student, interdepartmental, administrative, and campus-wide communication channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How the entire administrative team communicates is perhaps the single most important piece of the campus communication puzzle. If campus leaders are ineffective communicators, the entire communication climate on campus will suffer. Too often, administrators are isolated from faculty, staff, and students \u2013 the very people they are there to serve. Instead of instituting an open-door policy, administrators often let the business of academia dictate a closed-door and hard-to-reach atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, administrators should institute an open-door policy, or something similar, that offers faculty and students access to campus leadership. They should also not only allow for, but plan on, demonstrations of free speech on campus, and they should have policies in place for a healthy cycle of communicative feedback with all campus stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effective administrative communication should include\u2026  <\/p>\n\n\n\n