Ground Floor Community – Elevators Shouldn’t be Silent

Close your eyes and go back to the last time you took an elevator. How many of the strangers around you spoke? None, right? Did you all look at your phones and avoid eye contact and touching at all? Probably. That’s usually the case, and it works just fine. This morning, I walked into my […]

A Statue of Success for Your Campus Organization

A Statue of Success for Your Campus Organization

While at a professional baseball game with friends this past spring, I came across statues of historic baseball players. They were beautiful statues that depicted the legendary players’ most notable stances while they had played. While staring at these iconic figures, I asked one of my friends, “If there was to be a statue made of yourself, […]

Community Building through Campus Traditions – A Student Leader Spotlight

We are always meeting student leaders who are going the extra mile to make others feel welcome and build community culture on their campuses. We realized that one great way to learn from each other is to spotlight different students who have made an impact on the lives of their fellow students. Meet Yolanda Cobblah, a student at […]

Building Confidence Through Conflict – A Student Leader Spotlight

Building Confidence Through Conflict

We are always meeting student leaders who are going the extra mile to make others feel welcome and build community culture on their campuses. We realized that one great way to learn from each other is to spotlight different students who have made an impact on the lives of their fellow students. Meet Katherine Lesnak, a student at Randolph […]

Tutus and Student Government – A Student Leader Spotlight

We are always meeting student leaders who are going the extra mile to make others feel welcome and build community culture on their campuses. We realized that one great way to learn from each other is to spotlight different students who have made an impact on the lives of their fellow students. Meet Amairani Ayala, a student at […]

Why Community? Vacation Without Going Anywhere

Vacation Without Going Anywhere

Last week, I talked about one huge benefit of communities is the brainstorming ability. But there’s a thousand and one reasons communities are great, so let’s explore another. Communities give you those mini vacations you need to get through stress, work, and life. Take a moment and imagine your college career without the social aspect. […]

Why Community? Brainstorming

Why Community

We talk a lot about building great communities, but what about why we love communities in the first place?  While I was trying to come up with a perfect topic for today’s blog post, I had the idea to go ask someone in our coworking space to help me brainstorm a post idea around communities. And […]

3 Ways to Use Geek Culture to Build Campus Community

3 Ways to Use Geek Culture to Build Campus Community

You remember Dustin, a past intern? Well, he’s a rising student affairs star now, working at Husson University in Maine, and an avid blogger. He is also still very much involved in Swift Kick projects still. We love Dustin. Anyway, he wrote this awesome blog post connecting the “comic con” and “geek” cultures to student […]

That One Time BuzzFeed’s Opinion on College Made Me Angry

Buzzfeed

Hi friends! Sabina here, Community Manager of Swift Kick 🙂 A couple of months ago, Buzzfeed put up this post called 15 Things College Never Taught You About Life After Graduation. Most of it is about how college doesn’t really teach you about paying taxes, how to cope with the real world, and other things […]

Yes, You Can Have Positive Experiences with School Administration

You Can Have Positive Experiences with School Administration

Imagine how they feel having to tell you that…As the school year fast approaches, many of you student leaders are probably already working with the administrators and student affairs people at your college to get programs and projects running. Anyone who has ever been a student leader knows that it can be frustrating trying to […]

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