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“Part of a collegiate experience is having fun, and so having college bingo or ‘Zingo’ provides our students with an opportunity to engage with their peers, break up the monotony of what’s going on, and try and build virtual community.”
college hosts a website where people — stu- dents, staff and faculty — can submit questions. Every day through March and the beginning of April, Ski would send out separate e-mails, one to students and another to employees, sharing current information. The e-mails would close with FAQs, to answer the questions that came in. He only stopped the daily cycle of missives “when we started to see that the questions were dying down a bit.” Then it moved to a few times a week and then twice a week, and that’s still the frequency. “Communication was huge,” Ski noted. “[We’ve had] so many compliments from employees as well as students [about] try- ing to keep them apprised.
3) Have Fun
The college used student activity fees to sup- port remote and virtual social programming, including online music bingo, trivia contests and escape room challenges with prizes; Zoom student hangouts; lunch and learn sessions with guest speakers and caricature artists; and “5-minute cooking meal” lessons with Chef Tom Long, the director of dining services.
“Part of a collegiate experience is having fun, and so having college bingo or ‘Zingo’ among our students provides them with an opportunity to engage with their peers, break up the monotony of what’s going on, and try and build virtual community,” said Ski.
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