Strengthening Student Engagement: Insights from HBCU Campus Leaders
HBCU students bring deep pride, community, and tradition to campus life. But even on campuses with a strong sense of identity, student engagement can become harder to manage when information is spread across too many systems, apps, emails, forms, and manual workflows.
In this practitioner panel, leaders from Spelman College and Lincoln University share how they are using CampusGroups to strengthen student engagement, belonging, communication, and student success.
The conversation explores how HBCU campus leaders are creating more connected digital experiences through student engagement hubs, mobile access, orientation resources, campus-wide announcements, peer mentor workflows, events, groups, checklists, forms, reporting, and engagement dashboards.
You’ll hear real examples from campuses doing this work every day, including how Lincoln University uses Lions Connect to support new student orientation, peer mentor introductions, announcements, event visibility, and student organization workflows. You’ll also hear how Spelman College is approaching mySpelman as part of a broader student-success data narrative focused on belonging, community, well-being, and co-curricular engagement.
We’ll discuss:
✅ Creating a Central Student Engagement Hub – How HBCU leaders are reducing scattered communication by giving students one place to find orientation resources, events, announcements, groups, forms, and campus updates.
✅ Building Belonging from the First Student Touchpoint – How Lincoln University uses CampusGroups during pre-orientation and new student orientation to help students feel included before they fully arrive on campus.
✅ Meeting Students on Mobile – Why mobile access, push notifications, app-based schedules, and real-time updates matter when students are not relying on email alone.
✅ Helping Staff Do More With Less – How event tags, announcement workflows, templated communications, checklists, forms, and reporting help student affairs teams reduce manual work while keeping the student experience personal.
✅ Using Engagement Data to Tell a Stronger Student Success Story – How campuses are using attendance, registration, dashboards, surveys, and co-curricular engagement data to show the value of student affairs work to senior leaders, boards, accreditors, and campus partners.
✅ Supporting Belonging, Community, and Well-Being – How engagement technology can help institutions better understand how students are navigating campus life, where they are finding connection, and where additional support may be needed.
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