How do local teenagers relate to Colby students now? How do they want to interact with Colby students living in the downtown dorm?
Who was interviewed?
These responses come from 11th grade students at Waterville, Lawrence, and Winslow High Schools who were participants in an after-school SAT program on Colby’s campus.
In what ways do you interact socially with Colby students now?
How do these interactions happen outside of your school and other formal settings such as CCAK or Let’s Get Ready?
What makes these interactions positive or negative?
What are some perceptions of Colby students that you’ve developed from interacting with them?
How do you think you may interact with Colby students when they live off the hill in downtown Waterville?
What are places you may use more or less when Colby students are also using them?
How do you think the Colby students may initiate or reciprocate efforts to interact in casual social ways?
What would an enjoyable relationship between your friends and the Colby students living in the dorm look like?
Ways to build a better social relationship between young Waterville residents and Colby students?
- Offering weekend shuttle service to people looking to come on campus and participate in Colby social events like concerts and athletic events, in addition to continuing to shuttle students into Waterville
- Inviting 21+ students from other schools, such as Thomas and KVCC (which have a lot of local students), to come to on-campus pub nights or share Thursday bar nights with Colby.
- Encouraging students to go downtown independently, especially to eat or drink. Colby students should be interacting with the town and the people in it in smaller-scale, more meaningful ways rather than swarming local bars in packs one night a week.
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