Purpose, Identity, Values

• Make the values of HPL and its community more visible in the course. Strive to communicate them openly to its members at least once during the course, and to embed them in its content and structures wherever possible.

• Find ways to explicitly encourage community and community involvement. This could be in the form of a statement in M0 that people who are proactive and set aside time to engage in the community also get the most out of it.

• Understand and leverage students' curiosity to learn more about one another prior to HGSE in designing the activities and offerings of the course

Member Identity and Success Definition

• Grant students ownership of the community as befits their role as valued community contributors. This doesn’t mean they should control everything, but rather that they should be cognizant, and course structures should reflect, the reality that the community emanates from them, not from the offerings of the course.

• Commit to a success definition that takes responsibility for supporting all students in the course, regardless of background, and meeting them where they are at. Student experience of community is the surest metric of course community success.

• Create better supports for diversity

Brand: Tone, Vision, Language

• Use the language of co-ownership to make students feel like welcome contributors to the community

• Invite students into the discussion about the course community vision

• Use external communication and brand to create an enduring space for the stories and successes of the HPL Community