In university campuses, academic environment is built by various factors. How built masses and spaces are helpful to maintain the academic environment.
Higher education attainment is an imperative in order for individuals to achieve a rewarding career and to pursue a life of purpose and meaning. Educational attainment is one of the most important means to gain socioeconomic mobility for minorities in society. As the profile of the population and colleges becomes increasingly diverse, higher education must abandon antiquated notions of who can be successful in college and pursue novel knowledge that appreciates the diverse backgrounds and pathways that students use to successfully navigate college.
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Your question was about "academic" environment, but I take this term to have broad connotations (including democratic freedoms afforded to students and faculty to participate in governance in ways that promote thinking AND the importance of dialogue among members of the academic community and public as part of "public intellectualism" and co-construction of meaning via inquiry). For that reason, I wanted to recommend that you look at "Rites of Way: Politics and Poetics of Public Space" because it offers some very interesting perspectives on space and democracy http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/kingwell.shtml
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The spaces in the environment can help to make students feel a sense of belonging, such as for international students. When they see spaces that speak to their presence on campus it makes the academic environment more welcoming for them and, by extension, for their academic studies. I have attached articles that show what can happen when the time is not invested to ensure they feel a sense of belonging.
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Debrta
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