This morning I listened to a recent podcast on the Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast called “Relationship-rich education”. Bonni Stachowiak talked with Peter Felten and Leo Lambert about their new book: Relationship-rich education: How human connections drive success in college, due to be released soon. Felten and Lambert have both worked in significant roles in which they encourage institutions of higher education to adopt practices focused on developing a sense of community and fostering mentoring as an institutional goal. I have read widely on relational education and consider myself a relational educator, but the term ‘relationship-rich’ was new to me. The way the speakers described the concept makes it clear…