One instructor, one TV, a couple of graders and 200-600 students does not produce a sense of belonging. Competition Competition can found everywhere in the campus ecosystem. Students are competing with each other in the classrooms. Athletic contests are occurring almost on a daily basis in both formal and informal settings. Faculty members are competing for advancement, tenure slots, and grant funds.
Administrators are in constant competition internally over turf and funds.
Externally, the institution is in competition with other state institutions, systems of higher education and other departments of state government. From all perspectives, competition appears to be a major ingredient in the institution's ecosystem. You are either the winner or the loser. Winning and losing does not produce community. Cooperation not competition builds community.