“Running a Project-Based Intro Fellowship” by Alistair Bugg

This past term EA Northeastern's London group revamped our Arete (ie. intro) fellowship in a few significant ways. This is how it went!(tldr: We added a project into the intro fellowship and invested more time into personal relationships with fellows. We had lower drop out rates and higher engagement.[1] You can see this google sheet if you want the numbers.) If you want to compare our experience to yours here is some context: Our group is 3 years old. There's appx. 2000 students at the London campus, all inclusive. Appx. 1250 of those at any given time are freshmen studying abroad from Boston. The primary problems we had last year were: Attendance drop off. ‘Apprehensive’ participation in meetings. Low engagement with the group (& EA) outside of the fellowship. The following are changes that we made from last year to address them. We Added a [...] ---Outline:(01:10) We Added a Project(04:53) We Designed New Marketing Materials(05:56) We Made more Friends (awww...)(09:42) We Improved our Final EventThe original text contained 7 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 20th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7ge6EPWJHXPyAGg62/running-a-project-based-intro-fellowship --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.