Schools adopt Resonance because someone asked. Usually that someone is a student. Here's exactly how to be that student — it takes about ten minutes.
The people who can say yes to something like this are usually the Dean of Students or the Dean of Student Life (sometimes titled Vice President for Student Affairs). Search "[your school] dean of students" — their office email is almost always public. Offices of First-Year Experience, Residential Life, and Student Wellness are great targets too.
In a big class where group work is painful? Professors can also bring Resonance to a single course — the same note works for them.
You don't need to make the whole case yourself — the template below does the heavy lifting, and the For Administrators page on this site lays out the loneliness statistics and the research results for them. Personalize the bracketed parts and hit send.
Resonance was created by UCLA psychology professor Matthew Lieberman, and he answers these emails personally at lieber@ucla.edu. Once your dean's office and Matt are talking, your job is done.
Dear Dean [Last Name], I'm a [year] at [School], and I'm writing to ask you to consider bringing Resonance to our campus. Resonance is a friendship-matching app created by UCLA psychology professor Matthew Lieberman. Students opt in, complete a 10–15 minute survey about how they see the world, and an algorithm matches them into small groups of highly compatible people. In UCLA deployments, students using Resonance reported a 41% reduction in loneliness, and the program's effect sizes on felt connection are several times larger than typical student-life interventions. Loneliness is a real issue here — for me and for a lot of people I know — and this is a concrete, low-lift, evidence-based thing our school could do about it. Participation is entirely opt-in, students join with their school email, and the university never has to share rosters or student data. There's a summary of the research and results written for administrators here: [link to the For Administrators page]. The founder, Professor Lieberman, can be reached directly at lieber@ucla.edu. Would your office be willing to take a look? Thank you for considering it, [Your name] [Year, major]
One email really can start this. Deans hear complaints all the time — what they rarely get is a student pointing at a specific, evidence-backed solution. That's what makes this note hard to ignore.
If a student sent you here: the loneliness data, the research behind Resonance, and the results from live deployments are all on one page — written for you.