Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Image: Addressing students’ mental health remains a top concern for higher education professionals. “I just looked at my job as trying to normalize [mental health discussions] for them, to try to get them used to somebody actually saying, ‘How are you today? Tell us about it. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

Institutions can ensure their success and development with intentional support in the areas they may be vulnerable in and by communicating these services fully. Several colleges are using data to combat historical performance equity gaps. Additionally, the University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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University Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Colleges need to leverage data-driven mental health services to cut through the noise and effectively treat their students, wages a new report by the American Council on Education (ACE). As a result, progress is disjointed. With that in mind, here is their blueprint. Develop and maintain a centralized database of evidence.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

When Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, James Madison University and Virginia’s Community Colleges identified the need for a collaborative agreement for virtual mental health services, they decided that Virginia Tech would be the ideal lead agency.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When was your overall mental health the best? College Pulse Survey, Spring 2022. A Gallup survey in fall 2021 revealed that two-thirds of community college students and an eye-popping three-fourths of bachelor’s degree students had considered leaving school in the previous six months due to emotional stress.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Isserles, a professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and author of the book The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College ( Johns Hopkins University Press , 2021), questioned whether those numbers would have been higher among students who had not sought counseling.

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EAB

MAY 5, 2023

Blogs How schools are expanding student mental health support without hiring more counselors Colleges and universities face a slew of “ pandemic ripple effects ” that pose long-term threats to student success. Stepped Care organizes mental health services in a continuum based on their intensity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

” The report, entitled “Stressed Out and Stopping Out: The Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education,” utilized data from a survey of 12,015 individuals, including current students, students who had enrolled but then withdrew from a college or university, and those who had never attended.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Asynchronous Learning While many colleges and universities seek to hold fast to the tradition of synchronous learning, from an enrollment perspective, this strategy can be unwise. Communicating Value and Career Pathways Effective enrollment strategies begin with clear and consistent messaging about outcomes. You guessed it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: To reduce the negative social stigma around mental health services among its student athlete population, the University of California, Irvine, implemented two programs to improve self-care and support the athletic community. ” How it works: Both Beyond Happy Faces and Step Up! Click here to submit.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area has issued a new report on preventing gun violence, which asserts that mental health services should be treated as a crucial part of any solution and that the root causes, namely poverty and economic insecurity, should be addressed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

“While they did send a message to the UIC community reaffirming a commitment to student mental health, they continue to ignore our concrete proposals on [student] disability assessment and including faculty in ongoing conversations about expanded mental health resources,” the union wrote. until 10 p.m.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 million plan to enhance student mental health services,” but it kept insisting “a clause regarding student services does not belong in a faculty employment contract.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 million plan to enhance student mental health services,” but it kept insisting “a clause regarding student services does not belong in a faculty employment contract.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Today, I embrace my role in helping Dominican University pursue its mission to help underresourced students achieve the opportunities that a college degree provides. A: At Dominican, we serve hundreds of first-generation college students. For families of first-generation students, the cost of college can seem insurmountable.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

But midway through the semester, the university’s dining services removed those signs, though calorie and nutritional information for food served in the dining halls can still be found online and ingredient lists are still available at the point of service. “There are no wins for the dining hall environment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Eliminating Waits But some institutions that have implemented such triage systems have greatly improved the quality and reach of their mental health care. As requests for mental health services have skyrocketed on campuses, triage systems have become a popular tool for managing demand.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

EAB’s Katie Herrmann is joined by Dr. Carl Dindo, the Director of Campus Health Services for Northern Arizona University, to discuss innovative approaches to meeting student mental health needs. Prior to and across the pandemic mental health concerns among adolescents were progressively rising. But, yeah. KH: Thank you.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

That may change—or not—depending on the outcome of UoPeople’s bid for accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), whose decision is expected this month. Colleges generally pay their faculty members, but Reshef bypassed that idea when he conceived of UoPeople.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Peer relationships, participation in campus activities, and accessibility to support services are all factors that can affect social integration. Institutional support: Students need a variety of resources to succeed in college, such as academic advising , tutoring, and mental health services.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Institutions can partner with organizations such as the Hope Center to consider intersections among learning, retention, mental health and students’ basic needs (e.g., Institutions need a digital mental health strategy as they expand their digital mental health services to external products and providers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Along the same lines, UC Riverside is preparing to implement a new team of behavioral health specialists—known as Student Well-being, Intervention and Follow-Through, or SWIFT, counselors—to respond to individuals experiencing mental health crises (although campus safety responders are also trained in de-escalation).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a faculty member, Camille developed and taught courses for her alma mater, Iona College, in the health services management graduate program. She joined Post’s School of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and served as an Associate Faculty member, teaching College to Career courses online and on campus.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Colleges and universities can emulate the initiatives at the California State University (CSU) System, which was forced to create and rely on other diversification methods when an earlier ruling imposed similar restrictions on California schools with the passage of Proposition 209. In June 2022, CSU held its first-ever Juneteenth symposium.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

You go to your student health center,” said Tifani Bartow, deputy director of operations and grants at the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. “In the post-Dobbs space, there’s a lot more interest in making sure abortion services are available all over the state,” he told Inside Higher Ed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

" As part of the agreement, Chico State said it would not include the disciplinary action in his personnel file at that time. Stachura agreed to withdraw his request for early promotion to full professor. Despite his partial suspension in 2021, Chico State named Stachura an "Outstanding Professor" for the academic year.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Will the debt forgiveness program incentivize colleges and universities to admit more students so they can hire more faculty, open more centers, and start new programs with student fees? Don’t students have a personal responsibility to pay off their debt given that they knew it was coming when they enrolled in college? Ethical Issues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ross, who is Black and has a doctorate in social work, was hired by Princeton’s health services department in part to provide a culturally sensitive approach to violence prevention and support for sexual abuse survivors. “It means that every couple of years or even less, you have to reset the needle and start over.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. This week, Palestine Legal announced it has filed an Office for Civil Rights complaint accusing the university of “anti-Palestinian racism.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Critics have questioned how Sasse emerged as the sole candidate from a pool of hundreds who presumably had more higher ed experience than the former senator, who previously served as a college president at the private Midland University in Nebraska from 2010 to 2014.

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