Community Resources
A Matter of Degrees
Date: February 2, 2010
Author: Brian Thevenot
How much higher education does it take to improve quality of life?
Reaching Students Who Don’t Report Depression, Inside Higher ED.
Date: May 29, 2009
Author: Scott Jaschik
Among the greatest frustrations of campus mental health professionals is that those who need help the most may never seek out services that are available…
Henry Chung, assistant vice president for student health at New York University, was reviewing data showing that large majorities of college students showing signs of depression - even signs serious enough to suggest that they may be prone to suicide - never seek counseling help of any kind. At the…
College Student Retention: Instrument Validation and Value
Date: March, 2008
Author: Kenneth Coll, Roger Stewart
“Retention is a long-standing challenge that institutions continue to address (Braxton, Bray, & Berger, 2000). Counseling can play an important role in this process; but because of heavy case loads, college student counselors need efficient ways to identify students at-risk and ways to partner with professional schools and academic departments so they, too, can help with retention issues (Archer & Cooper, 1999).”
The Troubled Student and Campus Violence: New Approaches, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Date: November 14, 2008
Author: Elizabeth Stone
[Members of] faculty, student affairs, counseling, security [are] members of different cultures. We talk different talk, work different hours, and go to different meetings. Our students are supposed to be our shared responsibility…
Our separateness and our blindness, or at least our blinkered vision, have now been proven to be dangerous to our students. Analyses of what went wrong at Virginia Tech concluded that members of that institution, all incarcerated in their own silos, had…