Tag: student health

How Our Students Compare: Some Data on Mental Health

the quad at UP, students walking across campus

For over fifty years the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA and their Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) have been administering surveys to incoming first-year college students at U.S. institutions of higher education. The questions they ask have evolved over time, but contain lots of interesting tidbits — ranging from the percentage of students…Continue Reading How Our Students Compare: Some Data on Mental Health

What students want you to know about mental health

a woman wearing a backpack seen from behind - with rose blossoms in the background

This post is an entry for Part III of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. If your students had a chance to tell you what they think about how faculty and academic staff matter to student mental health, what might they say? During…Continue Reading What students want you to know about mental health

Mentally Healthy: Failure (Deprivation) and Resilience?

This post is an entry for Part II of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. Many of us know the feeling: seeing that first-year student “fail” (sometimes meaning a C, but still…) their first exam, and having to suddenly confront their…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: Failure (Deprivation) and Resilience?

Intersections? How diversity, mental health, and teaching might mix

an aerial view of 2 intersecting footpaths

This post is an entry for Part III of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. Anyone paying attention to higher education in recent years is well aware of two pressing issues on regular repeat: changing perceptions of student mental health needs, and the…Continue Reading Intersections? How diversity, mental health, and teaching might mix

Who; What; Where; When; Why: A Quick Primer-Reminder on Mental Health Services for Students at UP

Orrico hall, home of U P health and counseling services

Even for faculty and academic staff paying careful attention to student mental health, it can be helpful to remind ourselves how things work at UP. So here is a quick primer (or, more hopefully, a reminder) about what is available through UP’s counseling services to students who seem to be struggling in our classes for…Continue Reading Who; What; Where; When; Why: A Quick Primer-Reminder on Mental Health Services for Students at UP