Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 4, 2024

How One College is Extending Mental Health Services Beyond Students Johanna Alonso Tue, 06/04/2024 - 03:00 AM Clinicians and students at Carroll University held 140 counseling appointments with community members last summer. That number will likely be higher this year. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Cerritos College A public, two-year community college, Cerritos College is located in Norwalk, California (Southeastern Los Angeles).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Colorado’s Department of Higher Education frames its basic needs efforts with a “ social determinants of student success ” lens and the California Community College System uses a “ social determinants of education ” framework. Department of Education confirmed that 8% of students experiences homelessness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama, is one of the 10 institutions chosen as finalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Wallace State, Northwest Vista College in Texas, and Moorpark College in California are three finalists noted for fostering cultures.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2025

Voices of Student Success: Integrating Mental Health Services and Counselors in Student Areas Ashley Mowreader Wed, 03/05/2025 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Ashley Mowreader

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

For example, the health services medical director led the participants through breathing exercises. Engaged teaching: A handbook for college faculty. Using the lenses of critically reflective teaching in the community college classroom. New Directions for Community Colleges , 118 , 31–38.

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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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Universities, once struggling to keep up with the surge in demand for counseling during the pandemic, have since scaled up their support services thanks to an outpouring of financial help from various nonprofits , donors, state legislatures and the federal government. “Connection is so important.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

But the majority of respondents also said that their institution was increasing efforts to address mental health; 77 percent reported that their campus had boosted its financial commitment to mental health services in the past year, and 71 percent said that more mental health resources became available to students over the past year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“[These institutions] have basically said, ‘We’re going to move in a different direction,’ and they’ve basically put counseling under health services or [another] realignment and then gotten rid of the counseling center director,” he said. It was organizational change.

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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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University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Students are beginning to voice their frustration with the “faceless bureaucracies” of community colleges as they navigate their supposed potential for a viable career prospect. Tallahassee Community College (Fla.): In January, Gov. Accelerated Nursing Programs Kirtland Community College (Mich.):

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Michele Weinzetl, a retired police officer and a consultant who works with police departments to figure out alternative response models, said such approaches could be especially impactful on college campuses, where a significant portion of students may be dealing with mental health issues. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

More from UB: Metrics and misconceptions: Why measuring outputs in higher education isn’t enough Mental health and well-being resources Sometimes great minds think alike at the same time.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

in health care. Raritan Valley Community College is starting a certificate program in social media. University of Michigan at Flint is starting a master of science in health services administration. Clarkson University is starting a B.S. Gonzaga University is starting a doctoral program in school psychology.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

The report comes at a time when universities and colleges are facing increasingly severe mental health crises on campus and searching for ways to accommodate student needs for on-campus mental health services. “Colleges can start to promote the services they have,” said Brown.

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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 18, 2023

In response to the union’s request for expanded student mental health resources, the university’s website said it “announced an approved $4.47 million plan to enhance student mental health services and continues to insist that a clause regarding student services does not belong in a faculty employment contract.”

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fifty percent of college students cited their own mental health struggles as their top stressor going into 2023, according to a survey of 1,200 students nationwide conducted by the virtual health services provider TimelyMD.

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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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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). The post Which mental health strategies should be embraced—or avoided?

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University Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

Several colleges are using data to combat historical performance equity gaps. North Carolina’s Community College System’s Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI) equips success coaches dedicated to first-year minority male students with real-time access to their grades, attendance, registration and other metrics.

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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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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. Here’s what we learned.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Building a Transfer-Friendly Environment To appeal to a broader range of students, including those looking to transfer from community colleges or other institutions, your university should promote its transfer credit policies and accelerated programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Dominican’s Care Network creates detailed care plans for each student through our partnership with NowPow , which helps connect students to local partners and resources in their home communities. 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

” The university spent two years debating the decision, Brown said, with campus health officials, researchers, parents and students weighing in. Care for students with eating disorders has long been the domain of campus counseling and health services.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The counseling center at NAU, a large university with more than 20,000 students on its main campus, introduced a triage process about two years ago and is currently operating with no wait list for the first time in at least 10 years, according to Carl Dindo, director of NAU’s counseling services.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

For example, discussions around loan forgiveness, free community college, or changes to Title IX can directly impact institutional operations. The combination of academic pressures, financial challenges, and social isolation (exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic) has contributed to a surge in mental health issues among students.

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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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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. Until then, thank you for your time.

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Parchment

JUNE 18, 2024

Marina Aminy, Executive Director of California Virtual Campus, joins us to share why the California Community College System pursued Course Sharing and why it matters for students. He was at a California community college and he was accepted to a four -year institution. Marina, welcome to the podcast.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

“There is tension,” Reshef said of his institution’s ability to provide only a bare-bones version of higher education, which includes coursework but forgoes other college “must-haves” such as mental health services, sports teams or the extensive elective course options that many institutions offer.

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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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