Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
10-1-2001
Abstract
One of higher education’s crowning achievements is that colleges and universities are currently educating many groups of people who have been denied access to this resource in the past. A growing percentage of the new population of students arrives on campus with unique mental health needs, which until now campuses have been largely unprepared to accommodate. This new student profile may be more familiar to Student Affairs’ offices, but the educational implications extend to the whole campus. Members of NERCHE’s Student Affairs Think Tank discussed this topic at one of their meetings and offer the following insights.
Recommended Citation
New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, "Brief 9: Practices and Policies for Dealing with Students with Mental Health Issues" (2001). New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications. 33.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nerche_pubs/33
Included in
Disability and Equity in Education Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Other Mental and Social Health Commons
Comments
The following Brief from the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is a distillation of the work by members of NERCHE's think tanks and projects from a wide range of institutions. NERCHE Briefs emphasize policy implications and action agendas from the point of view of the people who tackle the most compelling issues in higher education in their daily work lives. With support from the Ford Foundation, NERCHE disseminates these pieces to a targeted audience of higher education leaders and media contacts. The Briefs are designed to add critical information and essential voices to the development of higher education policies and the improvement of practice at colleges and universities.