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...We’re adding these evening appointments in response to requests from students, staff and the Mental Health Task Force for evening services that don’t conflict with class, lab or work schedules. We know that most people in the MIT community have extraordinarily busy schedules, and we are going to make it easier for students and staff to get the care they need, when they need it,” Medical Director Dr. William Kettyle said in a press release...
Arnold R. Henderson Jr., associate dean and section head of counseling and support services at MIT and a task force member, is supportive of the new programs...
...Indeed, MIT has not accepted all the report’s recommendations. The task force suggested adding between six and 10 more full-time mental health staffers. MIT has hired four additional resident life staffers, who will visit dorms and other living areas to supplement the work of graduate tutors and masters...
...student survey at MIT last spring, 74 percent of respondents reported having had a mental problem that interfered with their daily lives, though only 28 percent reported having used the mental health resources the institute provided. Overall, 11 percent of students use the mental health resources at MIT, an increase from 7 percent a few years...
...report quoted one student who wrote that “asking for help is not easy for the typical MIT student...