Word: outreaching
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...unprecedented number of voters turned out for last week’s Institute of Politics (IOP) elections, choosing candidates that plan to work more closely with Harvard’s campus groups while continuing the national outreach program the IOP began last year...
...isn’t hypothetical for Harvard students. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) receives $275,000 under the Higher Education Act, 15 percent of its annual budget, which pays for the salaries of instructors, Middle Eastern language courses, graduate teaching fellowships, conferences and CMES’s outreach program which organizes workshops and lecture courses for area schools and collects a library of books and video tapes...
...Without the funding, our outreach program would disappear,” said Assistant Director of CMES Susan M. Kahn. CMES would accept fewer graduate students into its program. Arabic language programs would not disappear, but expenditures would be cut back...
Kadison also noted that many students dismiss the common symptoms related to the illness. “When students aren’t sleeping, or they are feeling negative, they don’t think of these as signs of depression,” Kadison said. Greater outreach, like the MHAAG screening in Loker Commons, will continue to help students identify these symptoms in themselves and others and direct them to the appropriate University resources for treatment. Loker’s accessibility succeeded in attracting greater numbers than in the past; bringing mental health education to students is much more...
Harvard students best understand how to get their peers focused on mental health, and MHAAG’s intelligent planning of this outreach shows that student input will be highly valuable on the mental health task force Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has recently created. The task force should guarantee that both the Bureau of Study Counsel and UHS Mental Health Services have the necessary resources to meet student needs and that their respective counseling responsibilities are more clearly defined and differentiated...