Word: peering
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...University make student mental health a primary concern when students won’t even do it themselves. While there should be no complacency in advocating for better care and policies on the side of the administration, students must also help themselves by accessing resources already in place, providing peer support, and making mental health a priority in daily habits...
...Mental Health Services, according to a history of science and psychology thesis by Judy Z. Herbstman ’07. This may be in large part due to understaffing, but other resources on campus are drastically underutilized as well. It often seems as if there are more peer counselors than students using peer counseling services. Students rarely approach proctors and tutors about issues of mental and emotional health. Yes, formal training for these positions on such issues should be decidedly augmented, but it is hard to justify such training when students do not approach people in those positions for help...
...their size and may be able to expand their size if they are able to woo a donor to endow a chair. But most of the money FAS is pouring into the expansion will, according to Knowles, go towards hiring new scientists. Knowles justifies this by comparing Harvard to peer institutions, which reveals that Harvard lags behind in science hires...
...interests in giving students information about and access to various ethnic groups, while neither giving a false impression of our campus nor artificially herding minority students into a separate community, as a separate prefrosh weekend might do.These weekends, which are used by several of Harvard’s peer institutions, are not only too extreme a measure, but also undermine the ultimate goal of such initiatives. Our endorsement of the UMRP’s efforts stems from the belief that Harvard is strengthened by having a diverse and integrated student body. As such, we object to any program that creates...
...kinds of situations. Assigning mental health clinicians to freshmen like primary care physicians and requiring a check-in during freshman year could go a long way toward dispelling rumors about what it means to use mental health resources, and make it easier for students to make their first contact. Peer counseling groups should be allowed to present to proctor groups (permitted until the Class of 2007 were freshmen) to describe peer counseling and to give peer counseling groups a chance to explain why people call. Educating tutors about which resources are available and what they’re good...