Mental Health on Campus I met my first suicidal student while serving as a 23-year-old instructor at a local community college. The student was calm and matter-of-fact. She saw no alternatives other than taking her life....
Mental Health Awareness Month: Providing Support in Higher Ed College ― it should be an exciting time and the ideal space for learning and personal growth, yet many of today’s students are struggling more than ever. Between recovering from an isolating...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why I’m Still Teaching (Part 2) “One day it’s fine and next it’s black” The song lyric from The Clash: “one day it’s fine and next it’s black” might describe what happened at all levels of education when...
Meeting Students’ Changing Needs in a Post-Pandemic World Take a deep breath and think back briefly on the last three years. How much collective trauma has the world experienced? Many of the college students of today, and particularly those who...
Navigating Mental Health Issues on Campus [eBook] Reading Time: < 1 minute“College is the best time in a young person’s life.” We’ve all heard it, but we know it’s truer for some students than it is for others. But how should faculty...
Dimensions of Wellbeing: Finding Your Teaching Perspective Dr. Sally Stewart, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Teaching at UBC Okanagan, School of Health and Exercise Sciences For most of us, the busy teaching part of the academic year...
How I Relax Between Semesters In academia, we often encourage our students to make time to relax, but are we listening to our own advice? Teaching is a wonderful and rewarding path, but it also comes with...
How I Incorporate Mental Health Activities Into My Course Blake Fetty is a lecturer of Spanish at the University of Central Oklahoma Research on testing anxiety shows a clear correlation between test-taking anxiety and lower test scores. In some classes,...