When You Are Concerned for a Student's Mental Health √ §
What to do, resources available, & supportive class design.
Location
Engineering : 102
Date & Time
March 26, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
Students are reporting record levels of stress at college campuses
across the US. Depression and anxiety increased dramatically during the
COVID 19 epidemic among young people, as did emergency room visits for
psychiatric issues. Certain groups of students may be particularly
vulnerable, especially students with minoritized identities. Students at
UMBC echo these general trends. What should faculty do when a student
reports or appears to be having a mental health crisis? What resources
are available to refer students to? How can we design course, lab, and
classroom environments to support students' mental health?
These are a few of the questions we'll take up in this interactive session, co-sponsored by the FDC and Dr. Rae Chresfield, Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellbeing in Student Affairs.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
These are a few of the questions we'll take up in this interactive session, co-sponsored by the FDC and Dr. Rae Chresfield, Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellbeing in Student Affairs.
There will be two sessions, Monday, March 24 Online via WebEx and Wednesday, March 26 in person. Please register for ONE session only. Only one session can count toward the ALIT or INNOVATE Certificate programs.
Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by Thursday, March 13. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of Thursday, March 13 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Part of the FDC Diverse Classroom Series
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
- How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
- How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
- How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
- How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
- aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
