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Universities must lead in addressing the growing mental health crisis
Change requires a broad and inclusive approach to integrating wellbeing throughout campus life.
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Navigating emotional labour in grad school
This work is often overlooked and can have negative impacts if students are not properly supported.
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Leading with care: emotional labour and academic leadership
Academic leaders conduct and oversee considerable emotional labour within Canada’s universities. Care ethics approaches can inform this work.
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The grad school pressure cooker: How to keep your cool
When you feel overwhelmed, it is good practice to remind yourself about what you hoped to achieve in this academic space.
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Women in PhD programs reported more distress and disruptions than male counterparts early in the pandemic
A recently published study of doctoral students finds women and men had vastly different relationships to their work during the first wave of the pandemic, and recommends a more tailored approach to support.
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Anxiety problems are up by nearly a third among postsecondary students since 2018
Flexibility in the delivery of mental health services will be key for this school year, the co-authors of a new report say.
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New pilot project harnesses peer support to boost mental health services
The $2 million Health Canada initiative will help a handful of institutions better support students’ well-being.
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Early-career professors want changes in how tenure is evaluated in wake of pandemic effects on productivity
Researchers in a survey said they don’t want to delay their tenure review but have the criteria for it shift.
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What the pandemic taught us: mental health is a necessary condition for learning
How a course on the science of learning evolved into the importance of mental health in academic skills development.
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Student mental health in Quebec: $60M and an action plan
Everyone agrees on the need for an action plan on student mental health, but there are still concerns.
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Universities taking different approaches to preparing mental health services for return to campus this fall
Some are fine-tuning existing programs while others are planning extensive online and on-campus health promotion campaigns.
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How mental health services for students pivoted during COVID-19
Counsellors say the transition has been like 'building a plane mid-flight.'
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Cape Breton University’s new medical advisory committee confronts barriers to student health and well-being
A group of CBU administrators and local physicians aim to improve access to health care at the provincial and municipal levels, while also improving health services on campus.
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Respond, refer, report: how to sustain student mental health during the COVID-19 crisis
This model can be employed at any institution and can be used by instructors in their response to student requests for informal course accommodations.
