Learning and Teaching For Well-Being | Resources
College brochures typically display images of happy, healthy students in diverse clusters of smiling faces. But that upbeat image does not reflect the reality for many young adults in higher education. Stress, anxiety, exhaustion, depression, and loneliness are all at record levels and continuing to rise each year. For university educators to remain effective, we must recognize the challenges that are affecting their academic performance. The purpose of this set of resources is to deepen educators' knowledge, strengthen their motivations and enrich their skills to support learners' wellbeing and benefit their personal and academic success.
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Wellbeing Resources For Educators
This collection of resources is selected to enhance educators' capabilities for supporting their learners' wellbeing. Each is selected for its scholarly rigor, applicability to university teaching, relevance to the challenges that today's college students face, and appropriateness for educators in all disciplines. This collection will grow. Please send recommendations to Patrick O'Sullivan, CTLT director.
Campus Well-Being, Healthy Spaces
Chronicle of Higher Education | Summer 2021
This collection gathers a set of news and opinion articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education to highlight the challenges facing campuses as they reopen and document the steps they are taking to ensure the health of students and employees. A selection of the articles are listed below.
- Colleges Envisioned a Near-Normal Fall Semester. Then Came the Delta Variant.
- The Pandemic May Have Permanently Altered Campuses. Here’s How.
- Academic Libraries Led Universities Into The Socially Distant Era. Now They're Planning for What’s Next.
- How to Make Mental Health a Top Priority This Fall and Beyond
- Student Success This Fall Will Depend on Faculty-Staff Cooperation
- A ‘Trauma Informed’ Return to Campus
Download the "Campus Well-Being, Healthy Spaces" collection (pdf)
Campus Mental Health and Well-being in Fall 2021 Reopening
JED FOUNDATION | August 4, 2021
This document offers guidance for campus faculty, staff and administrators based on its comprehensive public health framework. Sections offering links to a broad range of resources include:
- Engage in Strategic Planning through an Equitable Implementation Lens
- Develop Life Skills
- Promote Social Connectedness
- Identify Students at Risk
- Increase Help-Seeking Behavior
- Provide Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
- Follow Crisis Management Procedures
- Restrict Access to Potentially Lethal Means
"Campus Mental Health and Well-Being" report (online)
"Campus Mental Health and Well-Being" report (pdf)
Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education’s Greater Purposes
Donald W. Harward, Editor
"Well-being and higher education are connected, and those connections matter. They matter for the individual lives of the student and those who teach; they matter for the institution; they matter for the promise of a democratic civic society; and they matter for whether or not the unique and full promise of higher education—its greater purposes—can be advanced and realized."
Thirty-five original essays present both theoretical underpinnings and practical expressions of these connections of well-being to the work and to the identity of what it means to be a college campus. Essays range from examining what well-being means, both in the hedonic and eudaimonic traditions, to how well-being is linked to the core purposes of an institution of higher education, to how campuses can facilitate and manifest this connection in realized ways—for the better of the students and the better of the world into which we expect them to thrive and shape.
Download Table of Contents (pdf)
Download book (free) (pdf)
Civic Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being
"Liberal Education" special issue
Drawing from a national symposium convened by the Bringing Theory to Practice project, this special issue examines the interrelatedness of civic engagement, psychosocial well-being, and engaged learning.
Civic Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being (online)
Intersectionality and Well-Being
"Diversity & Democracy" special issue
As campus communities become increasingly diverse, it is crucial to build cultures in higher education that respect and support all aspects of students’ and educators’ multiple, intersecting identities. This issue of Diversity & Democracy examines how higher education institutions can take an intersectional approach to fostering individual, community, and institutional well-being.
Intersectionality and Well-Being (online)
Promoting Racial Equity in Student Mental Health: Considerations for Returning In-Person
The Steve Fund | AUGUST 24, 2021
A discussion focused on BIPOC students as they emerge from relative COVID isolation and re-enter the classroom and drawing connections between the external and internal pressures of this historical moment and BIPOC students' mental health. Panelists help to identify and promote use of tools and strategies for recreating classrooms that are safe, productive learning environments for BIPOC students.
