Recommendations to Faculty for Counseling Intervention

Serious disciplinary concerns that disrupt your class are handled by the dean of student success and the security office if need be. Students in your class needing assistance with matters such as academic advising, college policies and procedures, and study skills may be referred to either counselors or advisors.

Counselors provide short-term personal counseling to students, as well as referral to community resources for longer-term counseling. A recommendation for counseling may be appropriate if you have a student who is dealing with personal issues affecting his or her general well-being and/or academic progress. Signs of such a problem may include undue anxiety or aggression in class, sudden loss of interest in class participation, uncharacteristic attendance problems, slipping grades, obvious depression, etc. Of course, students may directly share their concerns with you as well.

Emergency and Crisis Information

• Crisis/Emergency Resources

Campus-wide Guidelines and Procedures

1. Meet with the student yourself. Share your observations and concerns, and consider the student’s response. This will provide the opportunity to recommend counseling if you think it would be appropriate and helpful.
2. If the matter requires immediate attention, visit the counseling/advising Web page and contact a campus counselor: identify yourself as a professor, and ask to speak to a counselor. You may also contact the campus dean’s office (this information is also provided on the counseling/advising Web page.)
3. If the situation does not require immediate attention, print and complete a Counseling Assistance Request. Ask that the student bring it to the campus counseling office in order to make an appointment. A counselor will contact you to obtain further background for the referral. The counselor will then meet with the student and determine an appropriate course of action.
4. If you request feedback, the counselor may confirm that the student met his or her appointment; but confidentiality dictates that no details of the counselor’s conversation with the student may be shared without the student’s expressed consent.