Grinnell bans students from counseling services after missing one appointment

dan100991
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:02:45 +0000

Interesting article in the S&B this week: http://www.thesandb.com/opinion/disappointment-in-counseling-services.html/comment-page-1#comment-69285

I don’t have much to add to what is written already. I think one of the commenters sums the issue up pretty well:

“It seems like every single week we hear about something new that goes wrong with some department of student affairs. Last week, it was that they lied to students about the availability of off-campus housing approval, causing students to lose a ton of money after signing a lease on absolutely false information given by the office. Before that, it was security calling the police on students smoking marijuana despite their continued lip service to self-gov.
This tops all of them though. Refusing students psychiatric services on campus is nuts. Many students have issues such as depression (or even suicidal thoughts), substance abuse, eating disorders, etc that absolutely need to be addressed or will get worse. We can think of many tragedies that have happened at educational institutions that psychiatric services may have prevented.
It seems like this lack of concern for students may stem from the attitudes of the people at the top of the department most responsible for caring for students. The college needs to change this if it wants to remain a place that values respect between the institution and its students. It can start by removing those at the top of student affairs.”