Faculty on the university committee discussed challenges to student wellbeing this academic year amidst executive orders and changing student involvement in a meeting at Bascom Hall Monday.
The key issue at Monday’s meeting was how to best serve students in a post-COVID landscape in both their educational and personal development. Professor Bob Mathieu described this as acknowledging students both as academics and people, a task he feels faculty is not equipped to tackle.
“We aren’t prepared to deal with them as people,” Mathieu said. “Students come into our offices many times not looking for that help, but needing that help.”…