Redbirds Reach Out is a new opportunity from the Redbirds Keep Thriving initiative. Redbirds Reach Out allows students who are feeling overwhelmed, lonely, or worried to submit a request for a letter of support.
Redbirds Reach Out
Unit: Student Counseling Services
Body image, eating disorders, and individuals with disabilities
Eating disorders can affect anyone, and it is important for treatment specialists to be flexible and educate themselves on the needs of clients with disabilities in order to provide everyone with equitable access to the best care possible.
Multicultural Outreach Team’s Student Spotlight: Lauren Harris
“This is our school at the end of the day, so it’s important to have an elevated student voice that can also bring other students to the table,” said Lauren Harris, student body president.
Dakesa Piña honored with the Gamsky Quality of Student Life award
Dr. Dakesa Piña, staff counselor in Student Counseling Services, was recently honored with the Neal R. Gamsky Quality of Student Life award from the Division of Student Affairs.
Multicultural Outreach Team’s spring 2021 student programming
The Multicultural Outreach Team (MCOT) in Student Counseling Services is excited to announce a series of three workshops we will be offering virtually to students during the Spring 2021 semester: Voices of Discovery, Disarming Racial Microaggressions, and an Anti-Racism Workshop.
The price of the muscular ideal
When masculinity emphasizes a warped ideal of the male body and relates it to these attributes, that’s what we call the muscular ideal, problematic in the sense that it is unattainable.
MCOT News: Meeting the mental health needs of indigenous students
The struggles faced by indigenous peoples are often framed as “problems of the past,” meaning that very few Americans know anything about the struggles faced by today’s indigenous peoples.
Healthy body image during COVID-19
Struggles and conflict with body image is just one of the ways COVID-19 has affected individuals.
MCOT’s RSO Spotlight Story: Black Girl Code
We’ve brought attention to so many issues Black women face in our community and society, such as colorism, misogyny, and sexism.
MCOT: White fragility
What exactly is “white fragility”?
