Engaging Faculty in Supporting Student Well-Being
07/01/2024
A recent Campus Drug Prevention article by Jennifer Jacobsen, MA, MPH, executive director of health and wellness at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, tackles the topic of faculty working with students on their well-being. In the article,
Jacobsen gives examples of ways that prevention practitioners can partner with faculty to support students, including:
- Working with statistics and data science faculty who may be looking for local campus health datasets surveying students and their peers;
- Coordinating shared projects or speaking opportunities with psychology faculty who teach health psychology or pharmapsychology;
- Reaching out to marketing and communications faculty who may be looking for projects to positively affect the campus community; and
- Working with pre-health faculties to reach students who are interested in learning more from practitioners.
Jacobsen also encourages practitioners to make faculty aware of substance data on their campus so that they can help promote accurate norms, challenge assumptions, and set pro-social expectancies.
Read the full article for more ideas on engaging faculty members in prevention work.