Adjusting to university is, for many students, one of the most intensive learning curves they've experienced in their lives to date. Understanding the challenges and issues many students face, as well as constructive and supportive ways to help students resolve them, can make an enormous difference in student success.
This workshop covers key issues, resources and approaches, and we reflect on ways we can work together for an ever-more supportive, empathetic and accountable campus environment.
Learning objectives
Participants will
- Learn about common student challenges, demographic shifts, and student transition theory.
- Discuss student interactions and reducing barriers for students to seek help, with an additional focus on equity-deserving students and intersectionality.
- Discuss how to create a supportive and developmental campus environment, and approaches to addressing student issues, to help empower students towards problem-solving.
When working with students, conflicts can arise over interactions, service, grades and more. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will have the tools to identify potential conflict situations, understand underlying issues, raise concerns about behaviour, and address and mediate conflict using a solutions-based approach.
Learning objectives
Participants will
- Discuss conflict involving students, and learn about underlying issues that can cause conflict, communication barriers, how to raise a concern, and active listening.
- Explore how conflicts can escalate and conflict dynamics.
- Learn the basics of facilitated dialogue and mediation, and talk about educational and restorative approaches to behaviour issues.
Self-paced online
Duration: 20-25 minutes
Thousands of students in Canada face mental health concerns every year, and mental health concerns continue to become more and more common on Canadian campuses. This course prepares you to support students on your campus who may be living with mental health concerns.
Learning aims
Participants will learn to
- Recognize indicators that someone may be experiencing mental health concerns.
- Respond appropriately to someone who needs support, based on the indicators present and your relationship with them.
- Refer someone to mental health supports and services in an appropriate way.
- Describe best practices for reflecting after interacting with someone who may be upset or distressed.
Registration
This mini-course was developed by the Council of Ontario Universities, Brock University, and the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, which is funded by the Ontario Government.
Learn more and register at morefeetontheground.ca.
Mount Allison strives to be an inclusive environment for individuals of all backgrounds. This will delve into the fundamentals of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). We will discuss types of challenges faced by equity-deserving communities, learn about individual and systemic barriers, explore allyship, and workshop practices and tools you can use to help create inclusivity within our campus community.
This session provides an overview of Mount Allison policies and processes that are in place to support students and staff and to promote a safe campus community. These include the Student Code of Community Standards and Accountability, Accommodation processes, the Senate Policy on Students with Disabilities, the Student of Concern Case Team, and the Sexualized Violence Policy.
Topics will focus on identifying students in difficulty, distress, or crisis, and how to approach each situation. This includes raising concerns, active listening, and directing students to ensure they are provided with appropriate information. We cover paths available to address student behaviour and concerns and how to navigate boundaries. We also cover privacy issues and how to communicate sensitive information within the legislative and university policy setting.
