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B E HIND THE STORY
Every Friday, Daily staffers will give a behind the scenes look at
one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA freshman Jasmin Lee
and sophomore Calder Lewis on their three-part series about
University mental health services:
“Over break, we interviewed multiple students from all over the
country who we asked from social media who would be interested in
talking about our material. We got their opinions about the mental
health resources at their schools and colleges. We also got U-M
students talking about CAPS and other resources that they’ve used
here.”
Jasmin Lee
“The biggest roadblock that we had was figuring out the angle of the
first story. We started out with a huge, basically 6,000-word piece,
and we ended up splitting it into three separate stories.”
Calder Lewis
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QUOTE OF THE WE E K
“
For generations, the Michigan Union has been a place
where students lead, a place of activism and a place of
student-driven change that has made us a better and more
important University. It’s my hope that the Union encourages
students from all different backgrounds and academic
disciplines to interact and take advantage of the outstanding
breadth and diversity of our great University.”
University President Mark Schlissel at the Union opening Monday afternoon
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Faculty panel to set academic
agenda for presidential debate
2020 theme semester ‘Debate and Democracy’ aims to encourage student civic engagement
JULIA FORREST
Daily Staff Reporter
The Presidential Debate
Academic
Advisory
Committee, a new faculty
committee, will create a
“Democracy
and
Debate”
themed academic semester
for Fall 2020 ahead of the
2020 presidential debate.
The
committee
plans
to
incorporate
various
debate-centered
academic
events in all 19 schools and
colleges
throughout
the
University in order to make
students
more
civically
engaged. Additionally, the
committee is encouraging
each
school
and
college
within the University to host
discussions, lecture series
and other programs centered
around
the
debate
and
civically engaging topics.
Angela
Dillard,
the
committee
chair
and
a
professor of Afroamerican
and African studies, spoke
to The Daily about the goals
and plans of the committee
and the 2020 semester.
“Ideally,
the
theme
semester
offerings
will
highlight
the
U-M
disciplinary
and
interdisciplinary strengths,”
Dillard said. “The theme
semester also provides a
forum for exploration and
discussion of a range of
issues at play during the
2020 election season, from
health care and economic
mobility to climate change,
immigration, education and
mass incarceration.”
Dillard
expressed
how
important
it
will
be
for
students
from
interdisciplinary
backgrounds to participate
in the activities.
“In this moment in U.S.
politics, the most pressing
issues
that
confront
us
as a nation are radically
interdisciplinary,”
Dillard
said.
“Hence,
solutions
will need to span academic
disciplines,
will
need
to
be responsive to citizens
and
other
members
of
communities, will need to
be grounded in evidence and
open to inquiry, debate and
the free exchange of ideas
in ways that incorporate a
diversity of opinions and
lived realities.”
Another member of the
committee, Jenna Bednar,
professor of political science,
spoke on the committee’s
efforts to get student input
on the academic agenda.
“We’re working with our
student
groups
to
make
sure that we are able to
incorporate as many student
perspectives
as
possible
into our decision making,”
Bednar
said.
“They’re
literally at the core of our
decision-making process.”
One of the groups the
committee is working with
is
the
Central
Student
Government. Public Policy
senior and CSG President,
Ben
Gerstein,
is
one
of
the student leaders on the
core
committee,
a
unit
of
the
PDAAC
working
with various departments
involved with the debate. He
said students have reacted
positively to the idea of a
themed semester.
“I think it presents a
unique
opportunity
for
curricula from faculty who
are putting together this
with intention and the idea
of making this an experience
that not only do our students
get
to
maximize
their
ability to experience what’s
occurring when the debate is
actually on campus, but have
some sort of contextualized
understanding,”
Gerstein
said.
Bednar said the committee
will continue to design and
prepare the themed semester
with
student
voices
and
campus resources in mind.
“It’s the first time the
University’s
hosted
one
of these debates, and so I
hope that students feel a lot
of pride in hosting and in
having the world tuned into
the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor,” Bednar said. “I
hope that it gives (students)
an opportunity to reflect on
their own role as a citizen in
our democracy.”
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“As part of our counseling
services, we offer a same-day
access for any student for any issue
every day,” Patishnock said. “On
any given day, 50 students walk
in without an appointment and
they either get a brief consultation
or routine screening or crisis
appointment. Then there’s the
continuity of care expectations
meaning that the commissions
here that screen that student will
keep them here if we can. That’s
a significant part of our resources
for students.”
According
to
MSU
CAPS’
website,
initial
visits
take
anywhere from 90 to 120 minutes,
including paperwork and waiting
room
time.
MSU
freshman
Lily
Callis
said
the
walk-in
appointments made it easy for her
to find access to care right away at
MSU CAPS.
“The walk-in is very helpful
when someone is having a crisis
and I think that’s very helpful
to have on campus,” Callis said.
“They typically refer a lot of
students to outside campus help
since there’s so many students.”
MSU CAPS offers referrals
to resources outside of its own
services,
including
hospitals,
therapists and other mental health
professionals in the East Lansing
area MSU has staff members
assign
students
with
these
resources and ensure they are
safe. Patishnock said he sees this
as a solution to the drastic increase
of students seeking mental health
services at MSU CAPS in recent
years.
“Given the total increase in the
number of counselors we had,
we’ve had to refer out a significant
number of students to the local
community,”
Patishnock
said.
“We’ve hired a full-time referral
coordinator and social worker
who meets with students all day
long and helps them get connected
into the community as opposed to
just giving them information to
make sure they don’t get lost.”
At the University of Michigan,
CAPS prefers to keep students
within their counseling center for
mental health issues that can be
solved for short-term counseling.
The CAPS annual report showed
more than 73 percent of clients
attended five or fewer sessions in
the 2018-19 school year.
Since
U-M
CAPS
is
not
designed for long-term mental
health support, less than 1 percent
of students receive more than 20
appointments.
According to Sevig, CAPS has
one care manager who places
students with resources outside of
the organization which they can
access for long-term use.
“One thing we started —
and we were the first in the
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