Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom (Opens New Window)How teachers can help combat higher education's mental health crisis. Mental health challenges on college campuses were a huge problem before COVID-19, and now they are even more pronounced. But while much has been written about higher education's mental health crisis, very little research focuses on the role played by those on campus whose influence on student well-being may well be greatest: teachers. Drawing from interviews with students and the scholarship of teaching and learning, this book helps correct the oversight, examining how faculty can—instead of adding to their own significant workloads or duplicating counselors'efforts—combat student stress through adjustments to the work they already do as teachers.
By Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon