Your May EAB Briefing Monthly Round-Up: Mental Health Awareness

Greetings!

Welcome to our May newsletter, dedicated to Mental Health Awareness. As we wrap up this month, we’re excited to share valuable resources to help you support both students and fellow staff on campus. From adapting student success technology to creating a healthy culture on campus, we’re sharing essential tools that can help make your institution a more encouraging environment. Let's continue to make mental well-being a priority!

3 quick wins for student mental health and wellness

Institutions often need help meeting the demand for care and are at greater risk of seeing retention and graduation rates fall. However, proven mental health frameworks give us a roadmap for engaging key stakeholders and expanding the capacity for care beyond the counseling center. Access the following insight paper to discover the three “quick win” ideas for adapting student success technology that can help you better address student mental health and wellness immediately.

Need to boost team morale? Try these 6 ideas

If you opened any newspaper or browsed any website in the past year, chances are you were greeted with an article about the college admission process in 2024. And, with all the chaos surrounding us, it can be easy to neglect these challenges’ impact on our internal team members. With summer right around the corner, we’ve got six mood-boosting ideas to invigorate staff morale, celebrate your team members, and re-harness the power of joy.

How mental health plays a role in college decision-making

As high schoolers face mounting mental health challenges, understanding the impact on the enrollment process is increasingly vital. We surveyed nearly 6,000 high school students to shed light on mental health’s role in college decision-making and offer insights on how institutions can effectively adapt their recruitment strategies. Download this resource to explore actionable strategies that will give you a competitive advantage as you respond to this critical development in the enrollment landscape.

Mental health, healing, and leadership

In our April episode of Office Hours with EAB, Paul Gunther hosts a candid conversation with University of British Columbia President, Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, who shares how his personal struggles and healing journey inform his views on leadership and the elements of a healthy organizational culture. Plus, he offers advice to other university leaders who are ready to do the difficult but necessary work of making mental wellness a central focus at their institution. Take a listen to this extraordinary interview now .

The Mental Health Resources Collection for leaders

The spotlight on mental health and well-being is stronger than ever before, and the escalating demand for services has resulted in widespread urgency for institutions to make new strategic investments. Our resource center provides a collection of 20 complimentary resources to support administrators in their efforts to improve mental wellness in students from grade school to grad school. Explore this useful tool to help you drive progress on your institution's mental health initiatives.

Until next time,

The EAB Briefing Team

Looking for more resources from EAB?

Sign up for our full email newsletter! Our editors hand-curate EAB's latest and most relevant content, then send it to you each morning or each week.

Work with us. Reach out to an EAB expert today to discover strategic partnership opportunities that align with your institution’s goals.