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Student Support Services

Updated 6/23/21

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Required talking points

  • Center for Health & Wellbeing provides medical care, mental health care, and lead public health programs on campus.

    • CAPS (Counseling & Psychiatry services)

      • Offers free access to mental health professionals

    • LivingWell

      • Hub of mental wellbeing, located in the Davis Center that can get you connected to other units within the Center for Health and Wellbeing

      • Offer therapy dog Fridays, relaxation room, massages, PB&J during Finals, "Let's Talk", yoga, meditation, and stress management classes.

      • You can also just drop in and use the space!

  • Center for Academic Success

    • Student Accessibility Services​

      • Students with documented disabilities, after connecting with SAS, student can receive accommodations​

      • Accommodations include academic, residential housing-related, dietary, parking

    • Tutoring Center

      • 1 hour of free tutoring for each class per week -- both study skills tutoring & subject area tutoring

      • Peer tutoring model - tutors are students who have taken the same class with the same professor and have done well.

      • Last year, over 50% of the first year class used the Tutoring Center - it is super accessible and open to everyone!

        • This 50% usage includes all of TC programs, like First Year Seminar and Supplemental Instruction and more. Please be mindful about wording; do not say “over 50% of students had a tutoring appointment,” just so it’s reflective of our actual utilization.

      • Supplemental Instruction (SI) is group-based review sessions, led by a knowledgeable student SI Leader. The SI Leader attends class so they are keeping up with the content in real time. Sessions are offered multiple times per week so they fit with everyone's schedule. You can attend as many sessions as you'd like per week!

  • Advising & office hours

    • Students will have an advisor for every major and minor they declare, plus each college offers their own advising programs

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Additional optional talking points

  • More information about signature LivingWell programs​

    • Let’s Talk: drop-in conversations with mental health counselors (note: we do not refer to these as therapy or counseling sessions) offered daily at Living Well and in identity centers.

    • Massages: one of our only services that require appointments, massage therapists come in weekly. (Note: in 2021/22 we are hoping to have the massage therapist alternate between LW and several identity centers but this is not finalized)

    • Mindfulness classes: weekly (free) yoga and mindfulness classes for students, faculty, and staff of all experience levels

    • Mental wellbeing workshops: drop-in groups to help you manage stress, examine your identity, adjust to college, and more. 

    • Student Health Services satellite clinic: held weekly to support certain medical needs (note: TBD for fall 2021)

    • Therapy dogs: weekly visits from Therapy Dogs of Vermont open to all students who miss their pets or want to get some comfort from a furry friend. 

    • Office hours: offered weekly by our substance use team, anti-diet, dietician, and sexual health educator. 

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AdvoCat Stories

  • Advising

    • I came into UVM as an undeclared student without any idea of what I wanted to do. Within the first 3 weeks, I managed to declare and switch my major 4 times. My advisor came to me and asked to sit down and have a meeting and she helped me find 3 different resources to talk to. After talking to those people, I was able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do in terms of direction. I think what I really needed was someone to talk to about all my ideas and my advisor was the person for that. After creating a connection with her, she was able to recognize when I was struggling or not doing really well without me having to say anything. Whether it was related to my personal life or academics, she was fantastic. -Kat Edelmann

    • When I got to UVM I was undeclared so I got randomly assigned an advisor and turns out she was my older sister's advisor who was a senior at the time. This meant I became super close with her right away and even though she is no longer my advisor she still checks in on me regularly. -Jack Mitchell

  • Tutoring Center

    • My first semester as a college student, I started failing French. My professor told me that I needed to go to the tutoring center to try and get caught up, otherwise the rest of the semester would be way too hard. I freaked out. I had always done well in French, I was failing a college class, my professor was requiring me to get help, and I didn't know how it was all going to turn out. I went to the tutoring center and it got worse: I got lost in L&L trying to find the tutoring center, and when I got there, I couldn't figure out how to open the door. I was pulling on it, but it seemed like it was locked. I started sweating and my heart was beating faster, and then I saw a girl from my French class working the front desk. I think I almost fainted with embarrassment. She motioned that it was a push door, and I made it inside, beet red, panicked and embarrassed. I finally made it to my tutor, and he was the nicest person ever. He asked me what I was having trouble with, which parts I wanted to work on, and how often I wanted to come. I showed him some of my grades and we picked some things to work on. He was very patient with me, showed me everything, and helped me pull my grade. back up to an A. I also made it out the door without looking like an idiot after that. I think I became smarter that day. -Jasper Burak​

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