Faculty to receive tips in order to help students
Representatives from the counseling center will be available to the School of Business at the Brown Bag session today.
Sandra Cox, director of the counseling center, will advise faculty on the best ways to handle stressful situations with students.
Three to four Brown Bag sessions take place per semester, said Cheryl Noll, Chair of the school of Business and coordinator of the sessions.
Noll said she coordinated the sessions based on concerns she receives from the faculty.
“It’s informal; we eat our lunch and discuss how to better meet the needs of our students,” she said.
Noll said for each session, she often asks a speaker from another department to come and present and for the staff to ask questions.
She said for the most part, these speakers tend to be about technology or the faculties’ research.
Many of last year’s session also focused on integrative learning.
Cox will advise faculty on how to recognize a student who is distressed and how to appropriately intervene and assist them.
“We have many of these discussions across campus and our hope is to encourage an awareness of recognizing and assisting students in distress,” she said.
Cox will be going over Assisting Students in Distress handbook and talking about the material.
Overall, Noll thinks the session will be a positive experience for all.
“It’s a good way to have intellectual conversations on an informal basis.” Noll said. “It should have a positive experience for the staff and me to interact as well as learn.”
The session will take place in the Lumpkin Hall Atrium from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Faculty can bring their lunch to the session, as in the name “Brown Bag.”
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