Scholar Affairs will increase its wellness sources for college kids throughout the 5 faculties and campus areas and take away fees for sure sources.
The necessity for modifications was a direct results of pupil psychological and bodily well being wants, stated Connie Horton, vp for Scholar Affairs. A September 2021 article from Mayo Clinic discovered round 44% of school college students reported signs of melancholy and nervousness.
The College hopes the brand new mannequin will encourage college students to make the most of sources and take away the barrier of value, Horton stated.
“I hope all through this era, you’ve got skilled that we care for college kids holistically at Pepperdine,” Horton wrote in a March 21 e mail to college students. “We wish you to achieve success academically, definitely, however we additionally care about your well-being spiritually, bodily, emotionally.”
Horton defined the modifications in three elements: An enlargement of on-ground companies, a brand new providing of telehealth companies and the elimination of charges.
On campus, the Scholar Counseling Heart will add to its workers, rising workshops and appointments obtainable to college students.
Moreover, the Scholar Care Group and Title IX workplaces will increase its workers, particularly case managers, Horton stated.
“Case managers on our Scholar Care Group additionally present complimentary assist to college students dealing with extra challenges, and our RISE program affords particular person and group resilience teaching to college students,” Horton wrote. “Every of those necessary psychological well being companies will increase and proceed to be provided freed from cost.”
The College’s telehealth companies will develop, with 24/7 medical telehealth obtainable to college students from wherever in america, Horton stated. College students might obtain medical consideration and schedule appointments for weekends and late hours, one thing the Scholar Well being Heart didn’t supply prior.
The Counseling Heart may also supply telehealth counseling on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The telehealth counseling may also increase the workplace’s variety of counselors — college students can request counselors of particular backgrounds, like LGBTQ+, Horton stated.
Traditionally, Pepperdine charged college students for varied wellness companies on campus. For instance, an initial visit to the SHC value $70 and between $15 and $50 for followups. Campus Recreation charged $75 a semester for group fitness classes. The Counseling Heart offered psychiatric services for an extra charge as effectively.
As an alternative of paying for particular person companies on campus, college students can count on a cost to their pupil accounts known as “Wellness Fee” in the beginning of every time period primarily based on their faculty, location and credit score hours.
Full-time Malibu Seaver college students pays $250 every semester, however won’t pay throughout summer season classes. College students finding out overseas or in Washington, D.C., pays decrease charges — $125 a semester.
A full listing of accessible companies from the Wellness Charge and locational elements might be discovered on the Student Affairs website.
Some issues will nonetheless have an extra value — the SHC will nonetheless cost for x-rays, labs, massages and different extra complicated wants like an ambulance. College students may also pay Campus Recreation’s membership sport charges and, for out of doors journeys and excursions individually.
Horton stated the charge, as utilized as a College cost, ought to be factored into monetary assist packages college students obtain.
The Scholar Life charge stays an additional charge on high of tuition and housing, as that’s associated to Campus Actions, so Seaver college students can count on their $126 cost to stay every semester.
“As we advance Pepperdine’s mission by way of best-in-class pupil wholeness and resilience programming throughout the College, we stay up for higher serving you, our college students, as we study, reside, and share life collectively,” Horton wrote.
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