SGA discusses campus mental health resources
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on the SGA’s discussions about student representation, graduate student rights and campus mental health services.
- The News-Letter reported that the SGA discussed electing a student to the Board of Trustees, with Executive Vice President AJ Tsang saying members would begin work on the issue at the end of the semester.
- The paper reported that a possible smoke-free policy could cover all nine schools, but Tsang said it had not been formally proposed and that administrators were still considering enforcement.
- The article says that Teachers and Researchers United representatives Peter Weck and Erini Lambrides discussed plans to unionize TRU, which they announced at a rally the next day.
- The reporter writes that Lambrides described graduate students’ working conditions as affecting undergraduates’ learning and said TRU includes students from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Education.
- According to the article, Sarah K. Cunningham said the University had hired a search firm for a first executive director of Student Disability Services and was expanding access to counseling at Homewood through Chat with a Counselor.
- The paper reported that Counseling Center wait times ranged from 6.5 to 11.5 minutes during the first weeks of classes, and that Cunningham encouraged students to use the Calm app, which offers meditation, music, sleep stories and exercises.