Many students experience difficult situations and personal concerns while in college. The number of students seeking assistance for mental health concerns has increased significantly in recent years. College can be a stressful time. Balancing all of life’s demands such as coursework, social connections, and family can be overwhelming. The University of Michigan has resources available to assist and support students who are experiencing mental health distress.
The Dean of Students Office is committed to ensuring that students who are parenting have the support and resources to successfully navigate their experience at the University of Michigan.
Learn how you can support students who may be experiencing an interuption in their Michigan experience.
Students may experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. The University offers several types of assistance for students in such special circumstances.
Dean of Students staff members often assist students who are coping with physical illness or injury and mental health conditions that may impact all aspects of student life, academics, housing, relationships, campus activities, and disability needs. Dean of Students staff partner with students to assist them with accepting, accessing, and managing their health care situation.
Many college students experience mental health distress or illness while away from family support. The Dean of Students staff members are able to guide students, parents, spouses, faculty, and staff to a number of supportive options on and off campus.
When a student dies, the Dean of Students Office is involved in a variety of functions in response to the tragedy. Our responsibility extends to the parents/spouse/domestic partner/roommate(s)/close friends of the deceased and to the campus communities impacted by the student’s death. The immediate family directs much of this process with the support of Dean of Students staff.
Please contact our office with information regarding any student death.
The Dean of Students office regularly receives reports of students who have stopped participating in some aspect of campus life or communicating with others. This may be the first indication that the student is coping with a challenging situation that is impacting their university experience or it may mean that the student has chosen to withdraw from campus life or communication for personal reasons.