This past school year there has been an influx of conversation and programming about mental health on our campus. Those conversations and programs have helped open the minds of students across campus to feel comfortable expressing what our institution could do to help with the mental health crises on college campuses nationally. North Carolina A&T students have asked that our university administration and elected student leaders advocate for an attendance policy that is inclusive of mental and/or emotional health issues that may or may not be officially diagnosed. Absences due to mental and/or emotional health issues should be considered excused and be added as a permissible reason for requesting make up of required work in Section S of the University Student Handbook. The absence would only be excused with a note from the Office of Counseling Services on campus.

 

We have to become a campus who understands that all student success is dependent upon the wellbeing of the mental and emotional health of students. This would be the beginning of becoming a more student friendly campus.